Monthly Archives: August 2008

Facebook | My Photos – Araluen

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Day in the life of a Portal Turret

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Amazon to aquire more innovative competitors.

Amazon.com is buying Shelfari, the social-networking site for book lovers announced in a blog post to its users Monday night. Terms of the deal were not immediately announced. The online e-tailer, which already owns a portion of Seattle-based Shelfari, helped … Continue reading

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Library Diaries

An American librarian has been fired for writing a novel about the ‘interesting’ people who use libraries.  Writing under the pseudonym ‘Ann Miketa’ the librarian published ‘The library diaries’.  She had been working at her library for 15 years, and is appealing the … Continue reading

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RAG events

Two Roman Archaeology Group (RAG) events coming up: Saturday 23rd August @ UWA – Food and Diet in the Roman World with free tastings Thursday 4th September@ UWA – ‘Satyrs and Centaurs’ by a visiting academic (not sure about the … Continue reading

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Book of the Week – Thorina Rose

Every week I get to process a few box-loads of brand new books.  And every week I’m going to tell you about the prettiest, most interesting or dumbest one.  My pick of the new exchange.  This week the chosen tome is … Continue reading

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ARRRR wins the race

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Thingology (LibraryThing’s ideas blog): Crowdsourcing Dr. Horrible, Jeff Atwood

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BUFFY: THE ANIMATED SERIES

The aborted animated look at Buffy Summers’ high school years has seeped into the always-absorbant Internet. Giselle Loren, who worked on a couple of “Buffy” videogames, assays the slayer while Alyson Hannigan, Nick Brendon and Anthony Head all returned to … Continue reading

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