quote [ Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it highlights the value of free and open access to information. Banned Books Week brings together the entire book community –- librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types –- in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular. ]

quote [ Just a public service announcement ]

quote [ Set in the aftermath of a world-wide nuclear war, Fallout will challenge you to survive in an unknown and dangerous world. ]

quote [ The film, as far as I can tell, was made alongside this 2004 Guardian article by Ronson which I remember reading on my lunch break back when I worked in Argos. It's a fascinating exploration of Kubrick's giant (bloody GIANT) personal archive that shines a little light on his creative process. ]

quote [ A. Douglas Stone, the Carl A. Morse Professor of Applied Physics and chair of applied physics at Yale, has developed the world's first "anti-laser." An anti-laser (or, in technical terms, "coherent perfect absorber") works in the reverse of a conventional laser. Instead of emitting a beam of light, it absorbs it. ]

quote [ CBS News Chief Foreign Correspondent separated from her crew and brutally assaulted on day Mubarak stepped down. ]

quote [ One of the best-known dinosaur species may not have really been a dinosaur species at all ]

quote [ Full transcript as prepared for delivery of President Barack Obama's inaugural remarks on Jan. 20, 2009, at the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. ]

quote [ Last week, Comcast -- the second-largest Internet service provider in the country -- announced that starting Oct. 1 it would officially set a threshold for monthly Internet usage. ]

quote [ Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey and a man considered one of the world's top science fiction writers, has died. ]