If you're like me, you spend all your time wondering “What's it like to be a celebrity in today's day and age with your name splashed all over, not just TV, print and other traditional media, but on literally millions of sites across the Internet, large and small?” Also, “what does George Clooney think of […]
Book beer pairings sees authors suggesting brews that are best enjoyed with their work. What brews go with your favourite books – a very important question for the ages.In semi-related news, the next “Books to Beers and Stacks to Snacks” social gathering will happen following the final day of the SLA conference, Saturday May 3 […]
How many of the following do you know?Aglet. Bollard. Dingbat. Ferrule. Keeper. Kerf. Punt (or kick). Philtrum. Phosphenes. Tragus.I knew exactly one and somewhat unsurprisingly, it was “dingbat”. (As an aside, there is a book called “The Joy of Lex” that was one of my absolute favourites as a kid. If you're a fan […]
A new site, Brijit provides 100 word summaries of magazine articles in a number of categories. Sort of a MetaFilter for magazines and you guessed it…via MetaFilter.
Continuing my trend of posting contrarian viewpoints on major Christian holidays, here's a piece on why atheists get angry and frustrated with believers. (But I am glad to have a long weekend so thanks for that and the chocolate eggs, Jeebus! )
It threw me a bit to be typing a random list of common English words rather than the more usual sentences and paragraphs but I did okay on this site's typing test – one of many available online. When I've done other typing tests, both online and in the real world, I get anywhere from […]
You know it's a hard core list when the Library of Congress only ranks an “honourable mention”. Ranking the World's Best Digital Libraries
Borders and Lulu.com have teamed up to create Border's Lifestyle, a new service allowing anyone to design and publish their own book and have it distributed through Borders stores, even including your own book tour and in-store readings. Is it, according to Ben Vershbow of if:book, “bringing vanity publishing to a whole new level of […]
I was going to link to a list of the symptoms of severe food poisoning and leave off at that. But after sleeping sixteen hours out of the last twenty-four (I won't get too graphic about how I spent the other eight hours but you can imagine… …I'm feeling a bit better so I decided […]
