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Weekend Edition: 6-30

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

The Perfect Listen (“It’s usually anywhere between the second and fifth listen that fragments that maybe weren’t evident on first glance suddenly come at you or your brain makes a connection that could only have been made indirectly. That’s when a song start to mean something to you.”)

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Weekend Edition: 6-23

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

In Praise of Leisure (“The irony, however, is that now that we have at last achieved abundance, the habits bred into us by capitalism have left us incapable of enjoying it properly.”) (via)

Bookish Linkage

Books that shaped America

Ten life lessons we learned from children’s books

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Weekend Edition: 6-16

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

40 years after Watergate, Nixon was far worse than we thought (“All reflected a mind-set and a pattern of behavior that were uniquely and pervasively Nixon’s: a willingness to disregard the law for political advantage, and a quest for dirt and secrets about his opponents as an organizing principle […]

Weekend Edition: 6-9

Bulletin Board

The interwebs are full of tributes to Ray Bradbury. I will offer just a remembrance. Of the hundreds of books I’ve read in my life, I can still remember sitting and reading The Illustrated Man in a particular room in my long since razed junior high school.

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

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Weekend Edition: 6-2

Bulletin Board

Construction began yesterday and the official groundbreaking is Monday for the new Prairie West branch library about a mile from my house.

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

The Amazon Effect (“Consider the millions who are buying those modern Aladdin’s lamps called e-readers. These magical devices, ever more beautiful and nimble in design, […]