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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …