India's OMICS Publishing Group threatens scholarly critic with $1 billion lawsuit, jail time (Boing Boing) OMICS Publishing Group, an Indian scholarly publisher has threatened to sue one of its critics, Metadata librarian Jeffrey Beall, for $1 billion, and has threatened him with prison time over posts he made to his prominent Scholarly Open Access site. Changes at The New York Times Book Review (New York Observer) The New York Times Book Review is modernizing under the editorship of Pamela Paul, who was appointed to the position in early April. The Astoria Bookshop to Open This August on 31st Street (We Heart Astoria) I’ll just let that title sink in...

So we’re all hip to Google’s latest consumer mega-project, Glass, right? The company that's synonymous with ‘looking things up on the Web’ hasn’t released much information on its Glass project lately—not since they opened pre-orders to developers and media at their 2012 I/O event. A New York City resident who describes himself as a "wearable computing and augmented reality enthusiast" spotted Google co-founder Sergey Brin rocking a test pair on a NYC subway earlier in the year; supposedly another hundred or so pairs were out there being tested at the time. In the meantime, Google has given us plebeians a little Google Glass taster in...

- i have sounded all things with my sight; / and i struggle and shriek ere the daybreak, being driven to madness with fright - h.p. lovecraft - nemesis - Google have announced a new development, Project Glass, based around augmented reality goggles/glasses which can add Google functionality (maps, searches, sharing, etc.) onto the real world. Here's their speculative trailer: A little more on the project here and here. As a twitter conversation I'm having while I write this is affirming, the trailer has...issues: @cryurchin @lddurbin Totally a fan of this idea until the guy asked for directions from the bookshop front door to the music...