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  • Rare Children’s Books

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    Children’s literature is big business these days. Just go to any mega-chain bookstore and check out the square footage devoted to the kids. It’s fantastic that there are so many options for young readers, but the popularity of children’s literature is hardly a new phenomenon. The bookn3rd blog, which focuses on book history, has some…

  • Resources for Reading Out Loud

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    My wife just finished listening to Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere on audiobook. She’s been gushing all month about how fantastic of a reader Mr. Gaiman is–he narrated the book himself–and how he gets all the accents just right. This is something very important to the two of us, as we both love stories read aloud, but…

  • Custom World of Warcraft Figurines

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    If you’re looking for something to go with your WoW-engraved MacBook Pro, or perhaps a way to lure the kids out of Azeroth for a few precious moments, FigurePrints may be your answer. This Seattle-based startup will sell you a 3D replica of your favorite World of Warcraft toon for $99. You just give them…

  • A Planet

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    I seem to have written a poem. I’m not sure what to think of it, seeing as it’s been about a decade since I last wrote poetry. I want to like it, but I’m so out of practice with writing that I am tentative. It’s short, which works in its favor, but the device is…

  • Cross-Posting from Movable Type to LiveJournal

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    Natania told me the other day that some of our friends weren’t getting updates to my blog via their RSS readers, and I realized that it might be due to the fact that they’re still trying to follow my ancient LiveJournal. So I finally got off my ass and set up Movable Type to cross-post.…

  • Is Captcha’s Moment Passing? | Compiler from Wired.com

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    From Paul Adams’ article at Compiler: As long as processing power, et cetera, is finite, just slowing down the bots is helpful, even if we can’t block them altogether. But of course the bots will evolve, and so will the tests to stop them. There’s no ideal solution. Would you rather be deluged with spam,…

  • 4 color rebellion » The Great Experiment: Wii Fit

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    Pretty nifty look at the upcoming Wii Fit game as a viable exercise regimen. Link, via Penny Arcade

  • CAPTCHA, or Did I?

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    As previously noted, I spent a good deal of time on Friday and Saturday, updating the blog to MT4. I’m a fan of the interface updates, and it’s nice that comment spam is actually getting rated down again, but I’m still amazed at the number of spam messages that funnel through my site. Between when…

  • Free Range Kids: Giving Kids Freedom to be Kids

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    Lenore Skenazy, who wrote a controversial piece in last week’s New York Sun about letting her 9-year-old use the NYC subway, has a new blog called Free Range Kids, all about giving kids the same types of freedoms that we all experienced when we were younger: “Do you ever… ..let your kid ride a bike…

  • b00kn3rd: Really Cool Blog on Rare Books

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    My friend Laura recently started up a blog called b00kn3rd.com that focuses on all things related to bibliophilia: rare books, the modern bookselling trade, and the history of books. I have to admit, I’m much more up-to-speed with the book trade than I was before I added her blog feed to Reader. She has a…