Your favorite childhood book takes a turn for the sinister when eccentric The Who drummer Keith Moon shows up. When it comes to comforting memories, we'll stick with Mary Poppins, the lady who carries wall-length mirrors in her purse and flies with a talking umbrella, thank you very much.

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1. via Neatorama

This is a much cooler way of keeping a library than my current system of stacking books on the floor around my bed. Recommended for anyone who has multiple floors in their home (i.e., no one I know). Levitate , via Fubiz .

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1. Book Staircase
2. Levitate Architecture and Design Studio
3. Staircase Drawers

Poor dude's just sitting on the porch, reading his book, when his hilarious girlfriend slaps him with her bloody tampon. Ha-ha! But she was just joking! Honey? Well, suffice to say honey's not laughing.

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1. Tampon Prank Gone Wrong!

TECH BUZZ: The first of what can only be many Twitter books is upon us. James Bridle self-published two years' worth of his Tweets in a lovely, antique-fail-whale adorned hardcover book. I guess this is 2009's answer to publishing an author's journals and old letters. We can at least say it is; it sounds classier.

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1. My Life In Tweets, A Book of Twitter Posts by James Bridle
2. My Life in Tweets: Volume I
3. Make your own!
4. Lots of pictures of the pretty book
5. Nick Douglas is also working on a Twitter book. Will it be as pretty?

CULTURE BUZZ: Well, they did it. Coming soon to a Borders near you… This Is Why You're Fat the book. The creators of the Tumblr blog finally got their six-figure book deal, in another blog-to-riches success story.

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1. This Is Why You’re Fat Gets Book Deal
2. This Is Why You’re Fat: The Book
3. This Is Why You’re Fat: The Book
4. thisiswhyyourefat.com

CULTURE BUZZ: These are the ten books that people are most likely to lie about having read, according to a survey by a pro-reading advocacy group in the UK. I have read 1, 3, and 5 on this list, and I lie about having read 10, because we had it in our bathroom for, like, a year, which is almost like my having read it.

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1. Via Kottke: Lying About Books
2. Guilty Secrets Survey results revealed!

CELEBRITY BUZZ: The actor, last seen in Milk , will pen a book of short stories for an imprint of Simon & Schuster. Currently enrolled at both NYU and Columbia, this comes as good news for Franco, who will now be considered The Hottest Writer Ever (besides Erma Bombeck , of course - JK! MISS YOU ERMS!)

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1. It Runs in the Family - Franco’s Mom is Also a Besteselling Children’s Book Author
2. An Exclusive Look at the Table of Contents
3. But, Really, Wouldn’t You Rather Read the Works of Miley Cyrus?
4. Remember When Jewel Published Poetry?

CULTURE BUZZ: A waitress's tell-all book on the dirty dining secrets of the stars. We're talking insider code-names like Twat Waffle (apparently Michael Stipe) who wears “matching fedoras and Ray-Bans” with his boy crew, leaves no tip and just wants some f'n blueberry waffles. It all sounds delicious and should be a best seller in no time.

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1. Confirmed: Waitress Tell-all Depicts Otto, Not Babbo. Plus, a Sneak Peek!
2. Everybody Hurts
3. ROCKER STIPE: DINER FROM HELL
4. Buy It on Amazon
5. Buy It On Amazon
6. Buy It On Barnes & Noble

CULTURE BUZZ: So there's this company that lets you enter you and your significant other's names online, and it then prints out a full erotic book about the two of you! For instance, my free excerpt about the first couple read, “Michelle decided that she did have time for some more playtime with Barack after all.” Go have a ball.

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1. U Star Novels
2. Yes [your name here] said yes I will Yes.
3. Get Your Own Free Excerpt

Graduate student Laura Cahill, uses books from secondhand stores, found that old books are very difficult to recycle because of the glue used in the binding process, so she uses the books to create waterproof vases

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TECH BUZZ: The next generation Kindle has officially been released! Amazon's confirmed the price ($359) and February 24th ship date. In the meantime, there are lots of pretty pictures and videos for you to geek out to.

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1. Pre-order now!
2. Liveblogging the Kindle 2 release
3. Kindle 2 video
4. Purported Kindle 2 - Take It With a Grain of Salt
5. Exclusive: Amazon Kindle 2 Images and Price

SCIENCE BUZZ: A new children's book asks the questions all kids want to know. The book's plot summary reads, “Two yetis trek through the Arctic in an attempt to answer the burning question, 'Do Narwhals Have Blowholes?' Will they find the answer or will they be eaten by polar bears?” …Introducing my imaginary nephew for whom I need to buy this book.

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1. Do Narwhals Have Blowholes? (Do Yetis Exist?)
2. Narwhals - Featured on Buzzfeed
3. A Live Reading of the Book

Using old books, an artist armed with only a razor blade created pop-up paper models, and set them in sexy poses, like this one! You can check out all 44 photos below, or visit his show at at the Foley Gallery in NYC.

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1. Models Made Out of Books
2. Look At All The Pretty Pictures
3. Dioramas Out of Old Paperback Covers
4. Models Made Out of Books

A gallery of paintings that use books as a canvas. Now you can feel cultured without having to worry about being made to read anything.

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1. Via Make:
2. More Book Art

Link: http://classicsapp.com/

A soon-to-be-released app for the iPhone handsomely packages classic books for touch screen reading. If I could figure out how to update my hacked iPhone, I would totally get this.

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One thing blogs can’t compete with: wooden bookmarks. As much as we love Instapaper , we have to admit that sometimes the unmistakable smell of aged bound paper is where it’s at.

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1. via FFFFOUND!
2. Instapaper - Featured on BuzzFeed

CULTURE BUZZ: The Ask A Ninja creators released The Ninja Handbook, “the first-ever secret ninja training guide specifically designed for the non-ninja”. Since last week had International Talk Like A Pirate Day , let’s give the Ninjas some love today. Besides, could being in the International Order of Ninjas really be a bad thing?

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1. Ask a Ninja Presents The Ninja Handbook: This Book Looks Forward to Killing You Soon
2. Ask A Ninja Slashdot Review
3. Ask a Ninja’s Handbook Deals Deadly Advice
4. Ask a Ninja Presents The Ninja Handbook
5. Ninjas Arrested
6. Ask A Ninja
7. Audio Version Coming Soon

CULTURE BUZZ: Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games takes place in a futuristic dystopian society where teens fight to the death in front of live TV audiences. Much like The Running Man, Survivor, and Battle Royale, The Hunger Games shines another spotlight on humanity’s obsession with devouring one another alive while the television cameras roll.

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1. Dying is part of the script
2. The Hunger Games Book Giveaway
3. The Hunger Games on BookVideos
4. Another Sci Fi Dystopia Has Hit the Shelves, and It’s a Good One.
5. Stephanie Meyer Recommends
6. The Hunger Games on Amazon
7. Goodreads Reviews
8. The Running Man

CULTURE BUZZ: “There are 8,000 nerve endings in the clitoris and this son of a bitch couldn’t find one of them.” Did your ears perk up? The publicists behind J.J. Salem’s Tan Lines sure hope so. They even put together a video of a bunch of randoms reading the line out loud, because nothing is funnier than realizing that most people are barely literate.

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1. Sexy Summer Beach Reads
2. Books: All Book Has Going For It Is “Clitoris”
3. There Are 8,000 Nerve Endings in the Clitoris
4. Buy Tan Lines by J.J. Salem
5. Tan Lines by J.J. Salem

CULTURE BUZZ: German writer/TV personality’s first book — an intimate look at women’s hygiene and sexuality — is causing a stir. Roche’s Feuchtgebiete (wetlands) is a best seller and source of controversy in Germany, starting a national conversation about the way women are viewed and view themselves. Roche is already a star there for her nightly talkshow, in which sex was always a big topic.

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1. “The themes that appear in my book – the body, illness, hospitals, masturbation – are themes that I have always been fascinated by.”
2. Shaving, Avocado Sex Toys, Fluids, and More
3. Of Course, British Publishers Are Scrambling to Sign Her
4. Worldwide Bestseller When It First Came Out