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Free Banned Books from the Internet Archive

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74 Free Banned Books (for Banned Books Week) | Open Culture:

To commemorate Banned Books Week, the always great Internet Archive has opened up access to 74 banned books. The collection features some serious pieces of literature (James Joyce’s Ulysses, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night, Huxley’s Brave New World, etc.); some traditional children’s classics (Winnie the Pooh); and some sinister books of unquestionable historical importance (Mein Kampf). These books can be downloaded in multiple digital formats, including sometimes ePub and Kindle formats. This gives you the ability to read the the works on the Kindle, iPad, Nook and other mainstream ebook readers. (See note below.) But the old fashioned computer will also do the job.

Music for Monday

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Ten Songs About Mondays :: Blogs :: List of the Day :: Paste:

Mondays are rough. Whether you’re a grumpy feline or an overworked office drone, it’s no fun dragging yourself back into your weekly routine after a couple days off.

If you’ve got a case of the Mondays and need a little nudge to get things headed in the right direction, give a listen to these songs that pay tribute to the most hated day of the week. And remember: There are only four more days until Friday.

Hometown paper profiles Mythbuster’s Tory Belleci

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Local boy paid to blow stuff up – MontereyHerald.com ::

When he was young, Tory Belleci would decorate his Monterey home for Halloween with severed limbs and human statues that would come alive to frighten trick-or-treaters.

Fourth of July was also a big holiday, when Tory and his father Andy Belleci would glue fireworks to wooden planks that shot off sparks and flares in all directions.

But one special-effects stunt involving explosives nearly landed Belleci in jail — and when he got a second chance, he wound up having success in television on the show “MythBusters.”

From Twitter 10-02-2010

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On October 3, 2010

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  • 09:24:48: @PhilKMills I call those “piano chords”, in the sense that, as a guitarist, the only way I can figure to play them is on a piano.

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I think I might have to buy two copies of this.  One for myself, and one for my Mom, who is (or was at one time) a fan of both Phil Collins -and- Motown.  (In fact, it was her record collection that got me into Motown in the first place, and finding out Collins was the lead singer of Genesis is the only reason she agreed to take me to see them in concert when I was a teenager. *grin*)

Phil Collins: ‘Going Back’ To Motown : NPR:

One such classic is Martha Reeves and the Vandellas’ “Heat Wave.” He says the song encapsulates the entire Motown sound for him.

“It’s just got that optimistic [sound], and you can feel the sun coming out,” he says.

Collins’ versions stay true to the original arrangements and instrumentation. He says he never lost track of the fact that he was trying to emulate these songs rather than change or update them.

“The most important thing to me was actually getting them to sound authentic,” Collins says. “I didn’t really want to mess with the arrangements. I didn’t really want to mess with the kind of instrumentation. For me, I just wanted to see if it was possible to re-create a feeling that I had when I first heard these records.”

From Twitter 10-01-2010

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On October 2, 2010

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  • 07:14:10: Slept for 12 hours last night. I think I must have needed that.
  • 08:13:45: @JohnFugelsang Somewhere, there’s a “Mama Said Knock You Out” parody waiting to be written by someone…
  • 09:07:18: @mattyglesias @ezraklein It would be fairly trivial to do as a web app. The %s of budget are known, so easy to calculate for any amount.
  • 11:03:22: @rslatkin Nights In Murfreesboro is the name of my new country/western jazz band.
  • 11:27:46: @ljellis Because you’re not on Facebook, that’s how. Makes you an easy target!
  • 11:58:18: @mariancall If you check the labels, you’ll find a lot of that history was imported from Europe back in the 17th and 18th century. 😉
  • 13:15:29: @JewelStaite #CSINY is one of my don’t-miss shows. Glad to see AJ getting some more screen time!
  • 13:49:50: @mariancall Perhaps someone can ship those to one of your upcoming stops?
  • 23:00:40: @catvalente Oh dear. Am I going to have to treat Glee like I did Heroes, and cherish the first season while pretending there weren’t more?
  • 23:41:38: @catvalente I could *maybe* see Richard Thompson’s cover of “Oops I Did It Again” provoking that reaction, but not Schuster & co doing Toxic

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I admit, I do rather like pizza…

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On October 1, 2010

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So, who wants to go in with me on some pizza, hmm?

To Slide or to Slice? Finding a Positive Sexual Metaphor | Scarleteen:

Since the baseball metaphor has so many problems with it, Vernacchio created another metaphor that is much more holistic, inclusive… and tasty.

He suggests that instead of baseball, we get a template of sexuality from pizza.

Almost everyone likes pizza.
It’s got little in common with baseball, but a whole lot in common with sex.

You don’t have to be young or popular or skilled in any way to be good at eating pizza. It’s a sensual experience, like sex, that most people enjoy. Eating pizza involves the same senses as sex—it’s a full body experience.

People eat pizza because they want to. As with sex, we have a hunger for pizza (“Let’s have pizza!”) and we eat it when we have that hunger. It has to do with personal anticipation and excitement, not someone else’s ideas about how or when we should or shouldn’t eat pizza.

A Month of TV Commentary: A Meme in 30 Parts: Day 15

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On October 1, 2010

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Day 15 – Favorite female character

Wow. This one is hard. (“That’s what SHE said…” “Shut up.”)

Even if I limit this to favourite female character in a show I’m currently watching, it’s a hard choice. Alyson Hannigan’s sweetly sexy Lily on How I Met Your Mother, Kaley Cuoco’s down-to-earth Penny on The Big Bang Theory. Jayma Mays’s neurotic Emma on Glee, Tiffani Thiessen’s sensible Elizabeth on White Collar…There’s a lot to choose from.

In the end, though, I’m going to pick Stana Katic’s Detective Kate Beckett on ABC’s Castle. Katic’s Beckett is smart, tough, and drop-dead gorgeous. The chemistry between her and Nathan Fillion’s Richard Castle is incredible, and she’s capable of saying more with a look than anyone on television. I’ve seen Beckett and Castle have entire conversations without speaking a word, which is really awesome.

I considered who I might pick if I opened this up to female characters from any show ever, but I don’t think I could begin to narrow it down to a top 10, let alone a single favourite. So I’ll stick with my self-imposed limitation of choosing from things I’m currently watching. Because it’s my journal, and I’m allowed to do that. 🙂

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Pianist Transcribes Complete Super Mario Bros. Score

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Pianist Transcribes Complete Super Mario Bros. Score | GameLife | Wired.com:

Joseph Karam has worked for several months to create a comprehensive transcription of Koji Kondo’s score to the original Super Mario Bros.

Karam was keen to understand how to play Mario themes and sound effects from the 1985 videogame, but could find no definitive score. Nintendo has never published an official version, but dozens of amateurs had created their own transcriptions — none of which replicated the score adequately, according to Karam.

From Twitter 09-30-2010

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  • 07:26:05: o/~ Cold pizza for breakfast / Warm Coke to wash it down (Ahhhh) o/~
  • 07:34:20: @aiela For all that you look grumpy, that’s actually a nice photo.
  • 08:50:13: @TanyaHuff There’s room to be MORE boring. Next, you could dream about ASSEMBLING the IKEA furniture you bought in the last dream.
  • 09:01:38: @mrscottfletcher But @randydeluxe is not the pine scented air. There’s just no way he’s the pine scented air.
  • 09:41:47: Dear Facebook iPhone client: I guess it’s ok to refresh without asking. It’s not ok to lose my place when you do. No love, Me
  • 10:08:06: RT @FakeAPStylebook “Tortuous” means “twisty”; “torturous” means “painful, like torture.” Both describe the next M. Night Shyamalan film
  • 10:17:20: @maccasecrettwitteracct Don’t blame @scalzi – It’s hard to get fresh bagels in rural Ohio.
  • 10:24:41: @seananmcguire It’s early yet. There’s still hope.
  • 10:39:58: @mariancall I warned you that cthulhumail.com was that kind of ISP, but did you listen to me? #noyoudidnt
  • 10:51:54: @extralife When Blizz announces date, it will be on website in font readable from space. All dates before that are pure conjecture.
  • 10:53:29: @catvalente And you continue to look like that, while the you in the original photo gets older and older?
  • 12:15:32: @ferretthimself Perhaps the card’s art depicts Titania, rather than the priest himself?
  • 12:22:28: @ferretthimself Perhaps the high priest of Titania is on his way back from a midnight showing of Rocky Horror and hasn’t had time to change?
  • 14:21:44: @rslatkin Because you never before needed to punch an electric hole? (I’ve had days like that…)

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