Next Brightlight Books overstock sale, Jan. 14th

Scott Huber — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:30:13 +0000

Brightlight Books’ overstock sale will be every Saturday from 10 am – 6 pm.

That’s over 20,000 items all for $3.00 and under. Many items are only $1.00.

Books

DVDs

Kids books

CDs

Audio Books

We lack attention to detail…or something like that

Scott Huber — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:06:22 +0000

Brightlight Books has sold many thousands of books through the internet over the years and from time to time one of our online “customers” isn’t completely satisfied. Usually we are able to work it out, but sometimes no matter what we do a customer just isn’t happy.

Here is the most recent rating/comment an online customer gave us (and I quote exactly as he wrote the comment):

The books was advertised as being a signed edition…it was not. While it may not have been the intention to give fase information….it show a lat of attendion to detail…I did not feel that their response showed that they really cared about their mistake…I would not buy from them again!!!!!

You’ll perhaps pardon me if I don’t consider him an expert in uncovering a lack of attention to detail.

NYT 10 Best books of 2011

Scott Huber — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:49:25 +0000

The New York Times here with their list of the 10 best books of 2011.

5 Novels:

The Art of Fielding

11/22/63

Swamplandia

Ten Thousand Saints

The Tiger’s Wife

5 Non-Fiction

Arguably

The Boy in the Moon

Malcolm X

Thinking Fast and Slow

A World on Fire

Papa Manning weighs in on Colts QB situation

Scott Huber — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:49:31 +0000

ESPN has a report that Archie Manning doesn’t think it would work to have Peyton Manning and Andrew Luck on the same team.

My guess is unless he plays this year, I think Peyton has played his last game as a Colt.

UPDATE: Now Archie Manning is saying maybe Peyton and Luck can play together. Interesting….

Methinks he is like Dawkins

Scott Huber — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:53:32 +0000

With a clever title, Casey Luskin here with an interesting critical review of at least one part of Michael Yarus’s Life From an RNA World.

Weird: mysterious debris crashes through warehouse roof

Scott Huber — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:39:59 +0000

CBS Boston has the story.

100 Best British Films

Scott Huber — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:30:22 +0000

I love these kinds of lists. I just looked through it quickly, but it seems like a pretty good list.

Richard Epstein interview

Scott Huber — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:26:24 +0000

John J. Miller interviews Richard Epstein about his new book, Design for Liberty.

Key phrase: political discretion

Kindle Fire in an age of distraction

Scott Huber — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:20:37 +0000

Andrew O’Shaughnessy with a thoughtful blog post here about the trends in reading and how the new technological devices (like the Kindle Fire) make it more difficult for us to read well.

I feel this from personal experience now that I’ve had my Fire for a couple of weeks. What happens is I will be reading along and enjoying the ebook, but I am easily distracted from sustained reading since I can quickly check the score or my email or see what today’s movie deal is, etc.

Round up of Stephen Meyer’s trip to UK

Scott Huber — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:08:15 +0000

Interesting (if typical) summary of the recent trip and lecture by Stephen Meyer to the UK where he delivered a lecture.