Jack Kerouac's legendary 'scroll' comes to Columbia College, typos and allSource: Chicago Tribune
The manuscript being prepared for display at Columbia College on Thursday morning wasn't some ancient religious text, but what some call the "holy grail" of 20th century American literature: the 120-foot scroll upon which Jack Kerouac typed his seminal novel, "On the Road," in 19 …
Playboy archives 1950s Magazines on DVD-ROMSource: TheState.com
Bondi Digital Publishing of New York, a three-year-old company that publishes magazine archives in digital editions, will be putting out a DVD-ROM set with page-by-page reproductions of all 72 issues of Playboy published in the 1950s.

Destroy All Rational Thought Part 2

There must be nothing in the world like stealing your kid's hollow chocolate Easter bunny on Easter Eve and turning it into a quick bong. Ripped off the end of one of the ears and turned it into a longer, detachable tail, and suddenly I'm back on track in this writing business.
Kerouac and Disney, two visions of AmericaSource: syntaxofthings.typepad.com
The National Geographic has an interesting article on the explosive growth of Orlando, Florida, and how one man named Disney with his big ideas was largely responsible for converting what was vast swampland into what has become, for better or for worse, a model of the American me …