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hypervocal: Zooey took a parting look at the page she had been reading, then closed the manuscript and dropped it over the side of the tub. “Jesus Christ almighty,” she said. “Sometimes I see me dead in the rain.” “Yes, that is you dead in the rain,” Siri retorted plainly. CLICK HERE FOR MORE EXCERPTS… For some reason this commercial has elicited strong feelings from lots of folks. Bravo, HyperVocal, IMHO this is by far the best response yet. 

hypervocal:

Zooey took a parting look at the page she had been reading, then closed the manuscript and dropped it over the side of the tub. “Jesus Christ almighty,” she said. “Sometimes I see me dead in the rain.”

“Yes, that is you dead in the rain,” Siri retorted plainly.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE EXCERPTS…

For some reason this commercial has elicited strong feelings from lots of folks. Bravo, HyperVocal, IMHO this is by far the best response yet. 

ilovecharts: meetups: I Love Charts is having an official Tumblr Meetup as their book release party. I Love Charts is written by Jason Oberholtzer and Cody Westphal with a forward by Tumblr founder David Karp. Pre-order the book here.  RSVP We are really excited for this party and hope to see all you New York Tumblrers there!  We can now confirm that (1) David Karp will be in attendance (2) Guest of a Guest will be there taking pictures (3) DJ Greenie will be on the ones and twos, or whatever you kids say these days.  Wish I could be there!!

ilovecharts:

meetups:

I Love Charts is having an official Tumblr Meetup as their book release party. I Love Charts is written by Jason Oberholtzer and Cody Westphal with a forward by Tumblr founder David Karp. Pre-order the book here. 

RSVP

We are really excited for this party and hope to see all you New York Tumblrers there! 

We can now confirm that (1) David Karp will be in attendance (2) Guest of a Guest will be there taking pictures (3) DJ Greenie will be on the ones and twos, or whatever you kids say these days. 

Wish I could be there!!

unconsumption: A group known as Book Swaps for London aims to establish a city-wide “book-sharing scheme in London’s tube and train stations.” Shelves are established in stations, and commuters can use them to pick up books they would like to read and drop off books that they want to give away. This scheme builds on already successful ones such as Bookcrossing and local pub and hostel swap schemes. (via Do The Green Thing: Books in unusual places) LOVE this. I sure could’ve used it when I lived in London….

unconsumption:

A group known as Book Swaps for London aims to establish a city-wide “book-sharing scheme in London’s tube and train stations.”

Shelves are established in stations, and commuters can use them to pick up books they would like to read and drop off books that they want to give away. This scheme builds on already successful ones such as Bookcrossing and local pub and hostel swap schemes.

(via Do The Green Thing: Books in unusual places)

LOVE this. I sure could’ve used it when I lived in London….

emergentfutures: The Next Time Someone Says the Internet Killed Reading Books, Show Them This Chart “Remember the good old days when everyone read really good books, like, maybe in the post-war years when everyone appreciated a good use of the semi-colon? Everyone’s favorite book was by Faulkner or Woolf or Roth. We were a civilized civilization. This was before the Internet and cable television, and so people had these, like, wholly different desires and attention spans. They just craved, craved, craved the erudition and cultivation of our literary kings and queens. Well, that time never existed. Check out these stats from Gallup surveys. In 1957, not even a quarter of Americans were reading a book or novel. By 2005, that number had shot up to 47 percent. I couldn’t find a more recent number, but I think it’s fair to say that reading probably hasn’t declined to the horrific levels of the 1950s.” Full Story: The Atlantic Awesome (though let’s be clear that this chart represents quantity not quality). Also, what was up with the early 1950s??

emergentfutures:

The Next Time Someone Says the Internet Killed Reading Books, Show Them This Chart

“Remember the good old days when everyone read really good books, like, maybe in the post-war years when everyone appreciated a good use of the semi-colon? Everyone’s favorite book was by Faulkner or Woolf or Roth. We were a civilized civilization. This was before the Internet and cable television, and so people had these, like, wholly different desires and attention spans. They just craved, craved, craved the erudition and cultivation of our literary kings and queens. 

Well, that time never existed. Check out these stats from Gallup surveys. In 1957, not even a quarter of Americans were reading a book or novel. By 2005, that number had shot up to 47 percent. I couldn’t find a more recent number, but I think it’s fair to say that reading probably hasn’t declined to the horrific levels of the 1950s.”

Full Story: The Atlantic

Awesome (though let’s be clear that this chart represents quantity not quality). Also, what was up with the early 1950s??

(via ilovecharts)