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“Honour commercio’s energy yet aid the linkless proud, the plurable with everybody.” — Finnegans Wake

Google responds to privacy issues : CEO Eric Schmidt “expressed regret—especially to Patricia Fort, a single mother taking care of Jordan, Sam, and Rebecca, ages 3, 7, and 9″ (via the Onion)
Oscar Villalon leaves McSweeney’s : Beyond that not much [...]

“Every separation is a link.” — Simone Weil

Crayola’s increasing complexity: that links to the discussion, here’s the image
A facebook campaign to get Tess ungrounded : What activism has come to in 2010
Divorce rates are higher in states with gay marriage bans : Preserving the sanctity of divorce
In related news : Gay couples are not so [...]

“Think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.” — Charles Dickens

Marcel Duhamel’s writing advice : No thoughts, just action
The singular “they” : Its lineage is more distinguished than you [...]

“Every separation is a link.” — Simone Weil

How long to it take to produce a book? : Production folks weigh in
Hilarity in publishing? : CBS is banking on it
Meet the gimmick books : High concept, low content
Google Books needs a good librarian : Or were Raymond Chandler’s Killer in the Rain, The Portable Dorothy Parker, [...]

“Honour commercio’s energy yet aid the linkless proud, the plurable with everybody.” — Finnegans Wake

Zebra tables and lists : Are alternating bands a good idea in table design?
Wikipedia to require editing approval : The democratic dream dies, I guess
Rejections — what to make of them? : Some writing is “engaging” and “enjoyable” but just not [...]

“Think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.” — Charles Dickens

Yale UP capitulates : See also my publishing glossary under “spine”
The F-Word : A lot of mileage in that [...]

“Think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.” — Charles Dickens

Google Traffic Throttling : Does G traffic get shut off once you hit your designated plateau?
Phasing out textbooks : [...]

“Honour commercio’s energy yet aid the linkless proud, the plurable with everybody.” — Finnegans Wake

The Unofficial Thomas Pynchon Guide to Los Angeles : Annotated with videos pictures, and commentary
Princeton Online Arabic Poetry Project : Five great poets
Designer Bookbinders’ First International Competition : “The best are like water” — Laozi
An expensive book : Moon rocks [...]

“Every separation is a link.” — Simone Weil

Art, God, and copyright : Is copyright discouraging creativity?
Amazon’s Bezos Apologizes : “Stupid, thoughtless”
Introducing LGoogle : The plex joins the beltway
Martin Engelbrecht’s home theater shows : From the 18th c.
Down with verdana? : Another attempt at embedding fonts in web pages
A lost Caslon type : Long Primer No. [...]

“Every separation is a link.” — Simone Weil

Two authors tell reviewers where to get off : ““I will hate you till the day I die and wish you nothing but ill will in every career move you make.”
Separated by a common language : Do Brits and Yanks place adverbs differently (or do they differently place [...]

“Every separation is a link.” — Simone Weil

Designer Humor : heartfelt message using Papyrus
Bitterness as mental illness : Post Traumatic Bitterness Syndrome
Why retranslate? : Well, why not?
Sex with ducks : “Gonna Huey, Dewey, and Louie all over the room”
Sex with flowers : The bee’s knees (photo at Frisco Vista)
The Treasury of Ornament : Love ‘em [...]

“Honour commercio’s energy yet aid the linkless proud, the plurable with everybody.” — Finnegans Wake

Books from heaven : Books from earth
25 Intriguing Facts About Gabriel García Márquez : For example, his mother is most proud of “having a daughter who is a nun.”
Wikipedia hoax points to limits of journalists’ research : Wikipedia is the new [...]

“Honour commercio’s energy yet aid the linkless proud, the plurable with everybody.” — Finnegans Wake

Book tour hits 100 indie bookstores : Smart idea
Times are tough in the belly of the beast : Simon & Schuster has rough first quarter
Typographica : Relaunched with a new look
Designing a typeface for the Guggenheim : “unchecked, this might have [...]

“Honour commercio’s energy yet aid the linkless proud, the plurable with everybody.” — Finnegans Wake

Designing for Google : It’s not a design-oriented company
How Designers Fail : Let me count the ways
The meaning of “free” : Money guy thinks book publishers are heading in wrong direction
Advice from a Professional Book Repairer : I never knew Ingram [...]

“If Folly link with Elegance no man knows which is which.” – William Butler Yeats

MLA style guide gives up on urls, says just describe the source : Is this the end of scholarship as we knew it?
School of Quitetube : link to a YouTube video on an uncluttered page
Mariah Carey is suddenly a rare book [...]

“Every separation is a link.” — Simone Weil

“Newspaper publishers are idiots” : So says Dvorak (who has made some howlers of his own over the years)
Six projects that could change publishing for the better : A slide talk by Michael Tamblyn
The ultimate French intellectual : Hint: his wife was a friend of the Mallarmés and [...]

“If Folly link with Elegance no man knows which is which.” – William Butler Yeats

Collectanea Botanica : Illustrated herbals are the perfection of print publishing
Are the Humanities Becoming Irrelevant? : Maybe we need a new vocabulary for addressing this perennial question
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream : Get cosy with the Folger Shakespeare Library
Locusts and biblipphiles [...]

I have been busy constructing an index to my 7 Junipers site, which is devoted to Asian Art and Culture. The index in process is accessed via one of the site’s navigation tabs. Tag clouds are often seen in sidebars, but I think they work better as pages. At 7J I made a brief post [...]

“Every separation is a link.” — Simone Weil

In celebration of the farmer poet : But no Wendell Berry?
What’s on Bruce Springsteen’s Bookshelves? : Books, I’m guessing
Don’t Work for Arseholes : Excellent advice from Derek Powazek
Internet Famous Class : When your grade depends on getting famous
Books and the web : Together at last?
The poems of Barack [...]

“Honour commercio’s energy yet aid the linkless proud, the plurable with everybody.” — Finnegans Wake

Book publishing, literature, and the economy : Is it the end of days?
The demise of dead tree media and the future of PR : “”Public relations is a fluid concept”
Another great bookshop closes : Harry W Schwartz, Milwaukee
7 Publishing Myths : [...]