good luck and take care

Liverpool Confidential: Jobs shock at Post and Echo -- Nearly a quarter of journalists to go, and Saturday Daily Post to vanish in latest Old Hall Street misery
I know a couple of you might be mixed up in this and my ranting about it won't help. So all I'll say is good luck and take care.

Jemima Kiss: The UK's hidden newspaper archives
Which is a good reminder that you can digitise material all you want but it's still no substitute for the original or for paper.

Twenty things librarians want patrons to know!
I'm not sure about (2) though. I'm not sure a responsible librarian would supply an 18 certificate film to a minor.

McDonald's did away with its spoon-shaped coffee stirrers because people were using them as cocaine spoons.
Another snopes expose. Note they didn't get rid of them because kids like me used to chew the end off.

the fine line between envy and bitterness
Obama's West Wing-style appointees continue. Here's the Sam Seaborn.

Santa Monica Public Library Memorial
Depression-era fresco that looks like a precursor to Yellow Submarine (the film).

A Note From Producer Tom Werman.
Popdose offers write of reply to a producer who disliked their review of Motley Crew's Girls, Girls, Girls or more specifically his part in it: "If you’re logging on to this site to read blogs about music that are allegedly written by people who are qualified to do so, then demand a modicum of accuracy. Check some facts now and then. Somehow, in some way, I must have slighted or offended Mr. Bolin in the past. I can see no other reason for this left-field assault on my professional and personal integrity."

Unhappy Farewell to Stalag 666
Another example of same but much worse. Stalag 666 is a strip in 2000 AD comic that has attracted a fair amount of unpleasant criticism. Rather than simply rolling over, writer Tony Lee describes some of the worst of it at a public forum, including the unpleasant human deposit he found in his mail. Ugh.

Element Four
... produced water from the air. Hello, future, it's good to see you. It's just a pity Tomorrow's World isn't still on so we can see Maggie Philbin trying to demonstrate it in a studio.