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...online auction site eBay, a popular venue for people to sell off coveted tickets like these to the highest bidder, announced that it would remove any postings concerning Michael Jackson memorial tickets in an effort to combat scalpers. On the site on Monday night, the only items available under "Michael Jackson Memorial" were T shirts. Still, organizers admitted they couldn't completely stop the blatant profiteering. "For those who take advantage of this," promoter AEG's CEO Tim Leiweke said last week, "shame on you." (See pictures of Jackson's Neverland Ranch...
...individual decisions - including yours - every day: how much we drive, how much electricity we use, what we eat. Now a new website called My Emissions Exchange promises to bring the carbon market to your front yard. If you can drastically reduce the electricity you use in your home, the site will certify your personal emissions reductions and then broker those credits to companies looking to burnish their green reputations. "You're rewarded in two ways if you bring down your personal emissions," says Tom Reilly, the company's president. "You pay less in utility bills, and then you generate carbon...
Both Hibner and Kelly said they have been surprised by the fanfare - including links from several librarian websites and from the popular blog Boing Boing - their site has generated since starting in April. "It was just our nerdy project; we had a hard time getting our husbands to look at the thing," Kelly says. They field frequent requests to purchase the books highlighted on the site, although in true library fashion, they aren't for sale...
...while the site remains a fun hobby for its creators, Awful Library Books has struck a nerve with frustrated librarians, particularly those in Michigan, whose economy has been among the hardest hit during the recession. Hibner said she spends a lot of her time helping patrons draft résumés and plan career paths. To offer a book like, say, 1978's Careers in Management for the New Woman as help is useless advice at best and nearly criminal at worst...
...pair hope the blog does its part to highlight the need for libraries to weed their shelves - a task that requires proper funding. "Ideally, this site would die a natural death," Kelly says. Until then, we're content to kick back and read about Those Amazing Leeches - and marvel at the fact that such a book exists in the first place. See the top 10 literary stunts...