Gene Weingarten – Corrections: Yanks Thump Sox – washingtonpost.com “How good a copy editor would you be? See how many of the 57 errors of fact, grammar, syntax and style in this column you can catch…” Language Log » The last Bushism? “I can press when there needs to be pressed; I can hold hands [...]
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The Great Seal of Obamaland? – The Caucus – Politics – New York Times Blog –Just above the eagle’s head are the words “Vero Possumus,” roughly translated “Yes we can.”–
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Booksmooch at Deeplinking “It’s enough to send a book hoarder past the point of no return.”
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defective yeti: Typical Reaction to the Revelation That I Do Not Own a Cell Phone, By Year Brand New: Big G Little g, What Begins with Favicon? –Last week, for no apparent reason whatsoever, Google changed its favicon from the uppercase “G” of its logo to its lowercase “g”. And the blogs have gone crazy.– [...]
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Here’s Our New Policy On A.P. stories: They’re Banned – washingtonpost.com –They will “attempt to define clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt without infringing on The A.P.’s copyright.”– [via http://melissawiley.com] The Psychopedia or, How To Do Stuff: Episode 156: How to Exact Revenge “Nothing [...]
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From The American Scholar: One of the great errors of an elite education, then, is that it teaches you to think that measures of intelligence and academic achievement are measures of value in some moral or metaphysical sense. But they’re not. Graduates of elite schools are not more valuable than stupid people, or talentless people, [...]
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The Movie Review: ‘The Happening’ “M. Night Shyamalan’s latest movie, The Happening, is not merely bad. It is an astonishment, so idiotic in conception and inept in execution that, after seeing it, one almost wonders whether it was real or imagined.” Robby Goes to Charlottesville: American Shakespeare Center’s Piercing Eloquence Tour “Another season of the [...]
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Blighted Hopes » American Scientist Review of American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree by Susan Freinkel Moving Image Source via Book of Joe. Looks wonderful. Nudibranchs—Photo Gallery—National Geographic Magazine The bright colors say, “I’m toxic!” globeandmail.com: Unsweet and Lo –Lolita is not just a love story. It is also a [...]
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More good news from JMRL: NEW – Documentary Film Series at Central Library the last Thursday of the month, come view and discuss documentary films on current issues. Light refreshments will be provided. Sign up to be added to the film email list: central@jmrl.org First film Aug 28, 7pm FAUBOURG TREMÉ: THE UNTOLD STORY OF [...]
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