There are numerous ongoing examples of governments and political institutions preventing the sharing of information – often in the name of “security” but often, more accurately, in the name of “not being…
A few links about where the place where writing, publishing and selling controversial books intersects… In a post about Chapters deciding to not stock Mein Kampf during FTRW
We screened a few films during library school that either had a library theme (Party Girl) or that somehow related to library issues. One that we showed which
Time for my annual weekly series of posts for Freedom to Read Week. (Yay!) I’ll start with a great response from a YA novelist to a parent who
Today’s the second ever Heritage Classic outdoor hockey game (Heritage Classic is in Canada – there’s also an annual outdoor game/marketing bonanza in the US called the Winter
The Best Part of Shaving The Winter Beard, originally uploaded by headtale. …is getting to carve out all manner of redneck, yokel and classic facial hair styles as
If you’re like me, you have contacts all over the place – on your home computer, on your work computer, on your smart phone, on a notepad by
This is sort of an extension of an earlier post on “What is the One Defining Quality of Desirable Employees?” where I claimed that optimism trumped all. I
No, that post title is not a joke. (Well, mostly not a joke.) The reality is that I’m only slightly ashamed to admit that I find Justin Bieber
A generation ago, one of the biggest insurmountable challenges in computing was writing a chess program that could beat the world’s best human player. That eventually happened in
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