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DBNL . Johan Huizinga, Homo ludens. Proeve eener bepaling van het spel-element der cultuur:
Homo ludens. Proeve eener bepaling van het spel-element der cultuur

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of course it isn’t translated to english, but…. it is an e-text.

Confessions of a Community College Dean: Hulk Respect Process!:
The Hulk would be good.

FACULTY: This is intolerable! This is an affront to academic freedom! This is tyranny!

HULK: Puny human! Hulk fair! Hulk respect process! RAAR! [Hulk crumples a nearby Toyota into a wad]

FACULTY: Eep!

HULK: Hulk college budget being cut? RAAR! Where capital? RAAR! HULK LOBBY! HULK LOBBY!

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some great responses:_

Linux.com | Linux to help the Library of Congress save American history:
The Library of Congress, where thousands of rare public domain documents relating to America’s history are stored and slowly decaying, is about to begin an ambitious project to digitize these fragile documents using Linux-based systems and publish the results online in multiple formats.

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The sloan foundation has funded this development. It uses scribe, which is a bookscanning system.

LiveLeak.com – Jesus Camp and George Bush:
Jesus Camp and George Bush

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Crap that’s scary…..

iCommons » Blog Archive » Ex Libris – 10 Great Open Book Sites:
This month, 10 of the Best goes into hibernation – autumn is well under way here in Johannesburg, so we’re cocooning, with a good book and a cup of tea.
Open books are about more than just finding some free literature and escaping library fees. They represent the enormous potential of the internet and open licensing to make knowledge, great words and beautiful stories available to everyone.

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I’ve been working with project gutenberg for years through CDDC. the other ones are good too, as is sense publishing in the netherlands, which gives away electronic copies of its books.

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Serenity named top sci-fi movie:
Serenity named top sci-fi movie
Alan Tudyk, Gina Torres and Nathan Fillion in Serenity
Serenity starred Nathan Fillion (r) as former sergeant Malcolm Reynolds
Space thriller Serenity has beaten Star Wars to the title of best sci-fi movie in an SFX magazine poll of 3,000 fans.

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it is the best… better than star wars by far…

PistolWimp – SNL TV Funhouse: Maraka:
SNL TV Funhouse: Maraka

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does mittens have free will?

yourscenesucks.com:

In Academia, rejection will find you:
So those of us who work in this industry understand all to well the vicissitudes of labor markets. We get used to seeing the PERFECT job advertised at the PERFECT institution, so we send off our vita and gather our rec letters and hope for months that the hiring committee will realize how perfectly we are made for that job.

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Siva was rejected and didn’t apply. Last year, i was rejected and had not applied but that was a . perhaps we have a new trend?

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