For how demonized some albums are, when you cut it down to just the “bad” parts, it really puts things in perspective. 19 seconds. 42 seconds. 29 seconds. 0 seconds. 10 seconds.(via MetaFilter)
I thought somebody (the CLA Committee on Intellectual Freedom?) released an annual report on book challenges during the past year. I wasn't able to find it but the official site for Freedom to Read does have a list highlighting 100 different books that have been challenged in the past decade. One entry in particular caught […]
It's not book related but nothing says Freedom of Expression like the newest buzz site of the Internet, ChatRoulette. The site is exactly what it says – you hit the site and you see a chat window for yourself and one for a random person somewhere in the world. As soon as you get bored […]
German copyright law grants an author copyright for 70 years after their death. Hitler died in 1945 so that means “Mein Kampf” will enter the public domain in that country in 2015. Or will it? There is a well-known German law banning the dissemination of Nazi ideologies which was put in place after the […]
So yeah…I was trying to think of a good clip to feature for Music Monday now that it's Freedom to Read Week. I thought about posting Elvis' infamous early Milton Berle appearance which led to him only being filmed from the waist up when he later appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show. But that's pretty […]
It's extremely rare that you'll hear me advocating for a book to be challenged. But as my former classmate (and published author) Corey Redekop asks in his post on this year's Freedom to Read Week celebrations: “could you challenge me? Call a library and demand that I be taken off the shelves? Nothing sells a […]
Freedom to Read Week beings tomorrow. Flickr has lots of photos (including displays from libraries around the world) to get you in the mood! Plus you might even happen across a library colleague who bears a striking resemblance to a young Malcolm MacDowell in his FTRW shoot!
The BC Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Committee has an unofficial blog with lots of good reading. (I was going to title this post “The only BC-related post you'll read on a blog this week that doesn't mention the Olympics.” But then I realised that this would be like the Hawthorne Effect of blogs. )
I know I could get my entire month's worth of Freedom to Read Week Month “Music Monday” clips out of this list but I'll post them as a group since that's how I found them.
Looking for a good date movie? I'm just kidding but this list of “Films That Most Frequently Use The Word 'Fuck'” does remind me of a funny anecdote from my youth. A friend had introduced me to “Reservoir Dogs” soon after it came out on video and I quickly became a Tarantino junkie. When I […]
