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12/01/2008
Pearls of Remembrance (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
History is rarely neat. Everything is so interconnected to everything else -- both sideways as well as frontward and backwise in time -- that history books tend either to focus on some tiny minutia of a factoid, or they grow, like the Blob, into sprawling encyclopedias. To the enthusiastic researcher, everything is cool and interesting.
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12/01/2008
Noted astronomy professor and researcher to speak at Bethel College (The Newton Kansan)
A noted teacher of astronomy and the history of science and a Newton High School graduate, on his way to Texas to receive a prestigious prize, will stop off first in North Newton to deliver two lectures.
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11/27/2008
Serbia emotional about sale of its oldest publisher (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Serbia launched on Thursday a tender for a sale of a 70 percent stake in Belgrade's oldest publisher, provoking emotional reactions among book lovers who fear losing a publisher known for high quality encyclopedias.
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11/30/2008
How to Publish Without Perishing (New York Times)
Even in the digital age, books have a chance for new life: as a physical object, and as an idea, and as a set of literary forms.
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11/30/2008
Northern People: 'Best job I ever had' (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
Long after all the other shops are shuttered for the night, light bounces off the warm wood floors and cherry cabinets at Brilliant Books and spills from the windows onto Suttons Bay's quaint main street. The "little blue bookstore with no shelves" as it was initially dubbed when their delivery was delayed, has quickly become a part of the community's fabric.
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11/27/2008
Serbia emotional about sale of its oldest publisher (Reuters via Yahoo!Xtra News)
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia launched on Thursday a tender for a sale of a 70 percent stake in Belgrade's oldest publisher, provoking emotional reactions among book lovers who fear losing a publisher known for high quality encyclopedias.
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11/28/2008
Joy Fund begins today (The Shreveport Times)
Despite the economy, The Times is launching this year's Joy Fund with its largest-ever goal. The fundraising drive, which gives local agencies money to fund holiday projects, hopes to raise $110,000.
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11/28/2008
Nassau Library System Offers Free Books on Cassette (Syosset - Jericho Tribune)
Although all of the public libraries in Nassau County are independent and make their own decisions about which services they will offer and how they will deliver those services to their communities, the Nassau Library System and the Suffolk Cooperative Library System co-sponsor some services including the Long Island Talking Book Library.
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11/27/2008
Westford Rotary donates dictionaries (Westford Eagle)
Westford third-graders excitedly buried their noses in books this week thanks to the Westford Rotary.
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11/25/2008
Police break up counterfeit money ring in Colombia (Channel NewsAsia)
MADRID - Police have dismantled an international counterfeit money ring based in Colombia that produced millions in fake dollar and euro bills which they shipped to Europe hidden inside encyclopedias, Spanish police who took part in the operation said Monday.
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| Citizendium - Wiki with stricter editing rules and obligatory disclosure of editor's real names.Connected: An Internet Encyclopedia - The engineering, theoretical concepts, and organizations of the Internet (freely distributable).Cunnan - An encyclopedia for reenactors of the Middle Ages and Renaissance period with a heavy slant towards members of the Society for Creative Anachronism.dKosopedia - A collaborative project of the DailyKos community to build a political encyclopedia.Everything2 - An extensively hyperlinked collection of facts, ideas, notes and humor to which anyone can add.Memory Alpha - A peer edited Star Trek encyclopedia.Musipedia - A collaborative music encyclopedia. Contains melodies and musical themes from classical, popular, and folk music. Can be searched based on the melody alone, either by playing it on a keyboard, whistling or singing, or by entering the melodic contour as Parsons Code.Open Site - A volunteer-run open content encyclopedia.PlanetMath - Collaborative, peer-reviewed mathematics encyclopedia with TeX input, inspired by MathWorld (GNU Free Documentation License).Plastics Wiki - Wiki-based website dedicated to plastics technology, polymer materials, equipment and other things related to polymers and plastics.SourceWatch - A directory of people, organizations and issues shaping the public agenda. It catalogs PR firms, activist groups and government agencies as well as the criticisms that are made of these groups from different perspectives.Technomanifestos Network - Collaborative resource on the history of computing and the Internet (GNU Free Documentation License), and the online companion to the book Technomanifestos.Wikipedia Article - Nupedia - Nupedia was a public peer-reviewed general encyclopedia created by volunteer scholars, with resources for readers and contributors (GNU Free Documentation License). It can be considered to be Wikipedia's direct ancestor.
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