Down The Rabbit Hole...
Bob says Fox News can be amusing so this morning when Goddard's Political Newswire pointed to a Fox story I followed up on the links and kept falling.
News HoundsWikepedia's article on The Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Inc., or (ISI) where the study was shaped.
ISI was founded in 1953 and also publishes two list, the five best books and the five worst books of the 20th century. Its kind of interesting that four out of five books in each list were published before 1953 and apparently from ISI's point of view nothing much happened in the 20th century after 1964.
Shifting topic...
Yesterday I bought a nook at Barnes & Noble. Its a pleasing little device -- Easy to read and hold. Bauer's The Well Educated Mind was the first book I bought sitting in my living room. Amazon's system knows I bought their competitor's eReader since I wanted a book cover with an easel back. Latter this morning I will go up to Barnes & Noble, order a Cafe Americano, sit in their corner atrium and find out how the in store nook experience feels.
'...In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down a very deep well.
Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she passed; it was labelled `ORANGE MARMALADE', but to her great disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as she fell past it.
`Well!' thought Alice to herself, `after such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs! How brave they'll all think me at home! Why, I wouldn't say anything about it, even if I fell off the top of the house!' (Which was very likely true.)
Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end! `I wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time?' she said aloud. `I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth. Let me see: that would be four thousand miles down, I think--' (for, you see, Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her lessons in the schoolroom, and though this was not a very good opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over) `--yes, that's about the right distance--but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I've got to?' (Alice had no idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but thought they were nice grand words to say.)...'
