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Phil’s Proof » Everything that’s wrong with Facebook:

Suddenly, when all your friends have been reduced to teensy avatars, canned quotations, and endless ‘favourites’ lists, they don’t seem quite as special as you may have once remembered them.
I really liked this quote from a blog post on the problems with the big social networking [...]

I rarely do this, but since today is the first day of Banned Books Week and I just don’t have the time to write about it, I am going to link off to Alan’s post on the subject.  He wrote Free People Read Freely yesterday.   I’ve read 9 of the 10 books he lists in [...]

I liked today’s Unshelved.  Seems a good topic choice for a strip to kick off  Banned Books Week

I’m really looking forward to this weeks Unshelved strips.  If you like Unshelved, I’d recommend signing up for e-mail delivery of the new strips.

From the Latest section. 
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Casey: Yeah, writing paper.
Josh: want to be distracted?
Josh: want to play a game?
Casey: Dude…the paper…
Josh: *scizzors beats paper *
Josh: yes I know I misspelled it
Josh: and that
Casey: *pulls out rock*
Josh: *VOLCANO!
Josh: nothing beats volcano
Casey: ASTEROID.
Josh: MAGIC!!!
Casey: BLACK HOLE!
Josh: WHITE HOLE!
Casey: PATRIOT ACT!
Josh: not white house you phail
Casey: No, no, no. [...]

I have added "The Thin Red Line" to the Other Blogs link area.   It’s run by Alan who describes himself as: "Library drone, writer, blogger and one of the oodles and oodles of bears in the Pacific Northwest."
 

Unshelved comic strip archive:
Strip published Thursday, September 27, 2007 Unshelved comic strip for Thursday, September 27, 2007

This is my life at work some days. But I love when people ask me questions. I really do.
If you haven’t already gotten hooked, check out Unshelved from the beginning way back in 2002.

I just added a link in the Other Blogs section for Will Taft’s blog.  I have really enjoyed reading it and maybe some of you other folks will too.  If you enjoy refreshingly drama-free and nonargumentative discussions you will find them there.

How judging a book by its ‘girlie’ cover is putting boys off reading - Times Online:
Attempts by parents and teachers to persuade boys to read more are being undermined by publishers whose insistence on using lurid “Barbie” pink covers on books is turning away young male readers in their droves.
Wendy Cooling, of Bookstart, [...]

"Zero Population Growth" was a commonly heard phrase back in the 1970s. In 1977 we had 4.230 billion people on earth. We currently have 6,620,647,631 as of 8:57pm tonight. (see: http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html)
 
Although you rarely hear it discussed directly, many of the problems in the world including, but not limited to:

human caused aspects of [...]