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Books I Have Out From the Library Right Now

There's a difference between lists of “Books I'm Reading” and “Books I Have Out From the Library”.  This is because I tend to take out a lot of

Friday Fun Link – Spreeder – Online Speed Reading Application (Aug 22, 2008)

In undergrad, I went to a speed reading seminar put on by the Psych Students Association.  Basically, the instructor said that if you just kept training yourself to

Link Dump

I'm getting so many tabs open in Firefox that it's time for a patented Jason Hammond Link Dump.  (That sounds awful.  I should come up with a better

Author Offers IPO

Author offers IPO to raise funds to help him write his second novel with 60% of royalties as the reward.  The story also contains a link to an oldie

E-Books, DRM and Other Things That Suck

From the “no duh!” files, the Library of Congress has come out officially as saying that Digital Rights Management is a serious obstacle to archiving materials.But copyright law

Several Lessons To Be Learned From the Finnish School System

I first became aware of the best-in-the-world ranking of Finnish schools in the excellent book, “Under Pressure: Rescuing Childhood from the Culture of Hyper Parenting” by Carl Honore. 

The Ultimate Guide to Copyright Terms and The Public Domain

(Er, except this list is for the United States)   Still interesting though.(via MetaFilter)

Link Dump – Middle of the Night Version

I'm not sure if I put Pace to sleep tonight or he put me to sleep but at 8pm, we were both in bed, crashed out.  So that

So You Wanna Write A Memoir? – An Exhaustive Guide

Entertainment Weekly magazine is one of my guilty pleasures.  In fact, I had a subscription to it in the early 1990's right after it began publication.  And I

Friday Fun Link – 50 Best Cult Books (June 27, 2008)

“What is a cult book? We tried and failed to arrive at a definition: books often found in the pockets of murderers; books that you take very seriously

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