This just in. The Open Library, you know that awesome website with the terrific design and great dataviz options, is lending digital books to anyone whose library has a working relationship with OverDrive. Gary Price explains more with links for further reading. I am very curious to see if a library without all the print-book baggage [disclaimer: I love to read print books also] can really make this ebook thing make real sense to people without the majority of the battling-licenses overhead that I think makes OverDrive seem so wonky in our brick and mortar libraries. Go to the lending library and see how it works. [thanks peter]
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Marian Wang leads the charge back to true investigative journalism.
Shared by cygnoirJohn Doe: John Doe is a mysterious man who rises from the water off an isolated island possessing knowledge of literally everything in the world, yet having no memory of who – or even what – he is.
Hulu recommended this show to me a few weeks ago. If a dear friend hadn’t said he enjoyed it so much, I might have given up. I’m glad I didn’t. The flaws are entirely ignorable, and it’s a lot of fun.
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Shared by cygnoirA cat that had its back feet severed by a combine harvester has been given two prosthetic limbs in a pioneering operation by a UK vet.
The video made me all teary! Amazing. (thanks, vicster)
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Shared by cygnoirSecond Life fundraiser for the National Wildlife Federation. This is to help recovery from the ongoing oil-spill in the gulf coast ecosystem. Currently seeking volunteers of all kinds to contribute!
One of the many reasons why I love Second Life is fundraising responses like this one.
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Via Hawk. I had to go with “scandalously accordioned”.
Pick your favorite two-word phrase.
The top three phrases will end up in the upcoming Codpiece Johnson short story. How will you vote? Will you vote to challenge me? Will you vote to sate your own curiosity? Will you vote to throw a softball? To see what I’ll do with a delicious bit of profanity? What’s your metric?
Shared by cygnoirPhotofast, a company known for producing flash memory products, has entered the realm of Apple accessories, most notably iPad accessories. The main disappointment …
Heck yes!
Shared by cygnoircalibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books.
This converted a .lit file to a format my iPad could handle in less than a minute. Brilliant!
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I’ve heard this site mentioned so many times, but never really checked it out before today. Gorgeous stuff.
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I am giving you all ideas for our wedding, of course.
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What is the man in the chicken suit truly capable of? Even I don’t know. Will he steal the couple’s getaway limo to go pick up chicks all night? (HEH) Will he start doing the worm in the middle of the reception dance party? Perhaps he’ll just Photobomb every single picture taken of the bride and groom? The sneaky bastard would do something like that.
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