read a banned book!

this week is banned books week.

care to raise the blood pressure of the folks who want to take us back to the stone age? (or just in search of new reading material?)
check out the american library association's 2004 ten most challenged books, the 100 most frequently challenged books of 1990-2000 or just take advantage of the good folks at penn who put together a handy page full of banned books in digital format and a bit about the history of those books being banned.

and for those on a tight budget, i feel the need to plug project gutenberg again, seeing as that's where most of my "new" reading material comes from these days.

and just because i'm killing time while waiting for the computer to chug through some files, ( banned books meme )

skype?

anyone use it? good/bad? i'm looking to cut the phone bill. could definitely get my parents to use it, and it looks like skypeout is a better deal than what i pay bt...and i realize it's only in beta, but skypein would mean my grandmothers (and friends, and acquaintances, etc) could call me without paying international rates. (would try it out now but i'm at the office and have no microphone here.)

well, that brightens my evening slightly

delay indicted on criminal conspiracy charge
now let's see if the prosecutor can make it stick.

argh

they've gone and uglied up the $10 bill now.


if we have to have colored money, couldn't it at least be tasteful, pretty colored money? check out the euro. the pound. the yen. anything but these peices of crap.