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The Bat Segundo Show: Brent Spiner : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits "Brent Spiner appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #233. Spiner is most recently a producer and performer on the album, Dreamland." You might remember Spiner as Potata on the hit syndicated series, "Car Wreck." Social Networking for Books: One Ring, or Loosely Joined? – [...]
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Monday 28 August 1665 (Pepys' Diary) — The plague worsens "Up, and being ready I out to Mr. Colvill, the goldsmith’s, having not for some days been in the streets; but now how few people I see, and those looking like people that had taken leave of the world." The Glass Menage a Trois (Adventures [...]
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O'Reilly on Amazon/Shelfari: Web 2.0 Consolidation Begins – mediabistro.com: GalleyCat "What if all the other social networks dedicated to books banded together and let their users communicate with each other over the fence, as it were?" Heaven on earth, as it were. Language Log » Moist aversion: the cartoon version "Rob Harrell's Big Top comic [...]
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September BookBalloon reading club selection: Gaudy Night, by Dorothy L. Sayers This delightful “whodunit” unfolds at the all-female Shrewsbury College at Oxford. It features Harriet Vane, a returned alumna and mystery writer and Lord Peter Wimsey, noted detective and sometime boyfriend of Ms. Vane. Discussion begins Sept. 8! If you’re already a registered member, click [...]
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Maud Newton: Blog “For the seven others out there who might have interest in collecting fragments of one of the great epic poems of the English language in 1-2 small shards a day: here’s my Twittered Paradise Lost.” –Count me in! You can follow too, at http://twitter.com/paradiselost Storyglossia: Storyglossia Issue 29 has Published Editor Steven [...]
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Tim at LibraryThing contemplates the future, now that Amazon has acquired Shelfari: Any any case, once the Amazon/Shelfari deal goes through, we are competing against Amazon. The second element, as many also know, is that Amazon recently announced its intention to acquire Abebooks, the Canadian used-books aggregator that owns 40% of LibraryThing. The acquisiton will [...]
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Tod Goldberg: These Are Field Recordings Actual transcripts of conversations with "fans." Funny, yet depressing. Textorizer II "Texturizer II is a tool that takes a picture, and creates another picture that looks like the original one but made by writing text." Via Book of Joe. paperpools: post-Socratics The difficulty of responding to critics: DeWitt vs. [...]
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Renaissance paintings were the blockbusters of their days. Inclusion in a great work of art meant fame and immortality for the subjects. But really, given the option, don’t you think most of these subjects would prefer to be in motion pictures instead? Well, it doesn’t matter what you think, because that’s the premise we’re going [...]
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New illustrated Wizard of Oz Pdf — courtesy softskull.com.
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Blogging the Media: Napster for Magazines More more more on Mygazines: "It was only a matter of time: Mygazines features "member-scanned full digital copies of magazines, which can be browsed, shared, archived and even re-assembled to create aptly-named 'mygazines'" reports The Wikinomics Blog, and the site is hosted by the same company that hosts The [...]
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Language Log » Minor writers, revolt! "The eminent… early 20th-century American grammarian George O. Curme made a detailed study of the literary history of the split infinitive, and amassed a collection of hundreds and hundreds of examples. Some of his findings… are set forth in his book Syntax (1931), which forms Part III of his [...]
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