Friday, May 13, 2005
Anyway. On to the links from others! Thanks, everyone!
From Zazoo: "This sounds crazy...read about this club night in Paris. It's the ultimate Clusterf#¢k!"
From Glenna: great minds (or something like that) think alike.
From Danny: Gothtronic!
From Tracy: "Charlie Chaplin's FBI files. Does America ever really change?" Also from Tracy: a really cool language map of America, and Millennium Park in Chicago.
From Kathryn (long ago; I just rediscovered it this morning!): Digihitch.
From Dr. Matt: "a great site for the francophile in all of us!!"
Thanks again, everyone. See you Monday!
Thursday, May 12, 2005
It's the final Clusterf#ck! Come dance the night away this Saturday at Jacobs and say farewell to Zazoo and Satori before they go off to Europe and become international superstars! (Well, they're coming back after two weeks or so. I think.)
Blessed are the librarians, for they may seem meek and quiet but are actually hoarding vast sums to donate to the libraries upon their death.
Actually, we could use a few librarians like that in Ohio. The library situation, it ain't pretty. It probably doesn't help that some librarians think their patrons are idiots. (This has been a big topic of discussion on several library lists this week.)
Meanwhile, however, the Library of American Broadcasting has some great photos online now, and the Utah Digital Newspapers project has digitzed papers from the past.
The new National Library of Singapore looks beautiful. And it's even environmentally friendly!
Did you ever notice how many fictional characters live in Manhattan? Someone at the New York Times has, and he's proposing a map of literary Manhattan. Send in your contributions! (If you need to register for the article, go to Bugmenot for a quick ID.)
And finally, something not really library-related: an interactive map of shipwrecks worldwide! Arrrrr!
Tomorrow: lots of links from others. Stay tuned.
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
- Did you know Edward Gorey illustrated The War of the Worlds? Spiffy!
- What was the scariest villain in kids' books? A UK survey has some weird results. I can't really think of anyone who terrified me as a kid. Then again, I read a lot of Nancy Drew books. Not too many scary characters there.
- Speaking of creepy characters, however: Dracula Blogged tells the story as it happens in the book, with an entry for each day of events.
- A recap of the time travel convention from last weekend. No one from the future showed up - or, if they did, they didn't own up to their ancestry. (What's the reverse of ancestry? Descendestry?)
- Crop circle season is upon us!
- The Life Ball happens next week in Vienna. Be there and be fabulous, thanks to the Style Bible.
- That undersea hotel I linked to a while back may be way out of my league, but now there's an undersea restaurant in the Maldives...which is also way out of my price range. But it's pretty!
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Every now and then I gripe about how the future never got here and we don't have jetpacks and where's our space colonization program and blah blah blah. So occasionally it's good to see things like the Googlebot mural and the VideoGames Live! show and remember that the future probably is getting here, just much slower than I'd like it to.
Of course, if we had time machines, this whole argument would be moot...
Since we do not have time machines (yet) and everything old is new again these days, check out the Professor's website. And Mary Ann's, too. (Yes, THAT professor!) A warning: if you have a song stuck in your brain, both these sites will happily overwrite it with the theme song from Gilligan's Island. Arrrrrgh.
Stolen from PCJM: find out what eye color your potential children would have. If Bunny and I had kids, they would apparently have brown eyes, no matter what.
And finally: start battening down the hatches, because the apocalypse has to be coming soon with this sort of nonsense going on. (I love the poem and the "it never leaves the house!" quote here. Hee!)
Monday, May 09, 2005
To start, there's a great roundup of places to find free photos for a weblog or article or other endeavor. The usage rules vary, of course, depending on the site. Then there's a repository of industrial photography, which is stark and bleak and very cool. And finally, you can put a photo on a stamp. It's not that cheap, but how neat is it to have personalized stamps?
Note to the Club Creatures: check out this extensive list of Paris museums for your upcoming trip. You can search by interest or by arrondissement! The Musee D'Orsay is great, and I am still kicking myself for not visiting the Catacombs when I had the chance.
As a twist on the concept that there are no original ideas, there's now a theory that there are only seven basic plots out there. Discuss. It's enough to make you turn to reading textbooks and looking for secret messages in the highlighting patterns.
And finally...now that Gwen Stefani seems to be giving the harajuku girls some time off, you can check out their compatriots in their natural habitat. I have to admit that I love the gothic Lolita look.
