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You may have noticed there was no “Tuesday Winks” this week. I was out of town and didn’t have the internet connection I was hoping for. My apologies.
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The June 06 issue of Boldtype is up.
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Washington Journalist to Edit The Village Voice.
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Celebrating 75 years of golden reading:

Seventy-five years ago, members of the Commonwealth Club decided there was something called a California book — not just a California novel or a work of scholarship or a collection of poetry, but a regional oeuvre. To identify and celebrate books by writers living in the state, they created the California Book Award.

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Hebrew Book Week.
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Publishing Gone Digital – It’s refreshing when a major publisher isn’t afraid of OA. Such is the case with Yale, which blogged about one of their books, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom and posted a link to the free, online version. (via Father Inch)
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This site has some info on FSU’s “in the works” graduate program, History of Text Technologies (HOTT).
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Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times book editor, retires. (via ArtsJournal)
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I’m so sick of all the drama surrounding e-books. E-books and paper books can live happily side by side, just like computer games and board games. (via ArtsJournal)
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A biblioblogger visits the local branch library – this is your laugh for the day. Maybe.
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If that wasn’t your laugh for the day, this video will be. (via John Baker’s Blog)
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Check out the Rebuild New Orleans Public Library website.
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Love the smell of old paperbacks? Or, perhaps you’re trying to attract a dude or chick who loves books? Now you can smell like an old paperback, too. (via That’s hot!)
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Book of the Day has announced The Alt.list winners, based upon votes by bloggers and others. The top winner? The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster.
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Something to consider while writing the Great _______ Novel: 10 flagrant grammar mistakes that make you look stupid (via Lifehacker)
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I want one of these sharpeners. Yes, I realize I already have five other sharpeners and don’t need another one, but it’s so pretty! I’m a sucker for limited edition writing stuff, especially orange limited edition writing stuff.
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Fresh Air’s got a two-part interview with Billy Collins: Thing 1 and Thing 2.
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I just heard about what must be a fascinating and somewhat sad documentary on the last day of Linotype operations at the New York Times in 1978. The director, David Loeb Weiss, was a NYT proofreader and passed away last year. Read the obituary for more about the film.
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Obits:

Writer Avigdor Dagan passed away.

Alex Toth, 77, Comic Book Artist and ‘Space Ghost’ Animator, Dies.

Thursday Blinks | 2006 | books, culture, history | Comments (4)

4 Responses to “Thursday Blinks”

  1. Original post:Thursday Blinks by at Google Blog Search: free computer game Pages: Start

  2. mistress says:

    “You may have noticed there was no “Tuesday Winks” this week. I was out of town and didn’t have the internet connection I was hoping for.”

    Glad to have you back. :)

  3. Father Inch says:

    This is the great fear that keeps me awake at night:

    BIBLIOBLOGGER: OK, well, let me run my Portable Firefox from my USB drive on one of your public-access computers…

    BRANCH LIBRARIAN: We don’t allow patrons to use USB drives. The IT guys won’t let us.

  4. theorist says:

    Thank you, Mistress.

    Father Inch, I didn’t know you frequent branch libraries. Do they have a copy of the Tosefta in Germantown?

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