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| Friday, November 04, 2005 |
It's Links from Others Day! Thanks, everyone.
From Glenna: Wild Mood Swings, where your mood takes you to a random website; Moonscopes from Yellow Springs; and a punch in the stomach over the 2,000 dead in Iraq.
From Holly: a camel library! Cool!
From Bunny: Meet Cleaver Theatre has been reviewed in the Secret Scroll Digest. They like us! They really really like us!
From a few different places: What Kind of Cheese Are You? (I am Brie. Woo!) and the ultra-cute story of Finnegan the squirrel, who is being raised with a litter of Pomeranians.
Have a spiffy weekend, everyone. See you Monday.
Jinnet @
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| Thursday, November 03, 2005 |
Meta-librarian geekout moment: So I've been wondering why my (admittedly crappy) photo of Grokker pins from Internet Librarian has been getting so many hits...and then this morning I looked at the IL Blog to find that Marydee Ojala had linked to it! (Marydee is the editor of Online Magazine. She was also on our flight out from Monterey to Salt Lake City and was happy to see that someone else was a fan of Kraftwerk.)
Grokker was the big hit of the conference, judging from the crowd around its booth at the exhibit hall. A similar visually-oriented way of using the web is at Mooter.
Happy Worldwide Usability Day! There are events going on in 35 different countries. Go and spread the word, and share your opinions on technology, usability, and humanity.
From a library list which labeled this "how to drive your shelvers crazy," I bring you...broken shelves. Purposefully broken, that is. It's a German company, which makes sense because I'd expect these shelves to be in the background of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari or some similar expressionist film.
For the legal librarians, LLRX has a good summary of what's going on with the various courts affected by Hurricane Katrina.
Walt Crawford examines the recent phenomenon of life trumping blogging. Folderol readers, here's a serious question: would you prefer quality over quantity, or do you like the current setup?
For the geographically geeky (and I'm including myself here), check out Earth Contest. With prizes, even!
Tomorrow: links from others. Stay tuned.
Jinnet @
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| Wednesday, November 02, 2005 |
Geek alert: Worldwide D&D GameDay is this Saturday! Prepare your character sheets and polish your dice! (I say this with love. I'm a geek myself, if not a D&D-playing one.)
You could also theoretically drink absinthe while you play, although your character might die awfully quickly. Absinthe is making a comeback in the U.S. Hooray!
By the end of this month, British pubs will be able to stay open as late as they want to, which will be a radical change from having to close at 11 every night. No word yet on whether they'll serve absinthe eventually.
If you work at a place that goes by Mystery House, you should most definitely put out a weblog detailing what goes on there.
Finally, Poly9 uses Google Earth to solve the pesky problem of "where was that UFO again?" Hee.
Jinnet @
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| Tuesday, November 01, 2005 |
And verily, the Great Wall of Bread appeared, and there was much rejoicing throughout the land...until those who worshipped toast learned of the Great Wall...
First it was knitted robots zombies. Then it was knitted zombies. And now, there's a whole knitted digestive system on the loose. When will the madness end?!?
Has anyone experimented with the cold heat soldering iron yet? Does it work? Does it break immediately?
And lastly, I would have bid on this if I'd had a way to play it. This was the Holy Grail of Thompson Twins devotees back in the day!
Jinnet @
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| Monday, October 31, 2005 |
Man, going to a conference - even a very cool one like Internet Librarian - really wreaks havoc with posting good Halloween links. Here it is Halloween already and no time to write anything! I also missed the local horror festival. Dang.
(Incidentally, the photos from last week are up - click on the Flickr badge to see them.)
AMC finishes its Monsterfest marathon tonight, and their site has various games and other fun ways to occupy your time if you get bored - or too scared - to watch.
Glenna warns that the Landover Baptists are on the scene, hunting wiccans and doing their doggone best to stop Halloween. (It's not serious, don't worry.) In a similar vein, the Onion tells us to watch out for Homeland Security officers searching trick-or-treat bags.
Fun spooky art for the holiday: Deviant Art, of course, and also Dan Henderson's Tyranny of Confection.
And for those of us who went to school in Athens, home of an amazing Halloween celebration, there's a documentary entitled "Athens Asylum" all about the Ridges. Oooo.
Have a great Halloween, everyone! See you tomorrow.
Jinnet @
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