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2008 Nobel Laureate for Literature Announced

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

And the award goes to…Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, whose work defined him as an “author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization.” To read more about Le Clezio’s life and writing, please visit the Nobel Foundation’s site.

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Don’t Miss the Nobel Prize for Literature!

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

For me, this is so much more exciting than those silly Olympic Games–check out the announcement tomorrow for the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for literature.
Watch the live webcast from the Swedish Academy, Stockholm, Sweden, on Thursday, October 9, 1:00 p.m. CET, 11:00 a.m. GMT, at the earliest. Following the announcement, an interview [...]

ReCAPTCHA’s so cool…

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

My afternoon has been spent trying to stop spam in Biblio.com’s forums. Stopping spam is usually a thankless job. Today it was fun.
ReCAPTCHA is an interesting take on proving you are human. It displays two words from pages that could not be OCR’d. One word is known and the other is not. Each user enters [...]

Laying siege to your local library

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Make no mistake, in the world of books, there is no idyllic indian summer. No lazy dog days’ afternoons. No sweet corn harvest. No last minute dash to the coast. For this is the beginning of the Library Sale Wars. This is the time that tries the souls of booklovers. [...]