News for a Saturday. You could read it Monday, But Nobody'll Care.

Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey have seemingly removed all books on evolution and other subjects from their for sale list.  The group denies censorship claims, instead claiming copyright and the fact that the books all needed to be translated to "Gobblese," the official language of Turkey. *

A bunch of kids at the Charlotte Central School made some really poor sculptures of book related shit.  I am no art critic, but these kids better not throw away those Burger King applications just yet. **

Penguin books is producing an app of Anne Frank's diary.  I wonder if the digital book will have any hidden Easter eggs? ***

Michael Panzer has been selected to be the 10th Editor-In-Chief of the DDCS!  Panzer's first notion will be to bring back section 104, formally Philosophical Essays, as a new section: "104 - Bullshit Said In Barbershops."****

A new exhibit by the National Archives of Australia shows all the books Australia has banned over the years.  It also starts out with a comparison to the Nazis.  I am not joking. *****

*This sentence is to apologize for that "Turkey" joke.  I do not know what the hell I was thinking.

**Wow, I just read over this and that thing about the kids and the sculpture was pretty harsh.  Sorry about that, too.  Man, this no smoking thing has made me pretty mean.  

***I don't know what the hell that Anne Frank thing was about.  I admit I might be going to hell for that one.

****I'm standing by the Panzer joke.

***** Feeling better after that article compared Australia to Nazi Germany.

Penguin and Random House Merge To Create Penguin Random House.

Two publishing giants, Random House and Penguin, have announced plans to merge and focus their efforts on being "more adventurous" with ebooks.

Tale as old as time, Random House.  The little woman wants you to try new things, experiment more.  Then you wake up in Vegas forming synergy bonds with six dollar crack whores, there's a penguin in the bedroom that smells like your wife who you may or may not have sold into white slavery, and you need to start wondering how deep you have to dig so the coyotes won't find the body.  Here's all you need to know: Keep your head up, don't look it in the eyes and above all else wear a condom.  You do not know where that penguin has been.

Penguin and Random House merge, promise a brave new e-book future - Engadget:

The Guardian

Penguin and Random House merge, promise a brave new e-book future Engadget While the two are engaged in the usual corporatespeak of creating "synergies" (read: resource cuts), we're more interested in talk of the union being a springboard for digital efforts: Penguin Random House wants to be "more adventurous" with e-book ... Penguin Random House aims to attack digital, emerging ebooks marketspaidContent.org Penguin, Random House Merger Is OfficialGood E-Reader (blog) Penguin and Random House to merge and compete against Amazon and AppleITProPortal Expatica Germany -Economic Times all 481 news articles »

GWB Pres Liberry: Knowledge Just Rolled in its Grave

Lady Hit by Shovel In Stomach, Pile of Dirt Holding a Shovel, Sell-out, and Dick Cheney (cause that's enough of an insult, plus I could not think of a good grave digging joke)

Yep, he's got a library.  Just cause some morons could not figure out how to vote properly.  Some small made-up ideas about what this library is gonna be like:

1)  Total Children's section of his favorite coloring books.  Collection of already colored pages to be archived, as well as a special section where he stayed "in the lines."
2)  Complete vacation guide section to Texas.
3)  Basement to have insulated levee system to prevent flooding.
4)  Presidential Speak-and-Spell
5)  Complete presidential papers.  As well as bongs, pipes, flasks, and commemorative spring break cups.

Let me know if you hear of some made-up exhibits in the library.

Here's the real NY Times story.