Weekend Reading

From my news-aggregator subscription list... Paul Jones at ibiblio.org (featured in the Wired article below) may appreciate the juxtaposition:

Where Sharing Isn't a Dirty Word. The University of North Carolina has a wealth of information available on ibiblio, its massive digital library. And it's free. Michelle Delio reports from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. [Wired News]

'Lightning Man': Whose Line Is It, Anyway?. The historian Kenneth Silverman lays out with great thoroughness the troubled busy life of Samuel F. B. Morse, the telegraph's inventor. By Richard Brookhiser. [New York Times: Books]

'Doing Our Own Thing': Talk Is Cheap. John McWhorter charts Americans' mounting distrust of written English and the decline in oratory, poetry, music and thought. By Christopher Caldwell. [New York Times: Books]




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