Wikipedia allows anonymous edits but it does track the IP of anyone who makes the edit. So a Cal-Tech computer grad student, inspired by news last year that
How Swearing Works BBC’s List of Most Offensive Words (in ranked order) Urban Dictionary – a user-created dictionary of slang including many offensive terms. Great for understanding the
Instead of relying on your friendly local library (who, let’s be honest, often has a policy of not letting patrons know about overdue books until, well, until they’re
“In 1994, over 70 percent of total fiction sales were accounted for by a mere five authors.” Just in time for the biggest book release in the history
The author of the popular Freakonomics book looks at the question, “If public libraries didn’t exist, could you start one today?” “But here’s the point I’m (finally) getting
The worldwide series of concerts known as Live Earth have started today in Australia and Japan and will be moving around the world for the next 24 hours.
On late night TV talk shows, every show begins with the host inevitably saying something like “We’ve got a really good show for you tonight!” whether the guest
In keeping with the topic of the day over at my other most favourite site on the Internet, LibrarianActivist, here’s a report on internet filtering from the National
I had this ready to go yesterday but never got near a computer to post it. So I'm backdating to Friday and life goes on… “The Prelinger Library
A bookseller writes in Library Quarterly about how librarians are the enemies of books – marking them up with tape, stamps and glue, getting rid of unwanted and
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