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The Violinist’s Thumb, Sam Kean
The Violinist’s Thumb, Sam Kean As someone who religiously worked the gen ed requirements at my liberal arts college to avoid taking anything that might even remotely have smelled like a real science...
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Frank: The Voice, James Kaplan
Frank: The Voice Just between us, I enjoy a good juicy celebrity biography. I do have a few standards, though. I prefer my celebrity bios to be about someone I’m actually interested in learning more...
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Tim Gunn’s Fashion Bible, Tim Gunn
Tim Gunn’s Fashion Bible Where oh where does one begin with Tim Gunn’s Fashion Bible? With the lavish illustrations depicting the history of fashion? With the fashion trivia? With Gunn’s own...
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Linkspam, 11/9/12 Edition
Jeremy Brett as Dracula. Because WHY THE HELL NOT? Backdrop by Edward Gorey. I may swoon. A bit light again this week–this time due to the election, the DMV, and the day job eating my life. Omni...
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Looking Forward: 2013
Watching the Dark, the 20th Alan Banks novel If you’re anything like me where books are concerned, then the start of a new year brings all sorts of excitement because it means potential new offerings...
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The Fry Chronicles, Stephen Fry
The Fry Chronicles “If a thing can be said in ten words, I may be relied upon to take a hundred to say it. I ought to apologize for that. I ought to prune, pare and extirpate excess growth, but I will...
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Sidelines, Lois McMaster Bujold
Sidelines As I mentioned last week, I recently picked up a copy of Lois McMaster Bujold’s Sidelines, her collection of speeches, essays, travel notes, and other bits and pieces she’s collected over...
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Delicious Extruded Media Product
Corn field…or content farm? You decide! Yesterday, Justin Landon posted an excellent article about Suvudu Universe and some of the problems with this particular model of content generation. I’ll wait...
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