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Weekend Edition: 8-13

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

What Jock Culture Does To Pukes Like You (“Jock Culture is a distortion of sports. It can be physically and mentally unhealthy, driving people apart instead of together. It is fueled by greed and desperate competition.”) (via)

The History of Torture—Why We Can’t Give It Up (“Torture by […]

Weekend Edition: 8-6

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Borders Closings Are Another Step Towards Community Isolation (“In our technology dominated lives, the bookstore is one of the few places where there is a sense of community and interpersonal interaction, where people with a shared passion can meet.”)

Blog Headline of the Week

Snooki’s book not one of […]

Weekend Edition: 7-30

Bulletin Board

Do Nothing But Read Day is set for Saturday, August 6. Although I believe they frequently amount to the same thing, the requirements are: (1) you have to read, and (2) you have to enjoy yourself. Accordingly, the DNBR crest is being added to the right sidebar.

It seems standing up for […]

Weekend Edition: 7-23

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Farmageddon (“If you long for the days of an agrarian based democracy and family life on the farm, you have to buy Terry Redlin prints to capture the time. If it ever really existed.”)

Rescuing Books (“Being told to keep two copies of a book in stock and […]

Weekend Edition: 7-16

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

The Menace Within (“No behavioral research that puts people in that kind of setting can ever be done again in America.” (via)

The Death of NASA and the iPad (“Do you really think a great future exists because we can check our emails anywhere, or watch television shows […]