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Friday Follies 2.30

An Arizona attorney is being suspended because, among other things, she told a client the spirit of his deceased wife was “inside” her, allowing her to communicate the wife’s thoughts to him.

A Wisconsin man shot a hole in the floor of his house when he tried to shoot an alien he had seen in […]

Weekend Edition: 8-28

Worthy Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Google’s Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars (“In short, Google has taken a group of the world’s great research collections and returned them in the form of a suburban-mall bookstore.”) (via)

Building a Nation of Know-Nothings (“It’s one thing to forget the past, with predictable consequences, as the […]

Weekend Edition: 8-21

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This week’s review of Our Tragic Universe made the Noteworthy Content of the Week at the official blog of 9rules.

Worthy Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Ten things I know about the mosque (“The instinctive response of Americans should have been the same as President Obama’s: Muslims have every right to build there. […]

Friday Follies 2.28

A federal judge is allowing a lawsuit by a Hawaii man against the publisher of an online virtual-world game go forward. The lawsuit alleges the man became so addicted to the game that he is “unable to function independently in usual daily activities such as getting up, getting dressed, bathing or communicating with family and […]

Weekend Edition: 8-14

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I should have mentioned it before since it ended with July but I did not succeed with the Random Reading Challenge. I made it 75 percent of the way there but under the grading standards in the local schools that’s a “D”. Even the host, Caribousmom, also didn’t make her goal. And, sadly, […]