Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Gypsy Jazz Centennial Django Party with The John Jorgenson Quintet, Doug Martin and special guests The Hot Club of Philadelphia. Sunday 3/21/2010 7:30 pm World Cafe Live Philadelphia, PA. Irish American / Gypsy Jazz Celebration.
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 Friday, March 05, 2010
Open legal material free the law. Law.Gov year-long effort to document detailed specifications that would enable the Federal and then state and local governments to provide a distributed, open source, authenticated registry and repository for primary legal materials.
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 Monday, February 22, 2010
Textbooks That Professors Can Rewrite Digitally. Who is in charge of content?
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 Friday, January 15, 2010
skiff reader
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 Thursday, January 14, 2010
Patry on Copyright Google Books law library free video William F. Patry Senior Copyright Counsel at Google
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 Tuesday, January 05, 2010
Jon Entine's Book "Abraham's DNA: Race, Identity and the DNA of the Chosen People.
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 Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Twitter Lists Follow #cyberplayground on #Twitterlists The beauty of lists is you can't follow everyone, so make a list and follow the #cyberplayground.
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 Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Inbox to full? Subscribe to the feed version of Educational CyberPlayGround Email Delivery powered by FeedBurner.
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 Sunday, September 27, 2009
IP Intellectual property, ACTA sucks Protect the commons and your rights from corporations' corrupt copyright controls standards of practice. International treaties used to hijack your Fair Use rights.
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 Tuesday, September 22, 2009
GOOGLE BOOK LAWSUIT speakers sort through the controversy, identify common ground, and map out the future of book ditization. Culture
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 Sunday, September 13, 2009
Is global capitalism on its last legs? Is the era of American leadership over? Has the West begun a decline into a new Dark Age? Does American civilization deserve to survive? These are the unnerving questions raised by the Great Crash of 2009. A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism.
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 Saturday, September 05, 2009
Library 2.0
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 Thursday, September 03, 2009
In fact, there are but two essential reasons we maintain these increased controls on behalf of our community: to protect our participants so that images that violate their privacy are not displayed, and to prevent companies from using Burning Man to sell products.
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 Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Is your library responding to hard economic times?
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 Tuesday, September 01, 2009
25 Great Pirate Bay Alternatives
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 Monday, August 31, 2009
china - illiteracy rates - First Nation People
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 Thursday, August 27, 2009
HOW TO WORK WITH Google - Question: "Google, why are you copying all the copyrighted books at major libraries?" Google: "Because that's where the books are!" Copyright attorney: "Is Google too big to infringe?"
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 Saturday, August 15, 2009
TextBooks: Why Buy When You Can Rent?
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 Friday, August 14, 2009
Each year, the Women's Section of the American Folklore Society awards two prizes in honor of pioneering scholar Elli Köngäs-Maranda. The prizes recognize superior work on women's traditional, vernacular, or local culture and/or feminist theory and folklore.
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 Monday, July 27, 2009
Anyone who is censored on the Net either in America or in China needs a VPN.
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 Tuesday, June 09, 2009
FIDDLE TUNES ILLUMINATED is a 120-page spiral-bound volume containing musical transcriptions for each of the 45 tunes contained on my two most recent CDs, A HENRY REED REUNION and SOUTHERN SUMMITS. The transcriptions – done with the able assistance of my fiddling colleague Liberty Rucker, who is skilled in managing the subtleties of the Finale transcription program – provide musical notation for both the tune and the performance style.
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 Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Aniaso was born around 1792 as a member of the Igbo tribe in West Africa. The main character was born in Africa but, at a young age, was transported to Jamaica, where he remained until his death. As a member of the Moravian mission he had a third identity: he was part of a global brother- and sisterhood of fellow Moravians of different ethnic backgrounds. Because of the interest his fellow Moravians took in his life, his biography was recorded, translated, and published in various Moravian periodicals, and finally preserved in their archives.
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 Wednesday, May 06, 2009
the ALA's comments on the Settlement include this pathetic line: "The Library Associations do not oppose approval of the Settlement." By now this ALA document may be too little, too late. Privacy
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 Tuesday, February 03, 2009
H-Folk -- in cooperation with The American Folklore Society, The Folklore Society of Great Britain, The Folklore Studies Association of Canada, the International Society for Folk Narrative Research, the National Folklore Support Centre [India], and the Socit internationale dethnologie et de folklore.
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 Monday, February 02, 2009
The Gilder Lehrman Center is accepting nominations for the 2009 Frederick Douglass Book Prize, a $25,000 award for the most outstanding nonfiction book published in English in 2008 on the subject of slavery and/or abolition and antislavery movements.
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 Sunday, January 18, 2009
The Digital Reference Section (DRS) conducts a free, one-hour orientation monthly, on the second Wednesday at 11 a.m. - noon, Eastern time, via Web conference. Throughout the program, DRS staff provide opportunities to ask questions, learn strategies for online access of the materials, and sample the collections and resources provided to facilitate your research.
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 Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Another Era  Whole Earth Catalog June 1971  Electronic Edition 

http://www.wholeearth.com/issue-electronic-edition.php?iss=1150


Computer Lib/Dream Machines Retrospective

This astonishingly prescient book originally written and published by by Theodor H. Nelson in 1974

in a glorious oversized format is one of the "tap roots" of the soon to be born microcomputer and "cyber" cultures.

The following pages provide a retrospecitve of this work and Ted's current projects and vision. We will present excerpts
from the 1975 (second?) edition, kindly provided to us by Dan Croghan.

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 Tuesday, January 06, 2009
VR, Virtual Librarian, Stop reading, Start ASKING, virtual librarian. Libraries are built on a distributed local model with over 120,000 libraries in the US alone to identify unique local resources, conversations, and thinking, and then bring that to a network scale.
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 Monday, December 22, 2008
China - Book review: Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics
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 Wednesday, December 10, 2008
We were once People of the Book but now we are becoming People of Screen. But to complete this transformation in full we need a set of tools which will allow us to manipulate, create, and process moving images with the same ease we have for words.
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 Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Twenty years after its first publication, H. David Brumble III offers a revised American Indian Autobiography. He does this in light of two criticisms. First, critics have challenged his assertion that "it is possible to separate Indian from editor/amanuensis" in early preliterate as-told-to autobiographies (vi). Second, Brumble was accused of not giving enough credence to the preferences of American Indians in regards to the material they chose to present.
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Writing a book subtitled "Southern Folk Culture" is an ambitious undertaking. Fortunately, John Burrison recognized the wide scope of the topic and narrowed his focus to a study of specific folk traditions found throughout the South in general by providing a specific focus on his own research on Georgia's traditional culture. Burrison's book is an interesting presentation of variations on the theme that folklife is a vibrant resource that profoundly shapes and expresses southern culture. Roots of a Region is not an exhaustive treatment of these topics. It is an accessible introduction to the study of southern folklore, written in an accessible style that presents academic research to readers with a non-specialized interest in folk culture.
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Folk Tales from a Persian Tribe: Forty-Five Tales from Sisakht in Luri and English.
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 Friday, November 14, 2008
My teacher Armand Mednick told us the real story behind The Secret Seder which is about a young boy who would grow up to become a beloved art teacher written and by Doreen Rappaport a Caldecott book award winner.
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 Monday, October 27, 2008
BUSH SIGNS RIAA-BACKED INTELLECTUAL-PROPERTY LAW President George Bush (R) on Monday signed into law an intellectual-property enforcement bill that would consolidate federal efforts to combat copyright infringement under a new White House cabinet position. Report on DMCA Law's Unintended Consequences. The Ten-Year Legacy of Harm to Fair Use, Free Speech.
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 Saturday, October 25, 2008
Society's Parasites (The Speculators. Why Banks and S&Ls went Bankrupt. THIS SOUNDS JUST LIKE THE 2008 WALL STREET BAIL OUT.
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 Wednesday, September 10, 2008
(U.S. and Canada) for Librarians as Community Partners: An Outreach Handbook (publisher: American Library Association) Articles by practicing academic, public, school, special librarians sharing their experiences on how U.S. librarians are not tied to computers inside libraries: how librarians partner, outreach, and market libraries in their communities. Librarians with ethnic backgrounds serving diverse cultures are encouraged.
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 Tuesday, September 09, 2008
Chistian Right Agenda Power And Money The Circus republican convention, christian right, sarah palin, christian values, moral authority, religion in schools mccain palin pregancy
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 Wednesday, August 27, 2008
a text converter translates the text of the U.S. Bill of Rights into text messaging language. Transl8it!
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grants scholarships math science technology free enterprise literacy inclusive education soccer programs
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 Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Kudos to the NJEA Review for this fabulous techie article that we can all understand. The Toolbox Featured in the January, 2008 issue of the NJEA REVIEW Web widgets increase student engagement by Patricia Bruder, EIRC
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 Thursday, July 24, 2008
Screw the DMCA: The chorus of voices criticizing the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) has just gotten a bit louder with the addition of a new and authoritative voice: The Library of Congress.
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 Monday, July 21, 2008
Letters, prose, poems, drawings mailed by soldiers and other servicemen and women during world war two.
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 Wednesday, July 09, 2008
hese Trends represent general directions regarding computing in libraries — short-term future directions where, from my perspective, things are or could be going.
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 Tuesday, July 08, 2008
While Bealle's research focuses on "folksong" as the root concept for interpreting Sacred Harp, Miller focuses on "diaspora." One of the advantages of speaking of Sacred Harp singing as a diaspora is that Miller can transcend well-worn notions of "tradition" and "revival."
Books | Music
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 Sunday, July 06, 2008
Various Readings
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Amazing OCW collections to explore for free!
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 Tuesday, July 01, 2008
One Web site, called Textbook Torrents, promises more than 5,000 textbooks for download in PDF format, complete with the original textbook layout and full-color illustrations. Users must simply set up a free account and download a free software program that uses a popular peer-to-peer system called BitTorrent. Other textbook-download sites are even easier to use, offering digital books at the click of a mouse.
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 Saturday, June 28, 2008
It is somewhat discouraging to see that publishers have to check the articles submitted by academics and researchers for possible plagiarism.
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 Monday, June 02, 2008
The Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act, S.2913,
Arts | Books | Literacy | Music
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 Saturday, May 31, 2008
May 18, 2008 at William Grant Still Arts Center Queen Calafia: Ruler of California starring Ursaline Bryant. The idea of the name of California being derived from a saga of black women warriots was not taken seriously in historical circles.
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A Trained but Novel Way to Keep Track of an Underground Library Collection While Making It a Stationary Lending Collection
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 Thursday, May 29, 2008
This new Orphan Works legislation proposes a change in U.S. copyright that would (indirectly) require artists, illustrators, photographers, and any creative individual to actively maintain and defend their copyright by registering each and every work with privatized registrars. Failure to do so would leave everything you've ever created as an artist up for grabs by anyone who wanted to copy, reproduce, create derivative works of, or flat out steal your work since the act defines an "orphan work" as any work where the author is unidentifiable or unlocatable, and applies to both published and unpublished works, U.S. and foreign, regardless of age.
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Proposed secret copyright deal takes aim at iPods, providers. I have a GREAT idea: Why don't we let the RIAA write our copyright laws? The Canadian government is secretly negotiating an agreement to revamp international copyright laws which could make information on iPods, laptops and other personal electronic devices illegal and greatly increase the difficulty of travelling with such devices.
Arts | Books | Literacy | Music
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 Monday, May 19, 2008
Why the Orphan Works Act is Uncle Sam's Thieves' Charter. Two-tier nature of US copyright law.
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 Monday, May 12, 2008
WE LOVE LIBRARIANS!!! He was allowed to speak publicly Wednesday under a rare settlement in which the FBI agreed to withdraw its letter and lift the gag order. That should show other librarians, and members of the public who receive any of the nearly 50,000 national security letters the government issues each year, that "you can push back on these," Kahle said.
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 Wednesday, May 07, 2008
We are inviting academic editorial contributors to the Encyclopedia of Play, a new 2-volume reference to be published in 2009 by Sage Publications. This comprehensive work will be marketed and sold to college, public, and academic libraries and includes some 450 articles, covering all aspects of a social science perspective on playing, including psychology, gender studies, sociology, education, human development, history, and other fields. We are now making assignments with a deadline of August 1, 2008.
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 Tuesday, May 06, 2008
The epic here edited and translated was recorded from a Karakalpak epic singer, Jumabay-jïraw Bazarov, in Shomanay in Karakalpakistan in 1993. Karakalpakistan is a province in Uzbekistan" (15). Thus begins Karl Reichl's masterful presentation of Edige and his important contribution to the ever-increasing number of modern-day oral epics textualized by Western scholars for Western audiences in accordance with the most rigorous and up-to-date criteria for such a project.
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 Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Friday night is singles' night at the city's main library.
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 Friday, April 25, 2008
SUNY Press Dissertation/First Book Prize in African American Studies worth $3000.00
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 Thursday, April 24, 2008
Oldie but Goodie from 1999
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 Thursday, April 17, 2008
Do you just want science info or do you want both K-12 Newsletter? Find the RSS feed that delivers the topic you want.
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 Monday, April 14, 2008
by Michael S. Hart Founder, 1971 Project Gutenberg Inventor of eBooks - In 1985 when Gary Kildall, IBM's first choice before Bill Gates to design their PC's operating system a few years earlier, came out with the first electronic encyclopedia, who would figure it would be only a quarter of a century before print encyclopedias faded from the limelight to join vinyl records and dinosaurs?
Monday, April 14, 2008 11:52:29 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)    Disclaimer  |   | 
by Michael S. Hart Founder, 1971 Project Gutenberg Inventor of eBooks - It's all over for those hefty paper encyclopedias. No less an authority than The New York Times tells us it is time to "Start Writing the Eulogies for Print Encyclopedias," that it is all over other than rolling out the last few editions of some last few hard-boiled Luddites who insist on paper encyclopedias, at a price that could easily buy you a decent used car.
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 Monday, February 25, 2008
Book Reviews of Good Humor, Bad Taste: A Sociology of the Joke. By Giselinde Kuipers. The Music of Bill Monroe. By Neil V. Rosenberg and Charles K. Wolfe. Living by Stories: A Journey of Landscape and Memory. By Harry Robinson.
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 Wednesday, February 13, 2008
The first known recording of Ginsberg reading the poem was thought to be March 18, 1956, at a notorious performance in Berkeley, Calif. Until now. Also read and hear Howl 2 Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Howl, Reed College, Cordley Coit
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 Thursday, February 07, 2008
How did Ernst Leitz II and his staff get away with it? A tale of courage, integrity and humility that is only now coming to light, some 70 years after the fact. The Leica is the pioneer 35mm camera. From a nitpicking point of view, it wasn't the very first still camera to use 35mm movie film, but it was the first to be widely publicized and successfully marketed.
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DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 29 November 2007—Lawsuits have been dismissed and issues surrounding distribution of eAudiobooks have been resolved, according to Recorded Books and NetLibrary, the parties involved.
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 Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Lore's Labor's Lost: Archie Green's Restoration of Worlds of Labor. Tin Men. By Archie Green. 2006. Millwrights in Northern California 1901-2002. 2003. By Archie Green. Harry Lundeberg's Stetson & Other Nautical Treasures. 2006. By Archie Green. The Big Red Songbook. 2007. Edited by Archie Green, David Roediger,Franklin Rosemont, and Salvatore Salerno. Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon: The Call of the Popular from the Restoration to the New Criticism.
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 Monday, February 04, 2008
The beginning of Spring. Irish Goddess "Brigit's Day" Imbolc "in the belly" (of the mother) when plants start to grow. Kildare Ireland, priestess, druids, groundhog, candlemas, feb. 2, festival of lights.
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 Thursday, January 31, 2008
Book Review: Vampires: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil and Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction and Tech Girls Are Chic
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 Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Find out how to contact online librarians and get help for free. See if your library is online and participates. It's better than Google!!! Youth Vs. Adults in Gadget Wars
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Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and Satanic Abuse in History. The Glenbuchat Ballads. Edited by David Buchan and James Moreira. The Folklore of the Jews. By Angelo S. Rappoport. Performing Dark Arts: A Cultural History of Conjuring. By Michael Mangan. Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend. By Gary L. Roberts.
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 Saturday, January 26, 2008
C-span Tonight Saturday, January 26, at 7:00 PM American book Awards
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 Monday, January 21, 2008
On C-span 27th Annual American Book Awards Ceremony - Daniel Cassidy January 26, at 7:00 PM Sunday, January 27, at 1:00 AM Monday, January 28, at 6:00 AM
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 Wednesday, January 09, 2008
A Florida Fiddler: The Life and Times of Richard Seaman by Gregory Hansen
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 Saturday, December 22, 2007
XO laptop delivered today - see it fresh out of the box!
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Free: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia* Hear Peter Cole tell the story of America’s first truly interracial labor union.
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 Thursday, December 20, 2007
A law expected to revolutionize Israel's library system, with radical changes that include canceling membership fees.
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Johnsonton County is on the hunt for books to remove from its collection after removing "How the Girls lost their accents". What scariest of all is that they aren't waiting to react, they're just looking for books that are "offensive."
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 Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Proof - George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany. Hitler had a nephew, William Patrick Hitler, who grew up in England, moved to America, and had three sons.
Wednesday, December 19, 2007 9:19:21 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)    Disclaimer  |   | 
 Thursday, December 13, 2007
Journal of Folklore Research Reviews. Martha I. Chew Sánchez’ book, Corridos in Migrant Memory, provides us with a brilliant, in-depth analysis of contemporary --mainly 1990-2003-- Mexican-immigration-themed corridos or Mexican ballads.
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Journal of Folklore Research Reviews Jack Zipes, setting forth a framework for the social history of the literary fairy tale (10), puts the genre back into history.
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New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids vol. 81 (3&4) 2007 - Articles and Book Reviews
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 Monday, December 10, 2007
"If the government had been more diligent in looking for workarounds instead of baring its teeth when Amazon balked, it's probable that this entire First Amendment showdown could have been avoided," he wrote.
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 Wednesday, December 05, 2007
NetHappenings Google's campaign to digitize the world's books. How to work with Google.
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 Monday, December 03, 2007
Each month the ITS-TL's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a number of information and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators. - Observations on Scholars' Use of Digitized Resources - Technology Standards for Students - Preventing Online Exam Cheating, Call for Papers on Academics in Virtual Environments - Recommended Reading: Book Review STUDIO THINKING: THE REAL BENEFITS OF VISUAL ARTS EDUCATION
Monday, December 03, 2007 2:26:52 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)    Disclaimer  |   | 
 Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Learn about Naomi Klein. Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman allows Naomi Klein to ask former Federal Reserve Chairman about his statement that the occupation in Iraq is all about the oil and those missing billions from Iraq.
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Book Review: In this illuminating book, Gloria Wekker analyzes the phenomenon of mati work, an old practice among Afro-Surinamese working-class women in which marriage is rejected in favor of male and female sexual partners.
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 Sunday, November 25, 2007
"To Read or Not to Read: A Question of National Consequence" "We've got a public culture which is almost entirely commercial- and novelty-driven," says NEA chairman Dana Gioia. "I think it's letting the nation down."
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 Saturday, November 24, 2007
Get the Widget for your website - Education, News, Law, Security, Literacy, K - 12, Internet, NetHappenings, Technology, Music, Science, Literacy, Arts,Books,
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 Friday, November 23, 2007
Try to imagine a person engaged in any activity. Now list the objects that are included in this scene. There are always things. The clothes we wear, the surfaces we touch, what we can see, our own body, the smells, the sounds. Even in philosophies that try to keep to only the bare essentials, let us say for example Zen Buddhism, a great concern with objects, in Zen the simplicity and crudeness of artifacts used for tea ceremony, has taken much attention and work. Material culture is everywhere, but not enough in academic work, say the authors of the volume reviewed here.
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 Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Michelle Malkin our student’s test scores on a major international reading exam have been rendered invalid because the contractor who printed the tests misnumbered the pages–and the Department of Education failed to proofread the booklets! Comments anyone?
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 Friday, November 16, 2007
In a nutshell, this is what I think about and publish.
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 Thursday, November 15, 2007
2007 American Book Award Winner and Author Dan Cassidy of How the Irish Invented Slang will be meeting Spike Slattery's grandson. Spike was the guy who first used the word jazz in front of Scoop Gleeson at a reading in Sonoma, CA where the old jazz and gin-i-ker came back to life.
Thursday, November 15, 2007 3:02:12 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)    Disclaimer  |   | 
Book Review: Basile's Tale of Tales, also called the Pentamerone, is a collection of fifty stories--chiefly complex tales of magic, popularly known as fairy tales--published in Naples in 1634-1636.
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Book Review
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Thursday, November 15, 2007 2:04:16 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)    Disclaimer  |   | 
Norman Mailer, died in November 2007.
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The four winners of the 2007 National Book Awards, announced at a dinner and ceremony in New York City on November 14, are:
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 Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Interdiscipliary - TEACH HISTORY THROUGH SONG Interdisciplinary Educational Curriculum
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 8:06:52 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)    Disclaimer  |   | 
In Shadow of the Fathers, Robert Friedman turns a disturbing, possibly tragic historical event in Puerto Rico into a captivating work of fiction. Personal obsessions and public events collide as the novel's characters grapple with lies, false identities, puzzling connections, U.S. wars and colonialism.
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 Monday, November 12, 2007
Perfect Pitch vs. Tone Deaf People The way that people talk about 'high' and 'low' notes makes it sound as though musical pitch has something to do with physical location. Now it seems there may be a reason for this: the same bit of our brain could control both our understanding of pitch and spatial orientation.
Monday, November 12, 2007 3:00:26 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)    Disclaimer  |   | 
Carrying this book around recently Ive caught more than a little flak, not least from my kids, who once thought of me as a literary intellectual, or at the very least as a guy who espoused the virtues of reading. Hey, really, I told them as well as my wife and the guy sitting next to me on the subway no kidding, its a serious book, written by a professor of literature whos also a psychoanalyst. A French professor/shrink, no less, whos written books on Proust, Maupassant, Balzac, Laclos and Stendhal, among other canonical heavyweights. So lay off.
Monday, November 12, 2007 2:56:05 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)    Disclaimer  |   | 
That settled, this autobiography is less about self-discovery than about public justification. Venter aims to validate his role in the genome contest, defend his motives, settle scores and recount a career that produced several other scientific firsts. The result is engrossing and exasperating and it does indeed suggest a rethinking of the genome race, though perhaps not the one Venter prefers.
Monday, November 12, 2007 2:55:20 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)    Disclaimer  |   | 
Should Folklorists study the interent? Objects and artifacts have long been Professor Turkle’s stock in trade. When she arrived at M.I.T. in the 1970s, fresh from Harvard, Paris and years of studying French philosophy and psychoanalytic thought, Professor Turkle brought a humanist’s eye to the device that her new colleagues had become enamored of: the computer.
Monday, November 12, 2007 1:23:40 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)    Disclaimer  |   | 
 Saturday, November 10, 2007
The Sanas (Irish Etymology) of Faro, Poker and the Secret Flash Words for the Brotherhood of American Gamblers By DANIEL CASSIDY The Irish... gave American, indeed, very few new words; perhaps speakeasy, shillelah and smithereens exhaust the list." H.L. Mencken, 1937. A Dictionary of Hiberno-English,...corroborates the well-known but puzzling fact that so few Irish words have been absorbed into Standard English." Terence Patrick Dolan, 1999 "There's A Sucker (Sách úr, fresh new "fat cat") Born Every Minute," Mike McDonald, 1839 - 1907 The Irish language in America is a lost, living tongue, hidden beneath quirky (corr-chaoí, odd-mannered, odd-shaped) phonetic orthographic overcoats and mangled American pronunciations. Irish words and phrases are scattered all across American language, regional and class dialects, colloquialism, slang, and specialized jargons like gambling, in the same way Irish-Americans have been scattered across the crossroads of North America for five hundred years. Irish was transformed by English cultural imperialism from the first literate vernacular of Europe in the 5th century, into the underworld cant (caint, speech) of thieves and "vagaboundes" in the 16th century, and then into the countless number of anonymous Irish words and phrases in American Standard English, vernacular, slang, and popular speech today .
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 Friday, November 09, 2007
Karen, on email for first time in 5 days... NYT story is #6 on most emailed POPULAR stories today IT WAS SO GREAT SEEING YOU...YOU ARE THE GIN-I-KER LET'S GET THIS SHOW ON DE ROAD Growing up Irish in Queens and on Long Island, Daniel Cassidy was nicknamed Glom. “I used to ask my mother, ‘Why Glom?’ and she’d say, ‘Because you’re always grabbing, always taking things,’” he said, imitating his mother’s accent and limited patience, shaped by a lifetime in Irish neighborhoods in New York City. It was not exactly an etymological explanation, and Mr. Cassidy’s curiosity about the working-class Irish vernacular he grew up with kept growing. Some years back, leafing through a pocket Gaelic dictionary, he began looking for phonetic equivalents of the terms, which English dictionaries described as having “unknown origin.”
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 Wednesday, November 07, 2007
The Greenwood Library of American Folktales. 4 vols. Edited by Thomas A. Green. 2006. Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group. 1592 pages. ISBN: 0-313-33772-1 (hard cover). This story of the trickster trying to imitate another occurs in other variants in the Southwest (See, for example, the Jicarilla Apache, "Tales of Fox: Fox and Kingfisher," p. 116). As in the tale types designated by folklorist Stith Thompson as animal tales, "The Coyote and the Woodpecker" offers a moral lesson. The philosophy of acceptance and noncompetitiveness is consistent with general Pueblo worldview and morality. (3:109)
Wednesday, November 07, 2007 5:51:25 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)    Disclaimer  |   | 
Meet my friends The Funk Brothers ~ Karen Ellis MORE #1 HITS THAN The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones and Elvis Combined HOW ALLAN SLUTSKY GET THE IDEA FOR THE MOVIE? This film is based on a book of the same title by Mr. Allan Slutsky that won the 1989 Rolling Stone/BMI Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award. Mr. Slutsky a New Jersey-based musician, author, and movie producer who worked for 14 years in putting together the movie, told me that after a theatrical run, the film will go to cable and then be released on tape and DVD. The documentary movie has already played in Los Angeles for a week in December 2001 in order to qualify for next year's Academy Awards, but that its official world premiere will be in Detroit in January or February of 2002. Produced by Paul Elliott and David Scott, Executive Producers Allan Slutsky, Paul Justman, Sandy Passman and Karen Ellis Founder and CEO of the Educational CyberPlayGround, Honorary Funk Sister
Wednesday, November 07, 2007 5:15:54 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)    Disclaimer  |   | 
HE WAS SWELL (PUN) Finally, I was at the Irish Arts Center in New York tonight to hear my pal Danny Cassidy talk about and read from his brilliant book on How the Irish Invented Slang—The Secret Language of the Crossroads (CounterPunch). He could and should turn his rap into stage show. He was mesmerizing. inspiring and inspired.
Wednesday, November 07, 2007 2:43:48 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)    Disclaimer  |   | 
 Sunday, November 04, 2007
College librarians are leading a charge against measures in the House and Senate that would grant federal intelligence agencies great latitude in gathering data on library patrons.
Sunday, November 04, 2007 7:00:45 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)    Disclaimer  |   | 
 Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Why we curse.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:54:57 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)    Disclaimer  |   | 
Nick Chiles, an education reporter and author, who believe these novels glamorize black criminals.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007 3:32:48 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)    Disclaimer  |   | 
"Jail Library - These are things I find abandoned in books or stuffed on the book cart at the jail where I volunteer.
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 Monday, October 29, 2007

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 Sunday, October 28, 2007
e-book acceptance his surprisingly positive experience using his Blackberry as an e-book reader. A book is, foremost, the arrangement of words in sequence, and they are, to borrow a buzz-phrase from the digital folk, platform agnostic.
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 Tuesday, October 23, 2007


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