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July 6, 2009

This DIY secret passage way is 10 kinds of necessary. All you need in an IKEA Billy bookcase, fibreboard, hinges and some elbow grease.
Amazon is applying for a patent to include in-book advertising for the Kindle. Might knock a couple bucks off the price but advertising? In books? Really?
Richard Florida will be happy that apparently 34% of Torontonians and 28% of Water..looians (?) belong to the so-called ‘creative class’.
Toronto Star’s picks for fall 2009. Yes please to the bio about Raymond Carver.
The Frankfurt Book Fair breaks down the affect of social media on how the publishing industry communicates. I have a more important question for you: who are these 96% of Canadians who don’t use Twitter?
Amazon is being dinged for not paying approximately 147 million USD in back taxes for unreported income earned in Japan.
Author John Keel has died. Keel is best known for his 1976 novel The Mothman Prophecies.

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Pete says:
July 6th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
I’ve always loved the idea of a secret passage in my home, but in the example in the photograph, who would bother with the secret room when all the booze is apparently kept in the outer room?
B.Kienapple says:
July 6th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
The booze is probably just the precursor to the even better stuff that happens in the ’secret’ room.
Dave says:
July 6th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Didn’t Al Capone try this once, only to be found out by Heraldo Rivera?

July 6, 2009