DnD

No one who knows me will be surprised that I like to play Dungeons and Dragons. DH and I recently started playing with a group once a week, and this past weekend we set up a game for Swicky and Coconut, as well. (Ranga doesn't get to play; he keeps trying to eat the dice.)

Last week, most of our group died. It was pretty terrible. One character - the Minotaur - lived. The rest of us have been rebuilding characters.

I'm excited! I get to make a new story...

Links!

• Libraries, Books, & Authors
• Radical Librarianship: how ninja librarians are ensuring patrons' electronic privacy 
• Historic Darby Free Library struggling to keep it together 
• Banned novel can return to district classrooms Hurrah! 
• Publishers Gave Away 122,951,031 Books During World War II 
• Digital Literacy Is the Key to the Future, But We Still Don’t Know What It Means 
• Net & Tech
• Civil Liberties Advocates, Organizations and Whistleblowers Tell Congress to Oppose the USA FREEDOM Act 
• Microsoft Buys 'Minecraft' for $2.5 Billion but Founders Will Leave
• With Tech Taking Over in Schools, Worries Rise "Technology companies are collecting a vast amount of data about students, touching every corner of their educational lives — with few controls on how those details are used."
• Science
• 10 Of The Strangest Known Medical Conditions Perfect reading for us hypochondriacs. 
• Scientists Develop Blood-Cleansing Artificial Spleen 
• Schizophrenia Revealed To Be 8 Genetically Distinct Disorders "...it wasn't one or even a small handful of genes acting independently to cause one disorder, but it was a total of 42 genetic clusters working together that were responsible for bringing out the symptoms for not one disease, but 8 separate disorders." 
• Other
• Why Democrats and Republicans don’t understand each other Very interesting.  
• Daniele Watts: Django Unchained actress detained by Los Angeles police after being mistaken for a prostitute "Her husband, Brian James Lucas, a chef, supported her account of the events in a social media posting of his own. He wrote: 'From the questions that he asked me as D was already on her phone with her dad, I could tell that whoever called on us (including the officers), saw a tatted RAWKer white boy and a hot bootie shorted black girl and thought we were a HO (prostitute) & a TRICK (client).'" 
• Urban Outfitters Offers 'Vintage' Faux Blood-Stained Kent State Sweatshirt