In today’s lunchtime reading: libraries, more libraries and the worst people on the Internet. (Not you.)
Friday’s links take a look at robots in space and “futuristic” women.
On-the-ground accounts of the Zuccotti Park raid describe the dismantling of the movement’s library.
Another blue-skied weekend at Occupy Wall Street saw the usual congeries of activists, drummers, pontificators and sympathizers in lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park.
A few steps inside the stone-floored plaza at Zuccotti Park, crates filled with books lined the benches along a recessed wall. A volunteer swept leaves away from the benches in between organizing an ever-growing stack of volumes on the ground. This makeshift assembly of boxes is Occupy Wall Street’s official library.
Even after death, Kurt Vonnegut is circumventing the rules.
Thankfully the Camden Council’s public library in Sydney, Australia, shows mercy, because a $37,000 late fee just seems a bit much, don’t you think?
Our great country was defined by a few inalienable rights: “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness” — a pursuit that often feels more in reach when it involves drinking beer.
Were it returned any other week, the fine would have been $1,400.
When you think about viral video parodies, Brigham Young University might not immediately come to mind. But the school’s library produced an impressively made, hilarious spoof of Old Spice’s popular ad starring Isaiah Mustafa. To quote one YouTube commenter, “my brain is now diamonds.” Video at TheDailyWh.at.
