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O'Brien's The Things They Carried at Amazon

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xkcd's announcement of support for Obama
Toni Morrison's endorsement

xkcd, if you're not familiar, is a pretty great "webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language" (and computers and gaming and, if not libraries, a lot that pertains to them). Here's a link to one of my favorite strips--one with definite relevance to libraries right now: "Future"

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"Orson Scott Card Honored for Lifetime Contribution to Young Adult Readers" (ALA)
"Controversial Author Wins Edwards Award" at School Library Journal
"Orson Scott Card is a Big Fat Homophobe" at Free Range Librarian
"Politics and Literature" post and comments at The Annoyed Librarian

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Dogpile--metasearch engine that includes Google results
Blackle--Google "with the lights out," an energy saver
Wikipedia article on Professor Tara Brabazon

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Google is White Bread for the Mind, Teacher Says (at Mashable)

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a trifle, for Steven
American Idol's new season premieres tomorrow night

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Teen Chat Decoder

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NPR: Hotel Maids Challenge the Placebo Effect

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Something Queer at the Library by Elizabeth Levy (at amazon.com)

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(Apologies for the floating conversation bubbles in the last panel--a ToonDoo glitch I'll fix as soon as I can)

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"Generation Y Biggest Users of U.S. Libraries" (Reuters)

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Pew Report: "Information Searches that Solve Problems"