UPDATE : Here's a video of them singing the song:The highly anticipated new album from My Morning Jacket, Evil Urges, hit the stores this week and on it is a sweet little ballad of desire called "Librarian."Here is a sample of the lyrics:walk across the courtyardtowards the libraryI can hear the insects buzz andthe leaves 'neath my feetramble up the stairwell, into the hallof bookssince we got the interweb thesehardly get usedlooking for a lesson in theperiodicalsthere I spy you listening to the AMradio...it's not like you're not trying, with apencil in your hairto defy the beauty the good lordput...
Library a-Go-Go Gets Going
The first public library book dispensing machine in the United States has arrived. Beginning today commuters with a Contra Costa County library card will be able to check out items from a book lending machine at the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Pittsburg/Bay Point station. The machines are built by the Swedish company Distec and cost about $100,000 each. How it works:"A touch screen, similar to an ATM screen, is used to select from up to approximately 500 items that are delivered through an opening in the front of the unit. Materials are returned in a similar way. A robotic...
The First Library on Mars
The Phoenix has landed on Mars! That DVD you see attached to the Phoenix lander was created by the Planetary Society and is titled "Visions of Mars." It contains "works by The Planetary Society's co-founder Carl Sagan, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Kim Stanley Robinson, Arthur C. Clarke, Percival Lowell, and many more." The disc includes classic science fiction texts, artwork, radio broadcasts and the names of 250,000 earthlings."Mars has long fired the imaginations of people around the world, and that fascination has been captured in countless stories and artistic visions of the Red Planet. The Planetary Society brought together the...
The Cabinet National Library
In 2004 on a desolate desert tract on the outskirts of Deming, New Mexico Matthew Passmore, and other members of the San Francisco arts collective Rebar, built a library."The Cabinet National Library takes the form of a circle with a radius of twelve feet—viewed from the south, the cabinet is situated at the top, or "12 o'clock" position on the circle. At each of the positions representing three, six and nine o'clock, we have set a solar-powered lantern into the earth to help guide you around the library grounds should you find yourself there after sundown. Each lantern is also...
Gutenberg, Gutenberg, Gutenberg
Amazingly, the Morgan Library owns 3 copies of the Gutenberg Bible, two on paper and one on vellum, and they all are unique in some respect. Beginning tomorrow all 3 will be displayed together for the first time in 10 years.The Gutenberg bible was the first substantial book printed in the Western world using movable type. It is believed that Gutenberg and his successors printed between 120 and 135 copies of the Bible on paper and between 40 and 45 copies on vellum. Only 50 survive and some are pretty beat up.The exhibit runs through September 28th.Morgan Library Press Release...