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Culture Buzz Were you the kid reading Catcher In The Rye, did you go through a really bitter Lord Of The Flies phase, how many times were you forced to read The Great Gatsby? We want to know what your favorite book was and why!
As if books weren’t cool enough by themselves, they go and put them in these awesome buildings.
This day an age of technology we can’t forget the analog internet cafes with dark wood, detailed workmanship, leaded glass windows and tier after towering tier of books – classic historic libraries are a bibliophile’s dream.
Culture Buzz Celebrate Banned Books Week better by letting Twain, Bradbury, Shaw, and other famous writers remind you how censorship is not awesome.
I may have popped a literary boner for this concept. Olivier Charles created this digital rendering for an International Competition of Architecture for the Stockholm Public Library. (via cgsociety.org)
BRB, hugging my bookcase forever. Books are the most wonderful things in the universe.
Culture Buzz As the availability of urban apartment space continues to decline, a whole new style of library has begun popping up around the country. They’re tool libraries, and for just a few dollars a month members get access to a garage full of tools and community resources to help perform simple home maintenance and repair. In Philly, annual membership is only $20 a year and gets you access to cool tools like squirrel traps, lawn mowers, and chainsaws.
The Library of Congress produces a braille version of the girlie magazine. I guess the blind are the only people who actually do read Playboy for the articles.
Style Buzz A volunteer run organization in Australia loans out clothing to unemployed people for crucial job interviews. There’s not much buzz on these yet, but we’d love to see someone take the idea and run with it. It almost seems like something we can’t believe doesn’t exist in America yet.
Bunny bathtime is the new hot thing. All the bunnies are doing it…
After receiving some breaking “information,” very funny twitter-man…
