Yostivanich

“Recently, a library patron chal­lenged (urged a recon­sid­er­a­tion of the own­er­ship or place­ment of) a book called “Uncle Bobby’s Wed­ding.” Hon­estly, I hadn’t even heard of it until that com­plaint. But I did read the book, and responded to the patron, who chal­lenged the item through email and requested that I respond online (not via snail-mail) about her con­cerns.” Awe­some to read.

What hap­pens when the per­son mak­ing your t-shirts has a crisis?

“Dur­ing the Clin­ton impeach­ment cir­cus, I walked by William Safire’s lair.” Fun col­umn about William Safire.

“The Ogori cafe was an unfor­get­table travel moment, and an idea that has stuck with me: It was a com­plete sur­prise in our day. It encour­aged com­mu­ni­ca­tion between total strangers or, in this case, mem­bers of the Kashiwa com­mu­nity and a cou­ple of weird guys from Ore­gon. It forced one to “let go”, just for a brief moment, of the total con­trol we’re so used to exert­ing through com­merce. It led you to taste some­thing new, that you might not nor­mally have ordered. It was a delight.” So cool.

See the night sky.

Save the Children.

“Mozilla exec­u­tives today took shots at Google for pitch­ing its Chrome Frame plug-in as a solu­tion to Inter­net Explorer’s poor per­for­mance, with one argu­ing that Google’s move will result in “browser soup.” The Mozilla reac­tion puts the com­pany that builds Fire­fox on the same side of the debate as rival Microsoft, which has also blasted Google over the plug-in.”

“Fox News’ Glenn Beck has bragged that “[m]y cred­i­bil­ity means every­thing to me,” and that he has “some of the biggest minds in Amer­ica” on his research team “work­ing harder than … any staff ever on tele­vi­sion” to get the truth out, but Beck fre­quently gets his facts wrong. For instance, in recent weeks Beck has falsely claimed Van Jones was a “con­victed felon”; repeated Andrew Breitbart’s false claim that an online video showed com­mu­nity orga­niz­ers from the Gamaliel Foun­da­tion “pray[ing]” to Pres­i­dent Obama; claimed an obso­lete con­sti­tu­tional pro­vi­sion pro­tect­ing the slave trade applies to “immi­grants”; and, most recently, claimed a “Class of 2007″ mosaic painted on tiles out­side a Cal­i­for­nia school was car­ried by G-20 pro­test­ers in Pitts­burgh this week.”

Totally can’t have a higher pager­anked site or I’ll sue.

“The US has signed a four-page “affir­ma­tion of com­mit­ments” with the net reg­u­la­tor Icann, giv­ing the body auton­omy for the first time.” Cool to hear, though I want some more infor­ma­tion on it.