Short article from the BBC Magazine with the usual complaints about Powerpoint, but some hints about what to avoid - that is if you are stuck having to use it: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8207849.stmRead more... )

Hmm, pursuing a rather literary theme today... why not.

Iowa woman who failed to return library book now faces theft charge
Published: Friday, January 23, 2009 | 3:06 PM ET

INDEPENDENCE, Iowa - An Iowa woman has been arrested because she failed to return a library book.
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The Guardian are doing a series of 1000 novels everyone must read. Here's the Science Fiction & Fantasy component. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/22/1000-novels-science-fiction-fantasy-part-one has plot thumbnails for ( Read more... )

The entire staff of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary (all four of them) have been laid off by Oxford University Press due to declining sales of print dictionaries ( Read more... )

Another interesting one, again from nihilistic_kid:
Go to Amazon, find some of your favorite books, and post the most distressing one-star reviews.

I chose Lucky Jim, Class: A guide through the American status system, The Crying of Lot 49, Neuromancer, and Homage to Catalonia. I did not pick anything by J.G. Ballard of course, that's too easy - you either ( Read more... )

An interesting interview with Margaret MacMillan, author of the abovementioned book (and Paris 1919, somethign I have to get around to reading one day ( Read more... )

From the altfriday5:

1. Do you read for recreation?
Oh yes.

2. What sorts of things do you read? Fiction? Nonfiction? What category or genre? Long pieces? Short? Books? Magazines? Web pages?Non-fiction: history or military affairs, I also like memoirs of ordinary soldiers. Fiction: SF from my favourite writers (J.G. Ballard, William Gibson, Theodore ( Read more... )

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Yoinked from happiestsadist and sabotabby.

"These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users. Bold what you have read, italicize those you started but couldn't/didn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. Add an asterisk to those you've read more than once. Underline those on your to-read list."

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Boring day, but I'm glad it's not as hot as it was yesterday. It hurt to peel myself off the seat at the end of yesterday. Now it looks as if it might rain ( Read more... )