I got a package Wednesday in my drop box, and since I hadn’t ordered anything I was sorta surprised. Upon opening I found I had gotten a book and a 2 sheet write up about the book from Soap Net, The Soap Opera network. Now I love to read, and I’m not to [...]
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If you look at a lot of the fear-mongering stories about children and video games, one of the big ones is the idea that kids are just sitting around getting fat playing video games, rather than going outside and getting some exercise by playing. Of course, it might make you wonder why the same fear [...]
I’ve been trying to keep up to date what books I’ve read and so forth, but I realized I hadn’t been writing reviews. So I quickly went through and wrote some short reviews on the books. Feel free to let me know if you read one and wanted me to expand upon my thoughts. Since [...]
The local library system has a Friends of the Library and every few months they hold a book sale. During this multi-week (weekend) book sale they have a bag of book sale. So for $3 you can fill a bag up as much as possible with books and at the same time add [...]
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Harry Potter has entered the dreams of his creator, J.K. Rowling, for the first time, and the British author feels both elated and stressed about completing the seventh and final installment of the hit book series.
But in the latest diary entry on her official Web site (www.jkrowling.com), Rowling gives no hard clues as to what [...]
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The Lie: Lemmings commit suicide en masse.
The Truth: Lemmings are stupid, not depressed. The myth of lemming suicide goes back a long way - at least to Freud, who in Civilization and Its Discontents (1929) examined the human death instinct in the context of the purported mass suicide of lemmings. But suicidal lemmings didn’t fully [...]
Computer E Book (ebook) Listing
This page has links to over 9838 e books, or about 78GB of data, please enjoy.
I have to say that this listing is huge. If there is a computer related question you wanted reading material on… this site has it listed. There are educational books on every language I’ve heard of… [...]
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Official Google Blog: The Literacy Project
In India, a country saddled with one-third of the world’s literacy problem, there are nearly 300 million people who are illiterate and 400 million who have only a rudimentary knowledge of the alphabet. That’s 700 million people who cannot read even a newspaper headline.
As I wrote in December, PlanetRead employs [...]
Rands In Repose: Trickle Theory
Back at the start-up, we were shifting gears. After six months of talking about shipping a product, we needed to ship a product and nothing gets everyone’s attention like a deadline. The good news was that QA had been doing its job and there was a pile of work in our [...]
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Official Google Blog: Celebrate your freedom to read
What was your favorite book when you were in school? Did F. Scott Fitzgerald give you an inside look at a world of glamorous parties where the wealthy fell in love and went home with their feelings hurt? Did Holden Caulfield speak directly to your inner misanthrope? For [...]
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