The Travelin' Librarian

Peer-to-peer is legal!

Well, it is in The Netherlands anyway…
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Dean koontz book updates

Today I’ve added to completely new entries thanks to Alan Clark. The first is an essay titled “Situation Critical” published in Writer’s Yearbook 85. The second is an untitled essay published as a guest editorial in the June 1990 issue of Afraid: The Newsletter for the Horror Professional. (This one is interesting as Dean calls for the disolving of the Stoker awards due to horror authors being way to whiny and self-absorbed.) I’ve also added a bunch of new reveiws for Every Day’s a Holiday, Paper Doorway, One Door Away From Heaven, and Odd Thomas. Lastly I’ve filled in informaiton on the unpublished books Storm Front and Cold Terror.

Oh, and here’s a quote from “Situation Critical” for those of you interested in Dean’s writing about vampires.

“Now, Mr. King published Carrie, his first book, in 1975, by which time I had at least 25 novels already in print, several of which dealt with vampires, werewolves, and things that go bump in the night.”

Big sales

Here’s some more spam fun. According to these subject lines for messages that were advertising the exact same product, in the exact same way, they’re selling about 61,390,006 units a minute.

Airport Secutiry

MSNBC has made this test available. You have two minutes. Can you find the threats as a baggage screener?

Tension sheet

Virtual Bubblewrap
Thanks Louise!

Dean koontz book update

I’ve started receiving information from my “information needed” list from a few select individuals. I’ve also updated the list so check it out if you haven’t recently.

Don’t trust the librarian

First they want to have the librarians controll all access to the net. So finally we make some decisions and then get burned for it. According to this article from Click2Houston.com the mayor of Huston has ordered that a link to Go Ask Alice on the library’s site be removed. Now he’s going to “have a task force investigate all of the links on the library’s Web site.” I wonder if any librarians will be on this taskforce.

Somewhat hypocritical

Check out who sent this cigarette spam…

New design

I’ve redesigned the The Greece Historical Society & Museum site. Check it out.

More spam text

Here’s another bit of text form the bottom of a piece of spam. This one in regards to a mortgage.

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