You know, I never thought I’d find myself in the position of defending Wikipedia - I’m a pretty light contributor there, and not what might be called a Wikipedian, but here’s Dave with more in his rant against Wikipedia:
“Now of course I want to know who said that. See the problem? Same set of facts, […]
“The question of death is also the question of life, panditji, and the question of how to live is also the question of love. That is the question you have to go on answering, to which there is no answer excpet in the going on.”
from Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
Richard Stallman has taken up arms against the Canadian injuctions focussing on the 14 people who were sold Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince before it’s official publication date.
This is far from a “human rights” issue, as Stallman tries to frame it, and it’s essentially a tempest in a teapot. To attempt to slant […]
Well, after a rough day of waiting (and realizing that I had supplied the wrong address to the Amazonobots - meaning that it wouldn’t be delivered to my office until Monday instead of to my house today), we finally went to Barnes and Noble and picked up a copy of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood […]
Dracula Blogged: About this blog project
Not the first time something like this has been done, I think, but pretty cool nonetheless. I may have to catch up and read along….
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An Leabhar Mòr - The Great Book of Gaelic in Archipelago.
Volume 7, Number 3 of Archipelago has a wonderful online sampling of An Leabhar Mòr, a work reminiscent of the Book of Kells. It is a collection of 100 examples of Gaelic poetry from the 6th to the 21st centuries. 20 of the […]
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