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Decorating a home library is a tough task, especially if you are short on books! Then again, not everyone is fortunate enough to have a few hundred hardbacks on hand. Considering that even the smallest of home studies requires a substantial number of volumes, the cost of filling a few bookshelves can really add up!

Many people feel that it's silly to purchase books for pure decorative value. While we certainly understand this, we also savor the opportunity to change the mind of such individuals! Our books are so beautiful on the outside that their interior ceases to be important. What's more, they are available for purchase by the foot as well as the yard. In other words, no more spending hours in used bookstores looking for space fillers. At Book Décor, this process takes a matter of seconds!

The eldest girl (who was 13) explained that they were on their way to the Hannah Montana concert at the Verizon Center and that they were lost. I offered to help them find their way, but demanded to know where their parents were. Apparently, tickets to the concert being scarce, their parents had bought them one way tickets on Metro and sent them to the concert unescorted.

I was shocked. What parent would send their sub-13-year-old daughters into Metro DC unsupervised? Surely, this had to be an aberration. But as I exited the Chinatown Metro to walk the girls toward Will Call, I saw several more groups of young girls trying to navigate the large crowd alone.

Very Unique Piano for sale - would fit well into a "Pottery Barn" style house - needs a little tuning. When we had it moved to our house from our old house, the moving cost was $200, FYI. Don't know the maker.

1. Release a new line of sneakers at a ridiculously inflated price.
2. Hire hitmen to murder kids lining up to buy the sneakers.
3. capitalize on the resulting "people will kill for them" hype.

Score an early victory for Arianna Huffington's ambitious celebrity blogging project. Slashdot has cited a post in which former RIAA head Hilary Rosen denounces the iTunes/iPod/iTMS system as a cruel lock-in. She even indulges in a little Reaganesque rhetoric: Steve Jobs, Let my Music Go,she pleads.

I've always disliked the iTunes/iPod/iTMS lock-in model myself. Yes, it is possible to use non-iTMS music on the iPod, but only if it's encoded in the patent-encumbered mp3 format. Those of us who prefer the ogg vorbis format (which takes up less storage than equivalently-encoded mp3s)--or the higher-quality lossless format that is FLAC are shit out of luck. Worse, if we encode our own CDs via iTunes, we are subject to ridiculous DRM restrictions to what would otherwise fall under the "fair use" provisions of the copyright law.