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This house on the beach in Venice, California, has no doors (on its upper story), and the walls are made up of bookshelves and storage units.
Read about it at BLDG BLOG.

My nomadism is concluded for the moment, and I will resume more regular blogging tomorrow morning.

According to Graham at Linguism, some people think Belgium is an adjective. Well, whatever. What struck me about his post was his claim that “most people find it difficult to name ten famous Belgians without falling back on Tintin and Hercule Poirot.”

One of Belgium’s problems in the competition for famous representatives is that it is such a young country, formed in 1830-1831.

Right Reading is taking some time off. If circumstances allow I may make the occasional post, but posting will be, at best, light for the next couple of weeks. After that: recharged!

Back soon.

Right Reading is on a short summer vacation. (I might do some posting just the same, depending on how things go.)
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This is via Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s twitter account. He writes “These ladies are amazing athletes -even back in the day!” Be patient — the fun starts about one minute in.
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“Every separation is a link.” — Simone Weil

From Kindle to brick : For less than $400
Virtual bibliogeekery : Contribute to Project Gutenberg
Putting on (Scottish) airs: Rare book belonging to Robert Burns discovered
Some thoughts on book marketing : Truth is, you’ll probably have to do most of it yourself
Writers’ desks : Not sure who most of [...]

Having dunked my trusty Canon A620 in the waters of Pomonkey Creek, I was reduced to shooting this ghost type in Alexandria, Verginia, with my cell phone.

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

Does Kindle violate authors’ audio rights? : New text-to-speech function
More on Kindle’s text-to-speech feature : Wilkert leaning to IPhone instead
Walker design blog : Getting interesting
2009 Best Translated Book winners : According to Three Percent
How to sell books in a recession : [...]

So many people admire John Updike — one local editors says he should win the Nobel for literature — that I am almost afraid to voice my dissenting opinion that he will one day be viewed as one of the twentieth century’s most overrated authors. “I like middles,” Updike once asserted, whereas I prefer borders.
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This image of Anne (with ukulele) and Carol (with cell phone) on the beach on Anna Maria Island has been run through the Obamicon.me machine.
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I might be without internet for about a week. I haven’t built up a reservoir of posts because I’ve been working on other stuff, so posting will be light. Be back soon.
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We all know we should keep our webware up to date to avoid security vulnerabilities. But some of us get careless sometimes and let things slide.
Bad idea. Hackers entered this site through my publishing wiki. The wiki had not been very active lately (it’s hard to get a gaggle of publishing people together on anything), [...]

The free market isn’t really free.
But it’s not worth much.
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If Folly link with Elegance no man knows which is which … – William Butler Yeats

Fauxcabulary : It’s megagaltastic
How to Say Nothing in 500 Words : A step-by-step guide
Second-guessing Borges’s translation of Woolf : From a feminist pespective
Radar launches : Geo-based aggregator
Society of Authors lists top translations of past half century : We’re no. 36 [...]

Huge, aren’t they? See them at the National Building Museum.
Kind of a random post, but I’m on the road and don’t have a lot of time for internet. Here’s another view of this remarkable building:

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Links

Absolute or Relative URLs?
Borders Eliminates 274 Spots
Using Amazon sales ranks for market analysis
Which cover is better?
Lexicographie is online …
… but who owns French?
Coming soon: Typeface, the movie

Duly quoted

“Harry Potter had more problems dealing with Voldemort than what we have dealing with the media and the Celtics.” — Kobe Bryant

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Mr. Wright Reading has a lot on his plate. He’d better get a grip soon.
Photo from FlickrJunkie’s photostream.
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Now they can take a little piece of their work home with them in the form of this lovely comma pendant.

(Just don’t correct that “they” to “he or she.”)
(And no, I don’t want the post recast in the plural.)
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via Swiss Miss
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