Celebrate Good Times!

First, a warning: We're in the battle for the net! You only have until midnight on Tuesday to send comments to the FCC. Take action now! I keep talking about net neutrality, because it's extraordinarily important. You really ought to go check out what higher education and library groups have said about net neutrality principles.

Now, for fun - today, July 14, is National Nude Day!

You're Welcome

Links!

• Libraries, Books, & Authors
• How your local library can help you resist the surveillance state 
• The French Do Buy Books. Real Books. "The French government classifies books as an 'essential good,' along with electricity, bread and water. (A French friend of mine runs a charity, Libraries Without Borders, which brings books to survivors of natural disasters.)....'We don’t sell potatoes,' says Mr. Moni. 'There are also ideas in books. That’s what’s dangerous. Because the day that you have a large seller that sells 80 percent of books, he’s the one who will decide what’s published, or what won’t be published. That’s what scares me.'"
• In bad taste: Awful dinner parties in fiction 
• Imagining a New Way to Read, One 3D-Printed Book at a Time 
• Homeland wins the Prometheus award! 
• Net & Tech
• Smile of the Century Emoticons are interesting. 
• The Universal Typeface Project Averages the World's Handwriting to Produce an Incredibly Average Font 
• Science
• There's More to Life Than Being Happy  
• A Girl Left Her Contacts In For 6 Months And Amoebas Ate Her Eyeballs Ouchouchouchouch...
• Can Smelling Farts Cure Cancer? Long story short - NO. No, it doesn't.
• Other
• New DOCTOR WHO Series 8 Trailer! I'm so excited! Also, check out that gorgeous concept intro. Wow!
• Male Jurors More Likely To Find Fat Women Guilty, According to Depressing Study 
• Three Steps We Can Take to Solve Poverty, From Someone Who Knows Firsthand 
• Religious post: An Adopted Child’s View of the Christian Adoption Movement I have no problem with adoption - there are plenty of kids out there that need homes - but this child makes some very important points about a movement that too often takes kids away from their families.
• White High School Drop-Outs Are As Likely To Land Jobs As Black College Students