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Halloween Jokes, Twitter & Google

By Prefect ⋅ October 31, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

Both Twitter and Google have pulled some decent jokes this Halloween. Starting with Google, they have as usual implemented a holiday logo, this year the logo’s candy unwraps each time you click on it. More subtly though, the robots.txt file on Google contains some special instructions for User-agent: Kids.

Banned Books Week Begins

By Prefect ⋅ September 28, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Every year since 1982, the last week of September has kicked off Banned Books Week for libraries and bookstores around the nation, celebrating the freedom to read. Participating libraries and bookstores put up displays containing banned books. The week was so designated in 1982 to draw attention to the spike in challenges to books being in libraries, schools, and bookstores.

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