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How Your Kids Are Outsmarting All Your Parental Controls

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This fascinating article in The Wall Street Journal details an arms-race taking place in America’s households. Concerned parents are using internet blocking and filtering techniques on their tech devices, while their children are diligently figuring out how to defeat them. Spoiler alert: The kids are winning.

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J.K. Rowling is writing a new movie in the Harry Potter-verse

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J.K. Rowling is writing a new movie in the Harry Potter-verse

Warner Bros. has just announced a new Harry Potter movie that probably won't actually star Harry Potter. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is the first in a new series of movies set in the world of Harry Potter, and the screenplay will be written by J.K. Rowling herself.

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Dewey Decimal jewelry

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Some bookish jewelry and accessories from Etsy make good use of Dewey Decimal classifications, such as thependantemporium's I still believe in 398.2 (fairy tales) pendants (see also).

Then there's writtennerd's earrings made with Dewey numbers culled from real old hand-typed card catalogs (necklaces, too)!

(via BookRiot)

    


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btcarver
4107 days ago
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Spiffy!
Buffalo, NY
ambarella
4108 days ago
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Brings back memories from my library days.