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National Libraries: Turkey: Ankara’s National Library project helps the visually impaired

From the article: The National Library in Ankara has implemented a project to offer audio recordings of books according to the needs of the visually impaired. For visually disabled people, books are...

Free part day at Big Blue Saw August 6th

http://www.bigbluesaw.com/saw/big-blue-saw-blog/general-updates/free-part-day-august-6.htmlNo idea if there's a better spot to place this, but I'm sure some of you can come up with something that...

Dance of Longing

Oh, you glorious men.Litter my landscape with your luminous bodies.Raise your voices in rapturous rhythmsuntil my heart takes wingand your song has painted a rainbowof love in the space...

Book Review: Your Brain - The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald

A comprehensive guide to your brain, how it works, and how you can work with it. The Wizard of Oz always puzzled me as a child. If the scarecrow didn’t have a brain, how was he moving around...

How big a mess are we in?

Certainly not one our Congress can’t make worse. We have a market where housing prices are in free fall, where the last thing we want shaky institutions to have more exposure to is mortgages...

Cartoon: Dinosaurs & Cloud Computing

There's a panicky voice inside me that wonders, whenever the power is knocked out for more than a minute or so, if this is it: the failure of the grid, the fall of civilization, the end of all...

Bang A Gong

The John Edwards Dick-Sop While Poor Lizzie's Tits Rot Off Episode: Kaus was the only one to ever take seriously. Wow.

Playfish: Using Facebook As Its Gaming Console

If you glance at the top lineup of gaming applications on the Facebook or MySpace platform, you’ll notice an interesting fact. Not one is the product of a major gaming publisher. Instead a...

Eagle Pique Polo Shirts

We’re all for men in bold colors, so we’re loving American Eagle’s selection of pique polo shirts. Pick one up in bright yellow–or grass green. Another great option? Blood...

Q&A: What to Wear on Vacation in Southeast Asia

Q: I’m going to Southeast Asia for a month in September, and I know that I have to wear long trousers and if possible long shirts because of mosquitoes and the danger of malaria.  I fear...