According to the YouTube page, this 1m45s film is the only known footage of southern author Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain). It was taken in 1909 at Stormfield, Connecticut.
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1 librarian + 1 librarian + 1 librarian + …
A gaggle of geese. A pack of dogs. A pod of whales. Over at PhiloBiblos they are wondering what do you call a group of librarians?
{via fadetheory}
Another new book I’m looking forward to
The new (supposedly expanded) edition of Don Tapscott’s Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything comes out April 17th! I’m not sure how much expansion they could do from the first edition, unless they just update the case studies. There has been so much in the past 18 months will social and group-think sites, that it has become obvious, to even the most stuck-in-the-mud businesses, that collaboration is the future.
Let me know if you run across any advance reviews out there. I’d like to read them and see if the new edition is worth buying.
Headed to the big screen…
I just read that Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union will be adapted to film by the Coen brothers.
I also just read in the latest issue of Bookmarks magazine that Chabon has a non-fiction book hitting the stores in March.