According to this article in The Norway Post (which charmingly calls itself "The Doorway to Norway"), the public library in Stavanger, Norway, is doing outreach the oldfashioned way. The library has loaded a vintage 1957 Opel Olympia with books, which it then offers to folks lounging on area beaches--even if they don't have their cards … Continue reading Wait… There Are Beaches in Norway?
Umm… the Bible?
I confess I don't really care about the article itself, but the headline is great. Today in the Minneapolis Star Tribune is a roundup of what's hot in religious bookstores. It's entitled "What Would Jesus Read?".--David E
A World Without Ishmael
Caleb Crain, who posts on the blog Steamboats Are Ruining Everything, copied and pasted the entire text of Moby Dick into Wordle.net. Wordle analyzes the frequency of words in a text, then arranges them to make a "word cloud." The more frequent the word, the bigger it appears. This is the result, comprising the 75 … Continue reading A World Without Ishmael
Musings from Magers and Quinn 