A beautiful day today, too nice to sit at a computer, so this will be quick.
Check out the finalists in the Librareo video contest. The winner will be announced at the ALA conference next weekend (anyone going btw? I’m not but if you are let me know so i can live vicariously). The winner receives $2500 for themselves and another $2500 will go to the school or public library of their choice. I am torn between the complete goofiness of Barbara Tuchman and the professionalism of Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse. Harold and the Purple Crayon just plain scares me.
Creeping inarticulateness. The sentence sentenced to death. What is the world coming to? Blah, blah, blah.
For all you writer folk out there: 100 Web Tools for Writers.
As if any of us needed a reason to read, here are 50. Send the link to all your non-reading friends. Or create a flyer and stick it on the windshields of all the cars at the mall. Or just feel self-satisfied because we already knew all this.
Is it nice where you are? Go out and enjoy it!
Hi Stefanie,
The loss of the sentence. What’s next – vocabulary reduced to cliche? Acronyms?
Maybe we’re already there.
BCNU
That ‘death of the sentence’ article really is just ‘blah, blah, blah’. I’m not at all convinced by the guy who says claims students are getting brighter, they just can’t express themselves in coherent sentences. I mean, how can he tell?
Enjoy the lovely weather. Not so nice here in London.
The weather here has been beautiful too — 70s and dry, except for occasional thunderstorms, which are fun. I don’t blame you for wanting to stay away from your computer to enjoy the nice weather!
Yes, the beautiful weather has been so welcome after all that hideous heat! Having recently read _A Uncommon Reader_, I can say I completely agree with “50 Reasons to Read More.” (Not that I wouldn’t have agreed if I hadn’t just finished UR, but UR did such a nice job of incorporating the same points.)