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Weekend marginalia

Minor difficulties with trying to update the look of the site lead in large part to relatively lengthy marginalia. I think those issues are largely resolve now, though, and hope to change the site’s appearance in the immediate future.

Maud Newton has a nice post by Marie Mockett about my favorite bookstore in the world. […]

Midweek marginalia

As I am the only one in my household (other than the dog) who has not read HP7 (I think I dropped off after or about book 4), I’ve had time to gather a few odds and ends from the ether.

One of the best prescriptions I’ve heard about. Gee, really???? (or duh!!!) (Via.) According […]

Midweek marginalia

A Romanian man’s lawsuit against God has been dismissed, in part because God “does not have an address.” (Via.) The Internet Archive has embarked on the ambitious Open Library project with the grand goal of creating an online library every book published. (Via.) While the video (NSFW) could be considered racist, it seems a […]

Catch up marginalia

Because of my trip and the consequences that always flow from being gone, a couple items probably should have been posted before or during my travels.

Ursula Le Guin blasts Slate for describing genre fiction as a “decaying corpse.” July 7 marked the centenary of Robert Heinlein’s birth. There were at least two panels on […]

Delayed marginalia

Saturday’s laptop adventure delayed posting some of this material because, of course, the file that I saved the links in was on the desktop of that computer in a part of the screen I could not see and it would have opened in another part of that area. It is also delayed due to the […]