Living the Liminal

Dedicated to last week’s heat wave and to honor Jo Cose’s request:
Recording Session: Aug 6, 2006 / 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Song: “Hot Summer Day,” written sometime 1998
Lyrics:
it’s like the motion of light in water
it’s like the taste of rainbows
it’s like the smell of clover
on a hot summer day
it’s like the feel of silk pajamas
it’s like the [...]

It is a grumpy day for LtL - too little sleep, too little actually accomplished, too much chaos and rubble in the apartment. I’ve tried to turn it around by simply making it a reading day and have read (well, skimmed) a rather quaint book called City of Bits. Quaint because it was written in [...]

This post is especially for Jocose. I’ve been reading The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson and came across this passage I wanted to share:

Consider the curiously persistent notion that sentences should not end with a preposition. The source of this stricture, and several other equally dubious ones, was one Robert Lowth, an eighteenth-century clergyman and [...]

For those of you who don’t mind doing some reading on your computers, you might want to check out the World eBook Fair. From their site:
July 4th untill August 11th, 2006
Download your selections from 1/3 million eBooks.
Due To High Demand the World eBook Fair will Remain Open An Extra Week, from August 4th to August [...]

Check this out… the Espresso Book Machine will print and bind a 300 page book in minutes and for just pennies per page.
The World Bank’s Infoshop has a story about its use in Washington DC.
US News talks about the bigger picture of publishing and how such on-demand printing services might effect both publishers and consumers.
Newsweek [...]