Archive for September 20th, 2005

Rare Book School Founder and Book Preservationist Garners MacArthur “Genius” Grant

Tuesday, September 20th, 2005

Among the twenty-five MacArthur Fellows the MacArthur Foundation named on Tuesday (Sept. 20) is Terry Belanger, University Professor and Honorary Curator of Special Collections at the University of Virginia and founder of the Rare Book School, which I learned about through the playful antiquarian. From the backgrounder linked above: "Terry Belanger is a historian, collector, [...]

The Importance of People Knowing How to Use Tools

Tuesday, September 20th, 2005

is outlined in this humorous cartoon. (Thanks, SR!)

I know I’ve been around Wikimedians too long.

Tuesday, September 20th, 2005

I was writing something about large aquatic mammals and had to look up the spelling in the dictionary because ‘whales’ with an ‘h’ just looks so funny now.