Monday, December 20, 2004

Dang It

I am still having issues with comment spamming.  Dang it!

Currently attempting to arrange an upgrade, with a big ass spammer beating stick.

Posted by John Venlet on 12/20 at 05:38 PM
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An Ode to Libraries

Will digitising books, gathered in great libraries around the world, sound the death knell for libraries?  I doubt it very much.  There are great benefits to the digitized word, but, the digitized word will not replace the edifices which currently house wonderful collections of books.

Ben Macintyre enjoys libraries, and he shares his thoughts on them, and the coming online world of libraries, in a piece titled “Paradise is paper, vellum and dust."

From Macintyre’s piece.

"I have spent a substantial portion of my life since in libraries, and I still enter them with a mixture of excitement and awe. I am not alone in this. Veneration for libraries is as old as writing itself, for a library is more to our culture than a collection of books: it is a temple, a symbol of power, the hushed core of civilisation, the citadel of memory, with its own mystique, social and sensual as well as intellectual. Even people who never enter libraries instinctively understand their symbolic power."

Via Arts & Letters Daily.

Posted by John Venlet on 12/20 at 06:55 AM
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A Joke?, No, a Slew of Blundering Fools Spending Stolen Money without Thought

Sheriff Dan Mack thinks it’s some kind of ”...dark-colored joke..." that the thirty thousand dollar SUV he purchased, with Homeland Security grant money, can only be used in response to a terror attack, in Hamlin County S.D.  An area of the country where I think most individuals can probably take care of themselves.

Plasma teevees, pagers, and garden hoses, are just a few of the other items bought with Homeland Security grant money, in states across the U.S.

This isn’t some “dark-colored joke.” It’s fools, leading fools, in ignorance.

“Rural county’s new Homeland SUV sits unused, awaiting terror attack"

Posted by John Venlet on 12/20 at 06:38 AM
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