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	<title>Tim McCormick</title>
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		<title>Reading Japanese Candy, and 9/11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Japanese candy wrapper flies plane into World Trade Center again.  Here&#8217;s a wrapper (unfolded) for a pack of Japanese Morinaga-brand &#8220;Hi-chew&#8221; candy.

and here it is again, with the center frame highlighted:

Looking closer at the center panels, we can see that the backdrop is clearly lower Manhattan, with the Bank of New York at left (and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tjm.org/2010/07/13/reading-japanese-candy-and-911/</link>
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		<title>How to construct a Chinese lattice screen using the letters of your name</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the recent International Contemporary Furniture Fair, my favorite item was not any of the high-priced furniture and decor items, but an ingenious student project.  It was featured in the Designboom Mart, sponsored by global design organization Designboom, in which winners of an international student design competition offered their low-priced items for sale.

The project I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tjm.org/2010/06/02/how-to-construct-a-chinese-lattice-screen-using-the-letters-of-your-name/</link>
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		<title>God on the Go</title>
		<description><![CDATA[this is real, as far as I can tell.  A different take on the e-book,  God on the Go (pictured) contains the entire NRSV Bible, plus reading software, on a thumb-sized flash drive.  Wherever you may be, just plug in to have your scriptures.   on Amazon, $39.95.


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		<link>http://tjm.org/2010/05/27/god-on-the-go/</link>
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		<title>the return of LiteraryCritic, sort of</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I used to collect bibliographic lists &#8212; Modern Library 100 best novels, for example &#8212; and put them up at my site LiteraryCritic.com.  This was back in 2000 or so, back when I and the Web were young. For years it attracted book hunters who clicked from my pages through to Amazon, earning me commissions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tjm.org/2010/05/18/the-return-of-literarycritic-sort-of/</link>
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		<title>The Most Cited Books in 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Global information publisher Thomson Reuters recently collected citations from the journal literature it indexed in 2007 &#8212; mainly academic / peer-reviewed journals &#8212; to books and their authors.  Below is the list of the most-cited works/authors in the humanities and social sciences.  (in the sciences, the journal rather than the book is the main communication [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tjm.org/2010/05/13/the-most-cited-books-in-2007/</link>
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		<title>Art is the Science of Freedom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;To make people free is the aim of art, therefore art for me is the science of freedom&#8230;I wish to go more and more outside to be among the problems of nature and problems of human beings in their working places.&#8221; ~Joseph Beuys.
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		<link>http://tjm.org/2010/04/23/art-is-the-science-of-freedom/</link>
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		<title>West Coast Album, 2000</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was digging around for some old photographs, and came across an online album of photos and commentary I did after a 3-week trip up the West Coast in 2000.  All organized by location, indexed, with bibliography and template design.  First, I can&#8217;t believe how much effort I put into it.  Second, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tjm.org/2010/04/16/west-coast-album-2000/</link>
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		<title>Martin Murrillo, mobile cart librarian in Cartegena</title>
		<description><![CDATA[great BBC radio piece profiling self-initiated mobile library cart operator Martin Murrillo, in Cartegena, Columbia.
&#8220;After earning his living as a Cartegena street vendor selling water, Martin decided to  not only to teach himself, but to also teach others &#8211; especially street children  &#8211; to read.
&#8220;He swapped the water for books that people can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tjm.org/2010/01/14/martin-murrillo-mobile-cart-librarian-in-cartegena/</link>
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		<title>latest New Yorker cover: ripoff of Powells Books?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
The October 19 cover of The New Yorker features a painting by Eric Drooker, titled &#8220;In the World of Books&#8221;.   It&#8217;s very similar to the image used on the below sticker for Powells Books, in Portland, OR.   Actually, Powells has been producing posters and other goods with this theme for some years, in keeping with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tjm.org/2009/10/18/latest-new-yorker-cover-ripoff-of-powells-books/</link>
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		<title>1932 radio in the shape of books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1932 RCA Victor radio, designed to look like a row of books with bookends. Nice example of a new technology imitating an older one &#8212; like early radio and television imitating theater.

What I wonder is, did the makers or the buyers of this radio expect it would deceive anyone?  After all, you don&#8217;t have to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tjm.org/2009/10/12/1932-radio-in-shape-of-books/</link>
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