Miscellanea

TV series of KSR's Red Mars being developed

Ignobel Awards (Archaeology: Astolfo Mello Araujo at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil for measuring how the contents of an archaeological dig can be disrupted by the actions of an armadillo.

Adeona: free multi-platform software for tracking and recovering stolen laptops

Summer 1946

In summer 1946 somebody bought a copy of Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey -- the first Pan paperback, incidentally -- and got halfway through, approximately to Paris.
I've just found their bookmark: pictures beneath the cut.
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