Two links regarding #amazonfail

Nancy Johnston, who blogs for my local paper, tells us what she learned from AmazonFail.
Neil Gaiman recommended this analysis via Twitter.

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Yes, Virginia, there is a Professor Snape

Do you read Head Butler? I get his recommendations by email.  This morning I read yesterday’s offering and thought, “That’s Severus Snape all over”.  Read his review of Teacher of the Year by Lawrence Meyers–pay special attention to the excerpt from the book–and tell me that’s not a real-life Snape in the classroom.

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Links to delight and enlighten you

From author Brendan Myers, “How to fight bad books“, specifically bad books about the ancient Celts, their druids, and their religions.
From Havi Brooks, habits educator (and her partner Selma the duck), a wonderful series of blog posts on blogging.  (I’ve linked to the most recent post as of today, which contains links to the earlier [...]

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What she said

“On the edge….”

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Here a link, there a link, everything’s a linky-link

If you don’t usually read Wil Wheaton, don’t miss this entry at his blog. I shouted “Die, Wesley, die!” with the rest of the fandom when I was a know-it-all twenty-something, but the reinvented Wil Wheaton, husband and father, writer and occasional actor, is a pretty cool dude.
Snopes.com confirms that the world’s most scathing obituary [...]

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