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In “The Man in the Empty Boat,” Salzman Confronts a Challenging Year With A Sense of Humor And Hope For Personal Peace 

(New York, NY – February 13th , 2012) Open Road Integrated Media (www.openroadmedia.com), a digital publisher and multimedia content company, announced today that it is digitally publishing an E-riginal from award-winning and best-selling writer Mark Salzman. In the memoir The Man in the Empty Boat, a book of love and family, loss and enlightenment, Salzman confronts a year of catastrophe in which he suffers from acute anxiety and debilitating panic attacks all compounded by the sudden ...

The international bestseller and worldwide phenomenon Go the F**k to Sleep is now available as an enhanced ebook from Akashic Books and Open Road Integrated Media. The enhanced edition, available on iTunes and delivered to all major retailers, includes priceless, page-by-page narration of the delightfully profane lyrics by renowned film director Werner Herzog, along with new videos of author Adam Mansbach, illustrator Ricardo Cortés, and Akashic publisher Johnny Temple on the genesis of the book and its viral success. “I still can’t believe that I can walk up to any parent ...

Via Boing Boing, I found and enjoyed General Electric's Instagram feed. It's a visual guide of artistic photos inside their technology, research and history.—Lauren

These are some of the cutest images I've seen in a long time. Check out photos from the National Spelling Bee ("the nation's largest and longest-running educational promotion") over on The Atlantic today. Also, learn the definition of C-Y-M-O-T-R-I-C-H-O-U-S.—Laura

The New York Public Library has gone the extra mile with their new app (to be an ongoing series) released on Tuesday, May 31. The first "issue" of their iPad app, NYPL Biblion, focuses on the ...

Sean Power had his laptop stolen last night. He had a bit of software on it (Project Prey) that can be activated to record what's going on on your laptop including taking webcam pics of whoever is using it. Through this, and Twitter, he tracked down the thief's name and the location of the laptop, and called the cops. Twitter friends in the area showed up to keep an eye on the thief until the police arrived. Here's the full twitter stream.—Pablo

Next Friday, five hundred lucky folks will get an overnight stay at one of the most ...