Monthly Archives: September 2005

September 29, 2005 – 1:33 pm

More on Banned Books

some stats from my mom for Banned Books week…
from Sept. 26 issue of Publishers Weekly:
547: number of book challenges received by the ALA in 2004458: number of book challenges received by the ALA in 2003515: number of book challenges received by the ALA in 2002448: number of book challenges received by the ALA in 2001
6,364: [...]

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September 28, 2005 – 8:00 am

A Man without a Country, by Kurt Vonnegut

Listen:
"…While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, their powerful political connections or great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and destroyed records rather than have to revealt to thought [...]

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September 27, 2005 – 1:45 pm

Celebrate Banned Books Week

Everyone should celebrate Banned Books Week by picking up something from one of the following incredibly subversive authors (top 10 list of most challenged authors from 1990 – 2004):
1. Alvin Schwartz
2. Judy Blume
3. Robert Cormier
4. J.K. Rowling
5. Michael Willhoite
6. Katherine Paterson
7. Stephen King
8. Maya Angelou
9. R.L. Stine
10. John Steinbeck
It’s just shocking to me that we [...]

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September 25, 2005 – 11:06 am

The Search, by John Batelle

I know a lot of people that work at Google there; in my work lately I have met a bunch more — it’s an interesting place. Sort of the center of the world for the consumer Internet these days.
John Batelle is a very smart, very connected guy here in the Valley — he was [...]

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September 16, 2005 – 9:05 am

.mac or not?

Kathy & I have been using .mac for a while now — it’s been really amazingly easy for her to take a ton of pictures with her Digital Rebel, import them into iPhoto, select which ones to post, and automatically put them up on .mac to share with the family. (Here’s a great one of [...]

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