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Blog: Illustrator Kim Sponaugle's Picture Kitchen Studio (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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By Alice Northover
Friday procrastination is back! Apologies for the absence loyal followers but this blog editor has been jetsetting, mysterious, and then trapped in an email prison as a result of the mysterious jetsetting. What did I miss? Well here are some things you may have missed:
A brief history of taxi words.
Underground NYPL is now on Google Plus.
Textscapes in airports. The words, the words!
If you like it [the libary], then you should have put a pin on it [your coat]. (h/t LJ)
How Facebook engineers grapple with how people actually speak versus how computers speak.
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Dude, you can ride waves in the sky.
Conspiracy theories in literature.
A Future of Libraries infographic.
Websites can be creepy. (And I should stop saying ‘Howdy!’ in emails.)
Dali controversy. Art claims. Confusion.
Septuagenarian Akutagawa Prize Winner. (h/t The Millions)
William Blake work rediscovered.
Newark Library’s painting is on display once again.
Tweet! Tweet! World’s largest natural sound archive now fully digital and fully online.
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Granta is going to produce its next once-a-decade list of British novelists under 40.
Harvard should admit more poets.
The Guardian’s higher ed chat tackled the role of university librarians in access to research.
A Town Like Alice and the Australian vernacular.
There are many myths of weight loss.
Chinese readers are crazy for crazy James Joyce.
The post-treatment health for cancer patients.
How are we doing on those Millenium development goals?
Alice Northover joined Oxford University Press as Social Media Manager in January 2012. She is editor of the OUPblog, constant tweeter @OUPAcademic, daily Facebooker at Oxford Academic, and Google Plus updater of Oxford Academic, amongst other things. You can learn more about her bizarre habits on the blog.
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Blog: librarian.net (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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If you’re Tom Corwin you buy it and plan a road trip with authors talking about books that changed their lives. Oh, and make a movie about it. Latest is Daniel Handler (author of the Lemony Snicket series). Read more at BookmobileTravels.com or on Twitter at BookmobileNews.

Blog: librarian.net (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Only the New York Times would call the act of getting books to people that don’t have them using locally appropriate technology “whimsical.” Here is the story of Luis Soriano and his Colombian Biblioburro (photo essay).
I like the movie idea. It’s really almost impossible for the media to show writers doing what we really do (which doesn’t look very dramatic). However, it would sure be nice if now and again a TV program or a movie showed a human being reading, or talking about, a book.