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Friday, January 13, 2006 Today: Links from others! Thanks everyone! From Danny: the U.S. arrests a Leaether Strip fan who had the words 'suicide bomber' written in his journal. Nice. Welcome to the police state that is the U.S. in the 2000s. (As Danny says, at least Leaether Strip gets some promotional value out of the incident.) From Holly: Tomorrow is Official Dress Up Your Pet Day! Also from Holly, and on the local media here: a Cincinnati woman dies and is kept up in a room for over two years, because she thought she would come back to life. Er. Yeah. From a few library types: Librarians are very very stressed out. More than firefighters! More than police officers! Don't mess with us! From Bunny: TikiBar TV is fantastic. Watch it. Now! I'm stressed, dammit! Have a spiffy weekend, everyone! See you Monday, or maybe Tuesday. (We get Monday off, plus it's my birthday, so who knows what's going to happen that day...) Jinnet @ 1/13/2006 : comments: 1 Thursday, January 12, 2006 Hey, librarian is one of the coolest job options for 2006! Right above...clergy. Er? Apparently I am a rotten librarian, because I took the "are you a librarian?" quiz (found on librarian.net) and ended up with a score that qualified me for "bookstore employee." I want to take a quiz asking "are you a law librarian?" and see whether I've just become extremely specialized over time or if I should look into selling pencils on the street instead. Ben Franklin turns 300 this year (well, he would if he was still alive), and the search engine Clusty is paying tribute to the man. The YouTube website has been nicknamed "the Flickr of video." I hadn't heard of it till now, but it looks to be interesting. If you're looking for an alternative to Google Earth, Map24 now offers 3-D visualizations of an address. I tried my workplace address and found that it worked really well. (Okay, I was sort of hoping for an actual 3-D simulation of the building, but that's a little extreme.) Best library weblog name ever: Dead Fish and Unnamed Substances. I wonder if these people work at the same library Bunny did a few years ago, or if some librarian types are the same no matter where you are. Tomorrow: links from others! Jinnet @ 1/12/2006 : comments: 4 Wednesday, January 11, 2006 Also, news from the Mazes & Monsters world: Author Rona Jaffe has died. Bunny has the scoop over on the site. Jinnet @ 1/11/2006 : comments: 0 The creator of LSD is turning 100. Who says drugs are bad for you?!? (I'm kidding. Please don't send hate mail.) In keeping with the hallucinatory theme...the National Library of Medicine is co-sponsoring an exhibit on the nature of the Frankenstein monster; an excerpt from the excellently named Hypochondriac's Pocket Guide to Horrible Diseases You Probably Already Have talks about feeling like you're on fire; another books explores the physics of fairy tales; and Pretty/Scary celebrates smart, pretty, scary women in horror. Jinnet @ 1/11/2006 : comments: 0 Tuesday, January 10, 2006 Google Video has some sort of arrangement with the Archive of American Television, and as a result you can see a brilliant (and long - six parts!) interview with Carroll Spinney, aka Big Bird, online. There are other Sesame Street puppeteer interviews that will hopefully be added soon as well. Woohoo! I had no idea the Star Wars kids pages were so cool. You can make droids! And test your music identification skills! And more! More geeky fun: you can choose your own adventurous toppings with the help of the Pizza Dice (between this and the four-way rubber bands, also pictured, I love Flying Buffalo) and then serve the pizza on plates which look like Photoshop color grids. Awesome. Has anyone tried this little gadget which apparently enables transfers from cassettes and albums to mp3 format? I have a zillion mix tapes that I want to convert. And lastly, make your own subway service sign. You can be as polite or as rude as you like! Jinnet @ 1/10/2006 : comments: 1 Monday, January 09, 2006 Today we have a little bit of artiness for everyone: In music: a giant list of classical and opera music used in movies. In literature: James Frey's book became a bestseller when Oprah discovered it. Now the Smoking Gun has discovered that most of it is wildly exaggerated. It'll be interesting to see what comes of this. In art: perfumes and deodorants inspired by Salvador Dali! Maybe the fumes make you see melting clocks. In crafts: Knitta Please is graffiti with yarn, sort of. In fashion: Hel Looks is the Harajuku of Finland, only not quite so crazy. It's a lot colder there, after all. But there are some definite distinctive looks to be found as you page through! Jinnet @ 1/09/2006 : comments: 0

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