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Weekend Edition: 9-17

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Siouxland Libraries is today celebrating its 125th anniversary.

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Jon Stewart and the Burden of History (“Now, you have to understand Jon Stewart is just like everybody else: He can be a dick.”)

The Dark Side of the Placebo Effect: When Intense Belief Kills (“Laotian immigrants of […]

Weekend Edition: 9-10

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Because I agree with Charlie there are no 9/11 links today.

Blog Headline of the Week

Geodog For Android Tracks Your Canine’s GPS Collar, Costs More Than The Dog

Bookish Linkage

It’s nice to know that Banned Books Week “is an exercise in propaganda.” If you have any doubts, just ask Arthur Conan […]

Weekend Edition: 9-3

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Proof this is the first summer we’ve been empty nesters? I hit 100 books read for the year last Saturday.

The blog will see its eighth anniversary on Friday.

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

The Black Hole of 9/11 (“9/11, for all its tragic and heroic drama, is an easy event […]

Weekend Edition: 8-27

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Chapter and verse on why readers get a benefit from their novel experiences (“…people who spend every spare moment with their nose stuck in a novel are actually better at both relationships with others and understanding of the world in general than those who don’t read much or whose […]

Weekend Edition: 8-20

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In addition to the five book reviews posted here over the last 10 days or so, I’ve got a review of The Boomer’s Guide to Story over at Cinema Sentries.

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Bearing the Cost of War (“Since 9/11, no national leaders have proposed that the country actually pay […]