N.Y. Times : "Last winter Louis Rastelli, a struggling Montreal publisher, found himself suddenly in need of a brand-new distribution method.
Canada’s major bookstore chain decided that stocking the literary zines and chapbooks that Rastelli publishes had become too much of a hassle, and he was increasingly unable to get his product into the hands of its intended audience. Rastelli’s solution: buy some surplus cigarette machines – the Canadian government had recently restricted them in restaurants, and so they were in plentiful supply – and retrofit them into coin-operated delivery devices for art, literature and music. The ‘‘Distroboto’’ was born." see also :
The Book Drop and
The Poetry Dispenser (thanks to
ed and
jessamyn, respectively)
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is punctilious
| source : web1913 |
Punctilious \Punc*til"ious\ (-y[u^]s), a. [Cf. It. puntiglioso,
Sp. puntilloso.]
Attentive to punctilio; very nice or exact in the forms of
behavior, etiquette, or mutual intercourse; precise; exact in
the smallest particulars. ``A punctilious observance of
divine laws.'' --Rogers. ``Very punctilious copies of any
letters.'' --The Nation.
Punctilious in the simple and intelligible instances of
common life. --I. Taylor.
-- {Punc*til"ious*ly}, adv. -- {Punc*til"ious*ness}, n.
| source : wn |
punctilious
adj : marked by precise accordance with details; "was worryingly
meticulous about trivial details"; "punctilious in his
attention to rules of etiquette" [syn: {meticulous}]