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Bookbedonnerd! The Richmond Literary Festival, 23 - 25 October 08 October 14th, 2008 by Ben - Editor Alert! The little town of Richmond in the Northern Cape - situated where the N1 meets the R398 (map) - is celebrating its first anniversary as a “booktown” by hosting its very own fair for the bookish - the Bookbedonnerd Karoo Literary Festival.

…it’s done. Victory: Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has told MPs that plans to extend terror detention to 42 days will be dropped from the Counter-Terrorism Bill. It follows a heavy defeat for the government in the House of Lords, which threw out the plan by 309 votes to 118.

A 20-year-old Palestinian man was injured by live fire after Israeli soldiers shot at him as he walked through the Huwwara checkpoint south of Nablus on Monday evening. Adham Shihadah had been waiting at the military checkpoint for about two hours.

Here is the Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 edition of what’s making news and interesting reads from around the world. Also please note that off to the left there are two widgets with updates on news from Asia and the world in a separate page: Around Asia & Around the World New Feeds.

The official site has posted a brief shakedown for episode 4, ‘Destroy Malevolence,’ a new webcomic, ‘Ambush,’ and the teaser video.

Image from Into the Wardrobe:: a C.S. Lewis web site started by John Visser. (It is worth checking out.) I’ve been reading Making the Best Of It by John Stackhouse, where he examines the works of C.S. Lewis, Reinhold Niebuhr and Dietrich Bonhoeffer for example and direction in how the church and culture should interact.

Words_Jeremy Ripley Independent clothing company The Hundreds recently teamed up with skate brand eS and Canadian retailer Livestock to initiate the “Boarder Control” project.  Livestock reinterpreted the Theory Mid, toning it up in turquoise, robin’s egg blue, pink, orange, and grey.

  That’s a bit grandiose. I don’t feel like this is as huge as Hendrix at Monterrey Pop - or even Hendrix opening for the Monkees. But it’s still very, very cool. Last week, I posted about the Penetrators’ song,”The Scandalizer” and its appearance on NPR’s “All Songs Considered.” I’d mentioned

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In February of this year, I slagged off Binary as a stealth bar and it looks like I wasn’t the only one left unimpressed as customers stayed away in droves. In the summer, during peak drinking season, the owners had the balls to shut it down for serious refurbishment and it re-launched recently.