Awful Library Books reviews bad and outdated library books from various collections: Computer books from the early nineties (or one from the sixties, when it was still all punch-cards), investment books from the seventies, wedding-planning books that discuss budgeting with 1984 dollars, etc.
Which from a historical perspective might be useful, but I agree they have no place on current shelves.
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A fun Web site
August 25th, 2009, 4:05 pm by fshermanThis is neat
August 18th, 2009, 12:05 pm by fshermanA Christian Science Monitor article on activists taking fresh produce into “food deserts,” inner-city area where there’s nowhere to buy fruit or veggies.
Houses of mystery
June 23rd, 2009, 8:03 am by fshermanYou have to see these to believe it: http://villageofjoy.com/50-strange-buildings-of-the-world/
Now that’s interesting …
May 22nd, 2009, 12:20 pm by fshermanBob Graham has apparently a habit of recording the minutia of his life in great detail, which a lot of people find odd.
However, when the CIA claimed to have briefed him in detail on its interrogation techniques, it turned out he was able to reference the notebooks and confirm he wasn’t at the briefings. Details on Quantified self
If you meet a gorilla in the road
May 13th, 2009, 10:38 am by fshermanAdvice from a Congolese park ranger in a Christian Science Monitor article:
Don’t eat or drink in front of gorillas.
Don’t point at them with your finger.
Don’t use a camera flash.
Don’t touch.
Don’t run if a silverback charges. Instead, scooch down and follow your guide’s lead.
Don’t go to the bathroom facing a gorilla; always turn away.
Don’t look a gorilla in the eye.
A challenge for cooks?
March 30th, 2009, 2:34 pm by fshermanMouse Print, a blog dedicated to critiquing the fine print on various too-good-to-be-true offers, also keeps track of companies that shrink the amount you get while adjusting the packaging so you can’t tell. Haagen-Dazs, for instance, has reduced its pint bucket to 14 ounces by very slightly narrowing the container.
One commenter pointed out that as this trend continues—and I’m quite sure it will—how will it affect cooks using recipes that call for “one can of X?” If the recipe was written for a pound can or eight ounce can and the contents are a couple of ounces less, that’s going to throw the recipe off.
As a cook, I find this an interesting thought.
This is stunning
March 20th, 2009, 1:01 pm by fshermanA photographer caught the plumes of ash when they erupted from an undersea volcano near the island of Tonga: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/03/undersea_eruptions_near_tonga.html
Go and look.
Because they’re baked by elves
March 6th, 2009, 7:54 am by fshermanHilzoy on Obsidian Wings discusses the Icelandic laws that require developers check for elves, dwarves or troll habitat before building. No, I’m not kidding.
This was interesting
January 13th, 2009, 1:44 pm by fshermanOne of the world’s top violinists went busking on the DC subway (playing on a Stradivarius no less) to see how people reacted. The story is here.
