Just Links....
Links!
- Libraries, Books, & Authors
- Library of Congress apologizes for “egregious lapse” in Twain book
- Ursula K. Le Guin on Where Ideas Come From, the “Secret” of Great Writing, and the Trap of Marketing Your Work
- 51 Of The Most Beautiful Sentences In Literature
- Weird and wonderful bookshops worldwide – in pictures
- Net & Tech
- Hey, Parents. What Minecraft Is Doing to Your Kids Is Kind of Surprising. "Players squabble about 'where to place a block or what material to use,' and in extreme cases, someone might put dynamite on a creation to 'blow it up for fun.'" Or they might fill your entire dream house with a rain of chickens through a hole they blew in your roof and I am never forgiving you for that, DH!
- Google News Shuttered in Spain Thanks to “Ancillary Copyright” Law
- Science
- In The Ocean, The Most Harmful Plastic Is Too Small To See
- Google Doodle Honors Astronomer Annie Jump Cannon
- Other
- Spending deal would allow wealthy donors to dramatically increase giving to national parties "...a donor who gave the maximum $32,400 this year to the Democratic National Committee or Republican National Committee would be able to donate another $291,600 on top of that to the party’s additional arms -- a total of $324,000, ten times the current limit. In a two-year election cycle, a couple could give $1,296,000 to a party's various accounts." Related: Warren leads liberal Democrats’ rebellion over provisions in $1 trillion spending bill
- Walmart Illegally Punished Workers, Judge Rules
- The Wall Street Takeover of Charity
- Illinois New Eavesdropping Law Is A Terrible Idea
- Undercover agent pulls gun on protesters and Reuters photographer during Oakland protest of police killings
- Walmart security guard shoots 'shoplifting' mother dead in parking lot as she tries to escape with two young children
- Russia Denounces U.S. Over C.I.A. Torture Report
- Greenpeace apologises to people of Peru over Nazca lines stunt
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