Happy Holidays, Holiday Hours and a Blog Holiday

Our hours for the holidays are:
December 16: Closed
December 17-21: 8-4pm
December 24 through January 1: Closed
January 2-4: 8-4pm
January 5-6: Closed
January 7-11: 8-4pm
January 12: Closed
January 13: Resume regular hours
We will take a “blog holiday” from posting until sometime early January 2008…check back here for items already posted, but there will be no new content.

The Library Problem…don’t try this at home-

In March of 2006 my wife Mary and I owned about 3,500 books. We both have eclectic interests, voracious appetites for knowledge, and a great love of used bookstores. The problem was that we had no idea what books we had or where any of them were. We lost books all the time, cursed late [...]

The Story of Stuff

Online movie reveals what happens when we consume too much stuff.
www.storyofstuff.com

How Natural-gas Vehicles Work

from HowStuffWorks: Daily Stuff Feed
As gasoline prices soar and concern over harmful emissions mounts, cars that run on alternate fuel sources are becoming increasingly important.

Nancy Weis’s Website of the Week: Harbin Snow and Ice Festival

This week: Taking Advantage of the Cold
Harbin Snow and Ice Festival
http://rtoddking.com/chinawin2003_hb_if.htm
Photographer R. Todd King visited Harbin, China in the winter of 2003, and has published his photographs of their amazing ice festival. There is a whole city made of ice and lit by brilliantly colored lights, with multi-story buildings, bridges, sculptures, ice [...]