Read ePub ebooks online : Bookworm ePub reader A free platform for reading ePub books online. Bookworm is now closed. Bookworm, “an experimental platform for storing and reading ePub-format books online,” is closed as of March 31, 2012. Developed by Threepress in 2008, and brought into O'Reilly Labs in early 2009, Bookworm has been an interesting and useful experiment—we learned a lot, and heard from users that they appreciated the service.
Scrap tuition fees? Yes we have Liberal Democrats in government are about to scrap student tuition fees for 54.2% of students. This may come as a surprise, but that is because this side of the story isn't really being told. The Institute for Fiscal Studies has shown that for 54.2% of students in the future it does not matter how much their tuition actually costs. Francesca Woodman – review Francesca Woodman has been called a modernist, a surrealist and, even, a gothic artist. Her work carries echoes of all three traditions, but it evades categorisation. As a young woman, she photographed herself obsessively but often she appears as a blur of movement or a half-hidden figure, someone constantly trying to escape or hide. The end result is not self-portraiture, but a series of stills from a continuous performance in which she plays with the notion of the self, disguising, transforming and defacing her own body. At Victoria Miro, around 50 of Woodman's photographs – small, old-fashioned-looking prints that seem to belong to a much earlier time – pay testament to a short, but creatively productive life. It ended, while still in full flow, when she threw herself off a building in New York in January 1981, following a long bout of depression.
deathwatch OnLive, the cloud gaming system, has been subject to a lot of rumours lately. Most of them have been saying that the company is shutting down. Bad news if you work for them, clearly not much of an issue for the rest of the world who has largely ignored it. One in three South African men admit to rape, survey finds More than one in three South African men questioned in a survey admitted to rape, the latest evidence in the country of a violent culture of patriarchy. Researchers found that more than three in four men said they had perpetrated violence against women. Nearly nine in 10 men believe that a woman should obey her husband – and almost six in 10 women also agreed with the statement.
Hitchens defeats Blair in Canadian religion debate - Faith, Opinion The former prime minister said it was true that "people commit horrific acts of evil in the name of religion". But Mr Blair, who converted to Catholicism in 2007, said it was also true that religion inspires acts of extraordinary good. And he said it was important not to condemn all people of religious faith because of the "bigotry or prejudice shown by some". Cleanup In Aisle Three: The Evidence Photos DECEMBER 3--Now that the criminal case against the notorious Walmart toy aisle masturbator has come to and end, Florida investigators have released evidence photos taken at the scene of the revolting crime. A small selection of those North Port Police Department images can be seen here. The photos clear up a couple of points about William Tyler Black’s bizarre September 14 act of public indecency at a Walmart in Sarasota: • Crime scene technicians, armed with only a Q-Tip, are just as brave as any cop walking the beat. • Black was not carrying a copy of the 2010 Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition while pleasuring himself. In fact, he opted for SI’s $11.99 “Swimsuit Portfolio,” a bound volume with the subtitle “Paradise Found.”
Lib Dem council leader backs student protest fee call 7 December 2010Last updated at 18:43 By Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent There are protests planned ahead of this week's vote on raising fees The Liberal Democrat leader of Newcastle city council has told students who occupied the council chamber that he will lobby party leader Nick Clegg not to raise tuition fees.
Faisal Islam on Economics - Scrap the EMA and give the winter fuel allowance to someone on a cruise: welcome to the gerontocracy Today thousands of teenagers will be protesting about the scrapping of their means-tested £30 a week Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) for regularly-attending college students in low-earning households. It is poorly-targeted, “a deadweight cost” say the government, in that it is paid to many teenagers who would have attended anyway. It promises an as yet unspecified replacement. Is Yahoo Shutting Down Del.icio.us? [Update: Yes] For a couple of days now, we’ve been hearing rumors that the Yahoo layoffs included the entire Delicious team. Now Former Yahoo employee and Upcoming founder Andy Baio has tweeted out the above Yahoo! product team meeting slide that seems to show that Yahoo!
Does the Harlequin Romance Unicorn Vengeance boast the worst sentence ever published in English? Mayhap! - Kansas City News - Plog Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Unicorn Vengeance
Mark Steel: We owe it to bankers to feel their pain - Mark Steel, Commentators But at last they've learnt to stand up for themselves, and Bob Diamond has emerged as their Martin Luther King. Soon the whole banking community will declare: "Say it out loud, I'm 27 million quid in the black and I'm proud." Eventually some of them will feel able to come forward with stories of their plight, of how they were ashamed to tell even their parents they were a hedge fund manager, and at weekends they would lie to their friends by saying they were putting up shelves when in fact they were flying to the Indian Ocean to buy one of the Maldive Islands. Already Bankers' Rights activist Lord Jones of HSBC has protested that bankers who received smaller bonuses last year received "not one jot of praise".
Keep the BFI Library together and accessible Petition Petition published by Richard Collins on Jan 13, 2011Closed on Feb 13, 2011 Target: British Film Institute Result: Dear signatories, Palestine Papers: Guardian’s own documents demonstrate veracity of Israeli version of 2008 offer (A contiguous Palestinian state with captial in Jerusalem) Standing in stark contrast to the Guardian’s Palestine Papers narrative – of Israeli intransigence and Palestinian weakness and humiliation – their own documents corroborate the widely reported Israeli offer, during the 2008 negotiations, which Mahmoud Abbas rejected: a contiguous Palestinian state representing roughly 94% of the West Bank with land swaps (part of Israel which would become part of the new Palestinian state) making up for the remaining 6%. The offer also included a Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem. Here’s the map on the Guardian’s site: Click to Enlarge