Friday, April 01, 2005
Saturday's weather in Cleveland:
High: 42
Rain/Snow/Wind
Agh!!!!
See you Monday. If we're not stuck in a snowdrift.
Thursday, March 31, 2005
The one good thing to come out of the whole Schiavo debacle is the focus on living wills. The Wall Street Journal has a chart which shows each state's procedure.
Another chart to see is the bureaucratic nightmare into which copyright law has transmogrified. That was a really weird sentence, but the chart is even stranger. For those librarians sick of trying to figure out such things, why not consider an alternative career? I am still trying to find a way to be a full-time genealogist. Who eats.
The new Life of Books weblog says that "the philosophy of the blog is that the future will actually end up looking a lot like today." The futurist in me rails at this. The pragmatist grudgingly agrees. If you'd rather explore the past than argue about the future, this Book of Days is fascinating. Did you know Haydn was born on this day?
We leave for Cinema Wasteland tomorrow morning, so there will probably be no updates until Monday. (Our hotel allegedly has free internet access, though, and we're bringing a laptop, so you never know.) Have a spiffy weekened, everyone!
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
There we are on the Cinema Wasteland website. Stop by and see us this weekend! We will probably be skittering around the place instead of staying at the booth like we usually do. (We're trying this new thing called socializing.)
In addition to Cinema Wasteland in Cleveland, the great festival of Spamarama is going on in Austin this weekend. And in honor (or defiance) of the switch to Daylight Savings Time this weekend, Monday is National Workplace Napping Day. Bring your pillow to work!
For travelers, the Roadtrip Effect is a fun little gizmo that animates your route, a la Sky Captain or Indiana Jones or any movie from the 1930s and '40s. (For Macs only. Boy, there's something I hardly ever get to say.)
If you are a mysterious person, you already know that darkness is good for you. But for those of you who think fluorescent lighting is a great invention, think twice! Embrace the darkness! Maybe I can show this to the higher-ups here as a reason to keep the lights off in my office.
And finally, something that is not spooky nor travel-related, but just darn cute: Bird Nest Box Cams. Watch birds flutter around and lay eggs and do other birdesque things!
p.s. Blogger is being amazingly annoying this morning. Let me know if the links are screwy.
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Now that I've given the Graveworm a heart attack, I bring you news of Daleks. One tried to visit Parliament the other day, apparently. This is not really helping adult viewers still scarred by emotional trauma (and guess what, Mr. Worm - in the new Doctor Who, the Daleks can FLY. Muhahahaha!).
If Daleks don't scare you (or interest you), how about a nice Box of Monsters? Or maybe a Poison Garden? (English majors, prepare for flashbacks to Rappacini's Daughter.)
After all the creepy stuff, here's something nice and non-frightening: baseball season is just around the corner! Unless you count the freakish bodies of steroid users, in which case even baseball is kind of scary these days.
Monday, March 28, 2005
We got a very cool email over the weekend from a very cool artist - Rain of Broken Umbrella. (I still owe her email back; part of the weekend was spent reliving the '80s via Duran Duran.)
Other interesting artistic endeavors: The Gates: An Experiment in Collective Memory explores the effect of art in an electronic world, and also has a blog; Kamiel Proost uses dollar bills as canvases; and Copy-Art makes art available and accessible to anyone who wants to use it (or contribute).
Early Modern Texts provides a sort of English-to-English translation for modern readers. It's an interesting concept, and also (if inadvertently) provides a springboard for discussion on whether "updating" a work takes away from the original intent.
