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Friday, October 21, 2005 Friday! We'll be gone all next week - I may post next Friday, depending on jet lag and the like. On to the links from others! From Danny: the progress of someone building the Lego version of the Star Wars destroyer. We have something very similar to this that we haven't built yet. We may be using this as a cheat sheet in the future! Also from Danny: "Academia Embraces Spooky Studies." Woo! From Glenna: Breast Cancer Action, for people who are more activist-oriented, I suppose. Bootsy Collins, funkmaster extraordinaire and native Cincinnatian, has recorded two songs cheering on the Bengals. Truth is stranger than fiction... Survivor Toyland: full of drama, injuries, and action figures in compromising poses. Happy 40th birthday to the Slurpee! Did you know that the man who first created the Slurpee was a convenience store owner named Omar Knedlik? Sounds like something out of the Simpsons. Have a spiffy weekend and week, everyone! See you next week, or maybe the Monday after that. Jinnet @ 10/21/2005 : comments: 0 Thursday, October 20, 2005 Next week, the Spooky Librarians will be living up to their name by being at the Internet Librarian conference in Monterey (we're staying at the Portola Plaza Hotel, come by and say hi!) and also running around with Remo D. and the other crazed denizens of the Manor of Mayhem. We'll take lots of pictures and share them when we get back! Meanwhile, it's time to safety-proof your Halloween costume. (I love the illustrations here, but I really think they should have done a "Goofus & Gallant" style comparison of safe and unsafe costumes.) I hadn't heard of blog carnivals until now. Have I been under a rock or something? I know that articles on libraries and librarians can get awfully repetitive (exhibit A: the saga between Google Print and libraries and authors), but this article celebrating libraries has the great descriptive phrase "book worms and journal raccoons" which I'd never heard before. I like the journal raccoon label and want to adopt it for my own! Fortunately, Kurt Vonnegut has our back. (Thanks to the Graveworm for sending this in.) The Flickr group of Libraries & Librarians (which I'm a part of, marginally - I have to take more photos!) meets Google Maps. We are legion. Muhahaha. Finally, the always-cool Library of Congress has a new online exhibit of women's suffrage scrapbooks. Very cool. Tomorrow: links from others! Thanks to everyone who's sent in stuff already! Jinnet @ 10/20/2005 : comments: 1 Wednesday, October 19, 2005 I can definitely think of times when a secret room would come in very handy. Maybe I'll make one! Coming up this weekend: seasonal festivities like the annual Pumpkin Festival in Circleville, along with non-season activities like the International World Rock Paper Scissors Championship in Toronto. You can even check out the current league champions. Go scissors! Tis the season for both superstitions and the World Series, and of course there's a link. Baseball players are crazy superstitious. Or they suffer from OCD. Or both. (I am sort of torn on the World Series. I think I'm pulling for the White Sox, if only to have a Red Sox/White Sox back to back World Series championship occurrence that will probably signify the coming of the apocalypse.) Great reading: Esoterica, the Journal. Hey Mr. Graveworm, check this out. Fun random link of the day: create your own giallo! Or rather, have a giallo randomly created for you. The plot of mine: "A man is butchered. A blind student is mistaken for somone else by the perpetrator of the the crime, and after discovering an old painting, she must prove herself innocent, even though the detective may be involved in the crime." Whoa. Jinnet @ 10/19/2005 : comments: 0 Tuesday, October 18, 2005 Now THIS is cool. As a way to raise funds for CanTeen, a New Zealand organization working with teenagers who have cancer, the Muppets have redone their "Mah Na Mah Na" song for a 60-second commercial. (The new title: "Bandanana," for the bandannas they're selling.) Rowlf and the Swedish Chef and Kermit and the Electric Mayhem Band all make appearances in the ad, which you can watch online. Bandanana! Also cool: little knitted robots, conquering the world one stitch (purl?) at a time. Soon they will set out to battle the frightening knitted zombies. Yarrrrrrrrn! Yarrrrrrrrrn! October is National Cider and Perry Month. Drink up! I had no idea what perry was, being an American and all. Perry, it turns out, is made from pears. Ooooh. I so want to try this now. In a faint nod to the overcommercialization of the holiday season, I am putting up a link to a Christmas tree. But this is not just any Christmas tree. This is a Very Electronic Christmas Tree which teaches you how to solder! (It's also from American Scientific & Surplus Store, which gives it added cool points.) Bunny sent in a link to the new DigiMemo pad software, which lets you use ordinary pens and paper to put handwritten notes online. This looks pretty cool. And lastly, in scary pop culture news: Marilyn Manson is creating a perfume and cosmetic line. Smells Like Heresy? Dope Show Scent? Sweet Dreams (of Ritualistic Killing and Other Pretensions?) Who knows? Jinnet @ 10/18/2005 : comments: 0 Monday, October 17, 2005 It's always nice when my hometown gets in the news. Er, well, maybe not so much. Today we are all about art at Folderol HQ. To wit: nature art via the New England foliage! science art via Visions of Science! art to tell the story of Burning Man, which is art in itself! art mobs! (This is a great idea.) an art project - black mail boxes, i.e. black mailboxes, i.e. blackmail boxes! Brilliant! Jinnet @ 10/17/2005 : comments: 2

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