February 2012
25 posts
On the Partial-Care Health Care Provider debate.
I think if health care providers wish to transition their institutions from full-care to partial-care so they may avoid using medicines and techniques that they feel superstitious about, then we should let them. And as long as we have a clear distinction between full-care institutions and partial-care institutions, a unmistakable indication of whether a hospital uses medicine or traditional...
Penguin Group Terminating Its Contract with... →
libraryjournal:
In a stunning development, Penguin Group has extricated itself from its contract with OverDrive, the primary supplier of ebooks to public libraries.
Starting February 10, Penguin, which had recently instituted limitations on library lending for ebooks and audiobooks, will now no longer offer any ebooks or audiobooks through OverDrive.
“Looking ahead, we are continuing to talk...
If Santorum is elected, he'll probably ban gay...
Cause these guys really believe in all their platform issues, and they’re not just doing it for attention.
“Impoliteness marks you as a fool, for it takes away from you an advantage and...”
– The Samurai’s Tale Erik Christian Haugaard (via wildshieldmaiden)
Lapham's Quarterly: This is the moment in which... →
laphamsquarterly:
If you read one biography of Charles Dickens this year, seriously, make it Jane Smiley’s Charles Dickens: A Life, from the Penguin Lives series. (via LQ web editor michellelegro)
From Charles Dickens: A Life:
He made fun. He made fun of the Civil Service, he made fun of the courts of…
I can't be the only person in St. Louis who is...
After a torrent of social-media outrage, Komen... →
Wow!
suicidewatch:
The Nation Of Ulysses “Last Train...
January 2012
69 posts
freudian slip of the day
“Hey, I’m checking you out! I MEAN, can you check me out?”
Just had another guy ask how we stay in business...
thenelsontwins:
theconceptlibrarian:
Well, I said, if we were a business we’d probably be in trouble, but since we aren’t trying to make any money, we’re doing OK.
Update: he looked at the shelves, said “there’s too much to look at here, so I can’t choose anything. I mean, what do you watch?” and left.
America is screwed.
Remember that place you went before mega chain bookstores and the...
Just had another guy ask how we stay in business...
Well, I said, if we were a business we’d probably be in trouble, but since we aren’t trying to make any money, we’re doing OK.
Update: he looked at the shelves, said “there’s too much to look at here, so I can’t choose anything. I mean, what do you watch?” and left.
“A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when...”
– George Orwell (via nevver)
hero.
Letters of Note: To My Old Master →
perversetoamiracle:
In August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave, Jourdan Anderson, and requested that he come back to work on his farm. Jourdan — who, since being emancipated, had moved to Ohio, found paid work, and was now supporting his family — responded spectacularly by way of the letter seen below (a letter which, according to newspapers at...
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“Last time all my family got together they ended up against me. My cousin kept...”
– the Custodian
Franzen on ebooks and the future of reading →
thelifeguardlibrarian:
libraryjournal:
booksinthekitchen:
fsgbooks:
“Someone worked really hard to make the language just right, just the way they wanted it. They were so sure of it that they printed it in ink, on paper. A screen always feels like we could delete that, change that, move it around. So for a literature-crazed person like me, it’s just not permanent enough.”
-Jonathan...
Yeah So Pulp Sold Out the Warfield in Less Than 10... →
thenelsontwins:
theconceptlibrarian:
zeteticat:
BUT I GET TO GO B/C THE WOMBAT GOT TIX. We are not scalpers or robots. We are real people. I swear.
I just
I’m so
gahhhh
I’ve lost my mind. I can’t believe it’s real.
Those incompletes should fill in with “amazed” and “happy for you” rather than “jealous,” by the way.
Yeah So Pulp Sold Out the Warfield in Less Than 10... →
zeteticat:
BUT I GET TO GO B/C THE WOMBAT GOT TIX. We are not scalpers or robots. We are real people. I swear.
I just
I’m so
gahhhh
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“I used to be terrible. Well, I still am. Just not when I’m working.”
– the Custodian
Pajamas in public: The popularity of sleepwear is... →
oldauntamy:
Oh, I beg to differ.
People are as free to wear pajamas in public as I am to stop respecting them.
