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The directors of the new Alexandria Library, which christened a steel and glass structure with 250,000 books in October, have joined forces with an American artist and software engineers in an ambitious effort to make virtually all of the world's books available at a mouse click.
CMJ scandal (from dmtree friend brian)
more from the ny post
But most importantly, bubbles make people happy. (Anakin is part of the disorient burning man crew.)
would you be mine, could you be mine, wont you be my neighbor?
Hey Steve, did you get a gig designing graphics for the new homeland security site?
Scary interview with Sy Hersh on Now with Bill Moyers. Pakistan sharing nuke tech with North Korea, others?
This story is begging for some Dem spin.
Virtual March on Washington.
MoveOn.org is hosting the online action center for the Virtual March on Washington on February 26th, sponsored by The Win Without War Coalition. Please register here to join us.
One of my nephews joined the army reserve out of high school about a year and a half ago, for the free college education. He's been called to Kuwait, stopping briefly in Virginia for last minute training. I guess the show is on.
Mike emailed this fun link to me.
I'm not sure if this means anything, but coincidence is always intriguing, and I almost posted this, and now since Frank's given me another opening… Anyway, I'll do it here, to avoid trolling for trolls…
So my mother (who, unlike me, actually reads contemporary poetry) sent me (hardcopy, via USPS) a poem she thought I'd like, about birds and love and such. It was by Anthony Hecht. I couldn't really place him, though the name was vaguely familiar, but immediately thereafter I was following a search from my referrer log which led to a page of "literary symbiosis": parodies, symbionts, retellings, etc. There I found a poem I'd long recalled, though I'd read it many years ago and had forgotten the poet. Of course, it was by Hecht. The poem is The Dover Bitch, which gives a third party version of Matthew Arnold's Dover Beach, with an appreciation of the girl's point of view. This had nothing to do with the search, which was for Sumer is Icumen in, but in view of the current weather you should check out Ezra Pound's wicked winterizing of that old lyric, appearing on the same page. If you know what this all adds up to, you can tell me.
anyone bump into the rumored aerial photo of last saturday's protest rally ?
Artforum mentions blogs (not very interesting, but I thought Tom should see.)
virtually free hiptops at amazon. is it worth it?
the local news this morning mentioned the possibility of snow. anybody know anything about that?
Mike and Linda, that was some fun, thanks.
finally a place i can be comfortable just being me. meet you out back at the cowshed.
google buys blogger
goodbye dolly