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Weekend Edition: 4-13

Bulletin Board

The Digital Public Library of America opens Thursday

National Library Week starts tomorrow so make it a point next week to thank library workers

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

The white man Jesus (“Questions of race and identity have now become inescapable elements of any public presentation of the Bible.”)

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Weekend Edition: 4-6

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Seeing and believing (“A large element of rationalist doubt certainly accompanies the decline of interest in the paranormal, driven primarily by … cultural and, latterly, technological factors. Yet underlying that doubt itself is the growing incredulity with which people evaluate anything.”)

Blog Headline of the Week

Women have written […]

Weekend Edition: 3-30

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

My day at Westboro Baptist: “Yes, Jesus hates you” (“Few things irk Westboro’s members more than the widespread belief, even beyond the church, that Christ was a sweet, all-loving man. God does not actually love everyone, they say, only those whom He chose for heaven.”)

“Most contemporary literary […]

Weekend Edition: 3-23

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

The Last Letter (” I write this letter on behalf of us all—the human detritus your war has left behind, those who will spend their lives in unending pain and grief.”) (via)

Voices from Solitary: A Sentence Worse Than Death (“What nobody knew or suspected back then, not […]

Weekend Edition: 3-16

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

You can’t get this book from Amazon (“If books are part of the soul of any house, then bookshops are the equivalent for a town.”)

Blog Headlines of the Week

Estonian man returns library book 69 years late, blames WWII

Traffic Engineers Strike Back at Topless Women Boaters […]