Duuuude. Old books online!

http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/title.html

"We have hundreds of classic books you can read right now, all absolutely free! It is an ideal way to expand your horizons, catch up on your reading list, or read books that it seems like everyone else has already read. Fix yourself a drink, get comfortable and Start Reading!"

So. Not. Kidding. They've got bunches of Holmesiana. They've got The Call of the Wild. They've got Ayn Rand (only Anthem), Upton Sinclair, Daniel Defoe, L. Frank Baum (more Oz than you can shake a stick at!), H.G. Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. Rider Haggard, Dickens, Twain, Frances Hodgson Burnett, you name it. And it isn't just books, either, there's short stories and political documents (the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, Presidential inaugural speeches), and, and...

Dude. If you have a cousin or a sister or a brother or a kid or something and they have to read Classic American or English Literature for a book report, for the love of Fnord, point them at this web site! Let them pick a book and start reading - it's not a downloadable format, it's just web pages with 'click here for next page of book'. Low bandwidth. No problem. Very easy to get an idea of the book before you plunk down whatever the stores are charging, and you can always buy the paper version afterwards if you like. And hey - no overdue fines at the library!

You so owe it to the little gnome in your soul who reads things way too old to be commonplace any more. Go on, check 'em out.

Now here is a man who earned some good Karma:

BBC News Online
'Kiss of life' pioneer dies

The doctor credited with inventing the mouth-to-mouth resuscitation technique known as the "kiss-of-life", has died in the United States aged 79.

The American Heart Association (AHA) confirmed Dr. Peter Safar had died on Sunday, but did not give a cause of death.

The doctor - whose pioneering efforts have saved countless lives - was born in Austria in the 1920s and survived a Nazi labour camp before emigrating to the US after the war.

There are ancient references to the apparent use of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation in the Bible, but the technique fell out of practice until rediscovered by Dr. Safar in the 1950s.

Also credited with playing a key role was his colleague, Dr. James Elam. . .

Godspeed, Dr. Safar.

Just a bit of gamefoo - character dynamics really.

( This stuff is probably of no interest to anyone except those who have been following the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen game stuff from Cadhla's game, as it's about two of the characters and isn't even fic. )

*sigh*

Angry god wrath again outside. Although the worst of it's died down now. So much for the East Orange portion of National Night Out, it's officially been rained out. Don't get me wrong - I like rain, I like thunderstorms, I like it when the sky gets dark with weather. It's just a pity that the event got rained out.

Wonder if TORG ever used 'Godwrath' as the name for one of their Cyberpapacy weapons. Makes a nice name for a plague, if you ask me.