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So much serious stuff to worry about; time for the London lit crit approach to political commentary: Honorary Ladettes R Us Posted by B...

Not being a fan of the telephone, and noting the near universal usage of cell phones in every public venue, it strikes me as appropriate t...

There's an article on Stanley Associates in the Techworking column of the Business section in today's Washington Post. Stanley has ...

Google is trying out a new search aid called " Google Suggest ." As you type your search term, the program opens a list of possib...

Word origins matter. Sometime toward the end of my four years in high school Eric Partridge's book Origins became a favorite possessio...

A favorite blogger, Tim Bray , spent some years working for publishers of encyclopedias and dictionaries. He says: I spent three years full-...

There's a new biography of Christopher Isherwood. See this link for a nice long review article in LAWeekly. The book: Isherwood:...

We found these glass disks in a box up in the attic. I can't recall their origin, probably my VISTA days in East St. Louis in the late ...

Chinese economic policy is in the news again. James K. Galbraith has an interesing piece in Newsday on the decline of the dollar. His take...

I've written about Tim Bray before . As I said then, he is one of the creators of the xml internet language and a leading proponent of o...

Laura , who holds a Master's degree in Library Science and has worked in school libraries, is head of the Laura Bush Foundation for Amer...

Nick and Julia are finishing up their semesters; lots of papers and a couple of exams. Here's a teacher's view of this end-of-semes...

The library blog world has been discussing a cable movie called "The Librarian: Quest for the Spear," which one librarian says was...

Below, I've put a link to an article in today's Washington Post giving a small lesson in global economics, using bicycle manufacturi...

For Julia, from Crooked Timber: December 02, 2004 Xmas specials Posted by Henry Via About Last Night , SF author John Scalzi presen...

The British Council recently asked people who are not native-English speakers to list the most beautiful words in the English language. Her...

More to add to the chorus of experts sounding alarms about U.S. deficits and the falling dollar. "On Monday [Nov 22], Morgan Stanl...

Can you resist this teaser from ArtsJournal? When Was America Turned Over To The Crackpots, Eh? As viewed from Canada, America's new ...

These are from World War I (Verdum artillery shells), but may be appropriate for the neo-cons and Iraq war hawks on your Christmas list. Th...