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Weekend Edition: 6-18

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Invasion of the body hackers (“Footsteps, sweat, caffeine, memories, stress, even sex and dating habits – it can all be calculated and scored like a baseball batting average. And if there isn’t already an app or a device for tracking it, one will probably appear in the next few […]

Weekend Edition: 6-11

Worthwhile Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Ode to a Four-Letter Word (“There is, after all, no such thing as an intrinsically bad, boring, or lazy word. There is only how it is deployed, and one of the pleasures of profanity is how diversely you can deploy it.”) (via)

Blog Headline of the Week

Apparently, God […]

Weekend Edition: 6-4

Too many hours on airplanes and in airports leads to an abbreviated edition:

Blog Headline of the Week

Boy Wishes He Hadn’t Sold His Kidney For An iPad 2

Bookish Linkage

A library is many things

Nonbookish Linkage

Persons with the most optimism and cheerfulness die younger than their less positive counterparts. Serves them right, […]

Weekend Edition: 5-28

Blog Headline of the Week

Important physics breakthrough solves the mystery of how dogs drink

Happy Birthday Bob Linkage

Dylan’s 70 Years of Trouble

How Bob Dylan reinvented the rock memoir

Busy Being Born

Dylan at 70

Bob Dylan’s Curious Dotage (via)

Free Bob from the Bobolator cult

Bookish Linkage

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Weekend Edition: 5-21

Bulletin Board

Travel means a more narrowly focused edition this week. In fact, it should probably be called Apocalypse Edition.

Well, if you’re reading this evidently the world hasn’t ended — yet.

Bookish Linkage

How to Enjoy the Apocalypse: A Post-Rapture Reading List

End of Days book list

Literature for the Apocalypse: […]