I just had to let the world know about this news. The South Park Studios has decided to put all episodes of the South Park Television series online for free. Of course you have to look at an ad before you can see the South Park Characters, but hey, that's not too bad. When I looked, the ad I was looking at only took about 30 s

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Ever wonder what to do with your old books? Here are some great ideas from building a bar to some weird looking art. This is part of a 3 part series on controlling inventory in your bookstore. This particular installment should be of interest to all book lovers. Part 1 and 2 are more specific to store owners. Book sellers will finds tons more

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Abe books recently announced that they will be adding a commission on every shipping charge. They explained, though nobody understands this, that it was done in order to decrease shipping charges. Everyone is asking How increasing a rate to sellers will have it cause a reduction in the rate offered to buyers. Makes no sense and

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If you love books like I do you have more than you have room for. A very clever solution was designed by Rodrigues Associates, Structural Engineers of London. They utilized the space under and behind the steps, which is normally wasted space, and added side shelves as well. The finishing touch was the skylight at the top. This

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I love reading. I love books. I own tons of books and I read as much as I possibly can. Even though I'm a movie nut there's very few movies that can compare to a good book. That's one of the reasons people are always saying "the book was better than the movie."

The truth is, books benefit us in so many ways that we don't even t

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If you've ever wondered what a triffid is, or who The Triffids were, then take a walk down memory lane as the author gives you the history of triffids, those dangerous beings that you don't want to find in your garden, and the history of The Triffids, those dangerous guys that you don't want to find with your daughter. It'

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Walter Sickert was born in Munich to a Danish father, Oswald Sickert, a painter and journalistic draftsman, and an English mother. Oswald emigrated with his family to England in 1868 to keep his sons from being conscripted into the German army. In 1875 Walter enrolled at King's College in London. In 1881 he entered the Slade S

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Books are amazing. While being ultra low-tech, they’re capable of conveying any story or idea. There is nothing that has not been written before. So why are we still writing stories?

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The author George MacDonald Fraser passed away recently, after a long battle with cancer, at the ripe old age of 82.

Fraser's lasting legacy is the series of Flashman books, chronicling the adventures of Victorian rogue and coward Sir Harry Flashman VC.

Digital Sickbag pays tribute to the great comic writer, and reveals how the notorio

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'How To Be Totally Miserable' by John Bytheway is a very unique little book, that will be a nice read for some folks. 'How To Be Totally Miserable' is a self help book written in reverse; instead guiding you on the path to bliss, it informs you

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What do you get when you fuse mechanical parts onto the arms and legs of a female special agent and implant a computer chip in her brain? You get one supercharged, kick butt, female killing machine with intelligence rivaling any genius on Earth. Or what used to be Earth.

This book introduces us to the new world, Otopia

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If anyone has been a student during the digital age, he/she will know, that using wikipedia as an essay source is a tabu in the academical circles. But the decision of a lecturer to ban her students from using online services, has raised some interesting issues: Should students be allowed to use wikipedia and google in their university essays

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The death of Flashman author George MacDonald Fraser this moth robbed the world of a fine literary talent, and in Victorian rogue Sir Harry Flashman, one of the best comic creations of recent memory.

As the writer of a Victorian-based blog myself, I have decided to pay tribute to the late Mr. Fraser by introducing Harry Flashman as a speci

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Aside from a couple of Fluffs, my brain was able to wrap itself around some pretty interesting and enlightening tomes last year.

I’ve placed the books into six categories, and then made a few comments on each. If the word sayonara appears after the author it means 1) I don’t recommend it and 2) it went straight to the Goodwill pile. I on

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This movie ‘Shutter Island‘ just keeps getting better and better looking. I read the book a few weeks ago and you can read the review if you want to get an idea about the plot behind the movie.

First you have Leonardo DiCaprio playing Teddy, and then Mark Ruffalo as Chuck. Next up is the head physician named Dr. Cawley which will reportedl

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An excellent book review of "The Skull Mantra", award-winning novel by Eliot Pattison about a Chinese detective in Tibet. This detective starts out in prison, and is a prisoner throughout the story, a complex murder mystery involving religious artifacts, suppressed monks and monasteries, foreign investors, and Chinese/Tibeta

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Throughout this entire season of Journeyman I’ve compared Dan Vasser’s time travelling as less of a Quantum Leap type of experience and instead a hybrid of the travelling in the books Replay and Slaughterhouse Five. The finale, however, had quite a few similarities to Replay and I’ve been thinking about it for awhile now. Even if you haven

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