Ancient explorers set sail expecting to encounter dragons on the world's unknown oceans. NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft are searching for dragons of a different sort as they enter the boundary of our solar system – cosmic "dragons" that breathe a strange fire of high-speed atomic fragments called cosmic rays. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

’In 1973 I set out to do drawings of women’s genitals for use in sex education groups. I wanted the drawings to be lovely and informative, to give pleasure and affirmation. I organized the drawings into a coloring book because a major way we learn to understand the world, as children, is by coloring. As adults many of us still need to learn about our external sexual anatomy.’ -Te... read full post picked by gnikgnok 3 years ago

Rove in new book: "Bush is needy"

Obviously not a groundbreaking book, so Bush is a needy cry baby, BIG SURPRISE! picked by buddha 2 years ago

This fake book is a way of hiding your PSP and making people think you are reading a book. This is the perfect disguise. :) picked by pjanaway 2 years ago

I don't know if anyone on Plime likes her (I don't, particularly... ), but my mom asked me to download the book so she could read it.
Suze Orman's book, "Women & Money", is being offered for free download from Oprah's site until 8pm tomorrow. Link is to the PDF file for the English version, but you can also find the Spanish version through Oprah.com. picked by Marli 2 years ago

An Arizona man is celebrating a special day to promote comic books as engaging educational tools. Free Comic Book Day is set to take place the first Saturday in May. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

Find 'wild' books in your area or release a book into the wild for someone else to find. picked by Boomshank 3 years ago

The world's oldest ocean-going passenger vessel still in service has been converted into a floating Japanese bookstore. picked by VooDooPeacock 3 years ago

6 guys attempt to beat the last level of guitar hero 3 on expert. Dragon Force - Through fire and flame. Now I've never played this, but it looks impossible! picked by thenegativeone 2 years ago

An Iowa woman has been arrested because she failed to return a library book. She is accused of keeping "The Freedom Writers Diary." picked by Bornbad 10 months ago

At a time when publishers are scrambling to keep customers willing to pay $26 for a hardcover book instead of $9.99 for an electronic version, the publisher of Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s forthcoming memoir is going in the opposite direction - issuing a limited edition it plans to sell for $1,000 a copy. picked by nateebiinature 4 months ago

Years before he was a soldier seized by Palestinian militants, 11-year-old Gilad Schalit penned a simple parable about how enemies can get along. His story, "When the Shark and the Fish First Met," has now been published as a children's book that teaches tolerance — while its author, now 21, spends his 19th month captive in the Gaza Strip. picked by mitzuzake 2 years ago

A Hamptons library director says a local zoning board is blocking the creation of a children's reading wing -- solely because it might attract book-hungry youngsters from lower-class areas. picked by kakana 4 months ago

This book originated as a by-product. During my time as the head of the science section of a now-defunct Swiss news magazine, I accumulated a stack of research studies about weird experiments. Unfortunately my editor had no desire to see these in print, because they violated all the basic journalistic criteria : they were utterly inconsequential, hopelessly ancient or both !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!... read full post picked by Bornbad 12 months ago

Watch a number of videos from a fire that broke out earlier today in the Hollywood Hills near Griffith Park and the famed Hollywood sign. picked by indierockcafe 3 years ago

Another Oprah's book list author confesses that his autobiography is false. He claimed that he survived in a concentration camp because a girl threw him apples over the fence every day for 7 months. The fence that people were killed if they got near it. Yea that fence.

Years later, he is on a blind date and dang it if it wasn't the same girl! So he married her.

And people believed this. picked by Moe 11 months ago

Its tongue flickers snakishly from a mouth filled with toxic potential while its body boasts the bulk of a crocodile’s. Armed with the lethal weapons of our most feared reptilian counterparts, the Komodo dragon is best left alone. picked by bornbad 6 months ago

Politically correct German education officials have ordered a character called Bruno in a new children's book to be renamed Aydan. Officials in Hamburg were reportedly unhappy at having a character with the same name as Sacha Baron Cohen's Nazi-praising Austrian journalist Bruno. picked by kakana 4 months ago

Thomas Monahan, a 9-year old boy died in a house fire while attempting to rescue his dog Sophie. He wrote a book which shows the bond he and his dog shared during their too brief of a life together. Article also has link to book. Guys, if you read this, be prepared to claim some dust got in your eye. Very heart-breaking. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

U.S. President George W. Bush shows up in some very non-presidential situations in the new "Off-Color Coloring Book: The Bush Years." Whether Bush is shown dressed as a cheerleader or drinking beer, the coloring book portrays the president in an unflattering light that its authors said is simply good-natured fun. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago