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Weekend Edition: 6-9

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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.

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Weekend Edition: 6-2

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

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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, […]

Weekend Edition: 5-26

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A Life Worth Ending (“Make no mistake, the purpose of long-term-care insurance is to help finance some of the greatest misery and suffering human beings have yet devised.”) (via)

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The best measure of a fan is not the number of restraining orders against you. […]

Weekend Edition: 5-19

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On Censorship (“Even more serious is the growing acceptance of the don’t-rock-the-boat response to those artists who do rock it, the growing agreement that censorship can be justified when certain interest groups, or genders, or faiths declare themselves affronted by a piece of work.”)

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Weekend Edition: 5-12

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Siouxland Libraries now has a mobile app. I’ve been playing with it for about a week and the speed with which it searches the catalog is quite impressive.

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Nine Dangerous Things You Were Taught In School (“6. Behaving yourself is as important as getting good marks.”)

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