Bulletin Board
- Best wishes to Bob Mercer as he recovers from a health problem (and learned how good medical care is in SD)
Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
- Blinded by the war on terrorism (“Demanding zero risk of terrorism at home, moreover, makes it easier for terrorists to succeed. If the bar is set at zero, then a single successful attack means the terrorists have triumphed.”) (via)
Blog Headline of the Week
Blog Line of the Week
- “Last Monday, growing internet force Buzzfeed rolled out their new Books page, thereby ruining books for everyone, everywhere, for the rest of human history.”
Why Even I Sometimes Hate Lawyers
- A Pennsylvania lawyer has been suspended after admitting he accepted oral sex as a fee for representing a client in a DUI case.
Bookish Linkage
- How online publishing impacts national libraries, such as the Library of Congress
- Victoria Best ponders reading slumps
- How important is Rexa Aslan’s Zealot? (I read it before the Fox News interview exploded and while it doesn’t break new ground I recommend it.)
- London firefighters have linked increasing calls about people trapped in handcuffs to the popularity of “mummy porn“
Nonbookish Linkage
- Part of the sun is missing
- A retired Illinois doctor paid part of a legal settlement with four tons of quarters
- It looks like the spirit of Omni magazine may be returning with Omni Reboot, an online publication scheduled to launch next week
- Ten beautiful medieval maps
My struggles with myself seldom reach aerobic level.
Mason Cooley
