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Weekend Edition: 8-18

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Prog Spring (“The death of real rock ‘n’ roll began one morning in 1964, at the Organ Center in the southern England city of Portsmouth.”)

What some people call idleness is often the best investment (“The cult of busyness extends far beyond grumpy bosses and line managers. It […]

Weekend Edition: 8-11

Bulletin Board

The State Historical Society has made the first 32 years of South Dakota History available online at no charge.

Blog Lines of the Week

“I don’t really view the world in ‘glass half full’ or ‘glass half empty’ dichotomies. In my world the glass is always cracked and leaking.“

Bookish Linkage

How fiction […]

Weekend Edition: 8-4

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Americans Want to Live in a Much More Equal Country (They Just Don’t Realize It)(“In fact, the vast majority of Americans prefer a distribution of wealth more equal than what exists in Sweden, which is often placed rhetorically at the extreme far left in terms of political ideology–embraced by […]

Weekend Edition: 7-28

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

We Are Alive (“…you cannot underestimate the fine power of self-loathing in all of this.”)

Bookish Linkage

Literacy gap between rich and poor studies widens in the summer (via)

How reading makes you more human

Ten books to put hair on your chest

Clifford the Big […]

Weekend Edition: 7-21

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

The Bookless Library (“Clinging to an outdated vision of libraries is in fact the best recipe for making them look hopelessly obsolescent to the men and women who control their budgets[.]”)

Worthwhile Reading about Aurora

One More Massacre (“The truth is made worse by the reality that no one—really […]