Ten years ago, two young graduate students at Stanford University incorporated Google Today, Larry Page and Sergey Brin are billionaires, and the company name is used as a verb.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7597599.stm

'Harry Potter' Author J.K. Rowling Wins Copyright-Infringement Lawsuit
Judge blocks publication of proposed reference book, awards $6,750 in damages.
http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1594367/story.jhtml

Bureau of Labor Statistics - Employment Situation Summary
Employment Situation Summary, August 2008: "The unemployment rate rose from 5.7 to 6.1 percent in August, and non-farm payroll employment continued to trend down (-84,000), the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor has reported. In August, employment fell in manufacturing and employment services, while mining and health care continued to add jobs. Average hourly earnings rose by 7 cents, or 0.4 percent, over the month."[Table of Contents]
Center for Economic and Policy Research: "The unemployment rate jumped to 6.1 percent in August, the highest level since September of 2003. The establishment survey showed the economy losing another 84,000 jobs in August. With downward revisions to data for the prior two months, the economy has lost an average of 81,000 jobs over the last three months. Virtually all the data in the household survey indicates that the labor market is weakening at a rapid pace. The 6.1 percent unemployment rate is only 0.2 percentage points below the 6.3 percent peak reached in June of 2003. The employment to population ratio (EPOP) ratio fell to 62.1 percent, only slightly above the 62.0 percent low hit in September of 2003. Unemployment rose among almost all demographic groups, but women were hit hardest, with a rise of 0.7 pp to 5.3 percent. This is equal to the high for the last downturn in September of 2003. Black women saw their unemployment rate jump by 1.6 percentage points to 9.1 percent. The unemployment rate for blacks overall rose by 0.9 pp to 10.6 percent. The unemployment rate for Hispanics jumped by 0.6 pp to 8.0 percent, the highest level since reaching 8.1 percent in July of 2003."

Dennice Alexander is the first full-time administrator to oversee the libraries within Arkansas state prison system, which holds more than 14,000 inmates spread among 20 locations. "They're trying to rehabilitate themselves," Alexander said. "We have (prisoners) leaving everyday and some of them have been in since they were 17, 16, and now they're 35 and 40. The world has changed, so they don't know about Internet or banking." Alexander receives only $20,000 a year to purchase books, magazines and newspapers for inmates. And she's working to create late fees for overdue books, possibly charging an inmate's commissary account if a borrowed book stays out past two weeks. As much as 90 per cent of all books in circulation at the prison units come from donations.
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hVtuEINxI_hW5q8hiuQ5Y8uu937g

"Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers" benefited from a late surge in public support to win the title of oddest book title of the past 30 years, The Bookseller magazine said. The book--a comprehensive record of Greek postal routes by Derek Willan--grabbed 13 percent of the 1,000 international public votes cast to chose the oddest title from the winners of the annual competition that began in 1978. It beat "People Who Don't Know They're Dead" and "How To Avoid Huge Ships" into second and third places with 11 and 10 percent respectively.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080905/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_britain_book;_ylt=AkU5kZTQWOXk85tnKTbeMrMEtbAF

Keepers (books I would read again)
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by Thad Carhart
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

What does your state name mean?
Readers of the muse come from these eight states:
Florida: flowers
Illinois: warriors
Indiana: land of the Indians
Michigan: large body of water
New York: New plus the name of an English duke--after York, England, to honor the then Duke of York (later King James II of England).
North Carolina: North plus Charles--from the name Carolus, in honor of King Charles I of England.
Ohio: large creek
Pennsylvania: Penn’s Woods
See all states: http://www.jimwegryn.com/Names/StateNames.htm

Coming to Shumaker charity sale in Toledo
Beach Road by James Patterson and Peter de Jonge hardbound 390 pages
Legal thriller set in the Hamptons
http://www.bookreporter.com/reviews2/0316159786.asp

Reflex by Dick Francis paperbound 346 pages
“When life kicks you in the teeth, get caps.”
http://members.aol.com/dfbooks/reflex.html

Peacock Pie, 75th anniversary edition by Walter de la Mare hardbound 111 pages
Rhymes for children, revised and expanded with illustrations by Louise Brierley

S is for Silence by Sue Grafton hardbound 374 pages
http://www.suegrafton.com/titlepage.asp?ISBN=0399152970

The Cold Moon, a Lincoln Rhyme novel by Jefferey Deaver hardbound 400 pages
Deaver is a former journalist, folksinger and attorney, and yes—he played a corrupt reporter on a soap opera
www.jeffereydeaver.com

Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! by Fannie Flagg paperbound 467 pages
Life in a small Missouri town, life in New York City, mystery, manipulation by the press