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10th anniversary: In blog years I’m dead

It’s a t-shirt I’ve always wanted. It said, “In dog years, I’m dead.” I’m starting to think the same thing applies to blogs.

Today is the 10th anniversary of this blog. Certainly, it’s not the oldest blog out there and it has changed focus over time. But it seems to have outlasted many. How long […]

Weekend Edition: 9-8

Bulletin Board

This is a sort of double edition as travel before and during the Labor Day weekend kept me from posting last Saturday. Thus, a couple items are a bit older than usual.

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

The village where people have dementia ā€“ and fun (“It’s not the sort of slow, […]

Some depressing news about children and reading

The U.K.’s National Literary Trust today released a report on children’s reading. And while the 21,000 kids who participated in the online survey, conducted late last year, were all from the U.K., there’s some very sad news in it.

No one probably would be surprised that it found that more children (54%) prefer watching television […]

Weekend Edition: 8-25

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Dear Mr. Akin, I Want You to Imagine… (“Did you honestly believe that rape sperm is different than love sperm, that some mysterious religious process occurs and rape sperm self-destructs due to its evil content?”) (via)

Bookish Linkage

Where do dead books go? (via)

Sam Sacks is against […]

Weekend Edition: 8-18

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Prog Spring (“The death of real rock ā€˜nā€™ roll began one morning in 1964, at the Organ Center in the southern England city of Portsmouth.”)

What some people call idleness is often the best investment (“The cult of busyness extends far beyond grumpy bosses and line managers. It […]