December 2009
20 posts
“Whatever the future may be, it will be digital. The present is a time of...”
– Robert Darnton
“We are the people of the book. We love our books. We fill our houses with books....”
– How to Destroy the Book, by Cory Doctorow | theVARSITY.ca
“How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?”
– Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle
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Doublecheck your head @...
“For an iPhone 3GS 16GB, necessarily on AT&T, the two-year total would be...”
– Cites & Insights 10:1 - Interesting & Peculiar Products
This makes me very happy to have a “dumb” phone right now, and a cheap monthly bill through T-Mobile (even if I don’t get service at my house).
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“Between 1997 and 2007, per capita visits to public libraries increased...”
– IMLS - News & Events - Press Releases
I think this definitively proves that libraries are not, actually, becoming obsolete because “everything is online.”
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12 Songs of Christmas (8tracks)
Via 8tracks.com - http://8tracks.com/ahniwa/12-songs-of-christmas
Merry Christmas! 12 of my favorite holiday and winter songs:
Harry Connick Jr - Let it snow!
Ray Charles - Baby it’s cold outside
Ella Fitzgerald - Santa Claus is coming to town
Hank Ballard - Santa Claus is coming to town
Elvis Presley - Santa bring my baby back to me
Louis Armstrong - ‘Zat you Santa Claus
...
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“Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How...”
– Arnold Lobel
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“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something...”
– Christopher Morley
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AgeMaps →
Kind of creepy. Very cool.
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Blip.fm | crashsolo | Jeffrey Lewis – If You Shoot... →
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Voices of the Jazz Era Ballroom →
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“MJ: You recently got attacked for calling the Amazon Kindle elitist.
SA: I...”
– Sherman Alexie: Don’t Call Me Warrior (Extended) | Mother Jones
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“Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and...”
– Jean Baudrillard (via harkaway)
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