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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 […]

Friday Follies 3.14

Federal appeals court says a lawsuit by “a disgruntled cheerleader mom” over whether her daughter should have made the cheer squad is no more than “a petty squabble … that has no place in federal court or any other court.” And don’t miss the footnote on the last page of the opinion. (via)

Meanwhile, the […]

Weekend Edition: 7-9

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The blog is in the Book Blogs Search Engine, albeit one of around 1,600. Still, thanks to Fyrefly.

Bookish Linkage

It’s hard to believe that Project Gutenberg is 40 years old.

How Harry Potter saved reading.

Reading romance novels may be hazardous to a woman’s love life. (via)

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Weekend Edition: 7-2

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The 2011 South Dakota Festival of Books has released the schedule for the event, set for October 7-9 in Deadwood.

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Bruce Springsteen’s Eulogy for Clarence Clemons (“Clarence doesn’t leave the E Street Band when he dies. He leaves when we die.”)

The people who built Utopia […]

Friday Follies 3.13

A Kansas City grocery store is being sued because one of its employees shoved his hand down her pants and grabbed her breast — and the nearby cashier said, “he has been doing that all day.”

Houston lawyer responds to middle school kids’ video dissing his daughter with cease-and-desist letters and lawsuit.

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