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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: This Star Wars Wedding Cake Is Most Impressive

by Rebecca Pahle | 4:57 pm, February 13th, 2013

Each tier of depicts a different scene: The bottom is Luke on Tatooine in a A New Hope (the groom’s been to that filming location), the middle is Leia meeting Wicket in Return of the Jedi (the bride’s been to that filming location), and the top is the wedding of Anakin and Padme in Attack of the Clones (they want to visit that filming location together). Visit That’s Nerdalicious for detail shots.

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The Future Is Now!

First Bookless Public Library Features E-readers You Can Borrow

by Jill Pantozzi | 4:00 pm, January 19th, 2013

Not quite sure e-readers are for you? They are a significant expense after all, and not everyone is ready to leave those delicious smelling pages behind. But you’re in luck if you live near Bexar County in Texas. They’re about to open the nation’s first bookless public library system.

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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: A Chair Covered in Eyeballs

by Susana Polo | 5:34 pm, September 2nd, 2012

Home decor that makes you feel safe from the Weeping Angels. I’m for it. (Neatorama)

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Woman Arrested for Failing to Return Twilight to the Library

by Susana Polo | 4:01 pm, June 30th, 2012

I know what you’re likely thinking: “Ha ha, some Twihard shoulda paid her library fees.” I know, because that’s what I was thinking too, until I actually got to the details of this story. Like that the woman in this case was a mother of five who spent the night in jail with no one to care for her pre-teen children, because of thirty-six dollars of library fees and a court summons that was never actually delivered to her.

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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: Texts From Hillary

by Jamie Frevele | 4:58 pm, April 5th, 2012

So, we found Texts From Hillary today, and now you know about it, too. You’re welcome.

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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: Droid Love

by Jamie Frevele | 5:30 pm, March 31st, 2012

BAWWWWWWW. Finally! Available on RedBubble. (via So Geek Chic)

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And Now For Something Completely Different

Canadian Library Is Loaning Out Humans As Reference Material

by Jamie Frevele | 3:28 pm, August 19th, 2011

Taking a cue from 1994 children’s live-action/animated movies (or just The Pagemaster), a library in Surrey, British Columbia plans to lend out humans boasting deep knowledge of various subjects, giving library-goers the opportunity to hear what they would have read in a book from an actual person. The goal, according to a library official, is not only to provide a firsthand account of an experience, but also to “break down stereotypes and start discussions.” It’s a humanitarian human-lending operation.

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I See What They Did There

School Bans Slaughterhouse-Five, Vonnegut Memorial Library Offers Students Free Copies

by Alanna Bennett | 2:07 pm, August 9th, 2011

Ooh, fun, book-banning! Once again, Kurt Vonnegut’s science fiction masterpiece Slaughterhouse-Five has been banned from Republic High School in Missouri. This is far from the first time the book has been banned, or burned; schools in the U.S. have frequently struck the book from the curriculum, and removed it from the libraries, and it solidly holds its place on the American Library Association’s list of “100 Most Challenged Books of 1990-1999.” When the Vonnegut memorial library heard about this particular one, however, they reached out to the students who would be deprived of reading the book, and are providing those students with free copies of the novel.

Mark this under “Rebellion that rocks.”

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There Is a Real Library For Magic In Manhattan [Video]

by Jamie Frevele | 12:55 pm, June 5th, 2011

One thing is for certain: If Hermione Granger was real and living in New York City, she’d be at this library reading every single book in it (again). The Conjuring Arts Resource Center in midtown Manhattan holds 11,000 books about the history of magic “and its allied arts” (which includes psychic phenomena, hypnosis, and slight-of-hand techniques) and functions primarily as a research library. Don’t you love it when things like Hogwarts and Ray’s Occult Books join imaginary forces to form something real?

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We Have Done the Impossible and That Makes Us Mighty

The Library of the Future Where Robots Get Your Books

by Jamie Frevele | 11:03 am, May 11th, 2011

Flying against the idea that physical libraries with physical books are going the way of the dodo (and Blockbuster Video), the University of Chicago will be opening the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library next week, which is designed to incorporate computer-based research with actual books. Although, none of those books appear in the actual space of the library upon entering — they are stored in an underground storage area where they are retrieved by robots.

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