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| Friday, March 10, 2006 |
Today: links from others! Many thanks, everyone!
From Zazoo: a white lobster with blond "fur" has been found. Wow.
From the Graveworm: a funny and slightly disturbing remake of "Baby Got Back," only Christianized and retitled "Baby Got Book."
From Bunny: find out your wrestling name. I am apparently "Johnny Sicko," even though I told them I was female. Huh.
From a fellow librarian, feminist and bleeding-heart liberal: a weblog about the news and how frustrating it all is. You go, girl.
Dr. Matt the Commenter sent in so many good links that I'm just cutting and pasting his email:
The Darwin Digital Library of Evolution . Pretty cewl.
The Museum of RetroTechnology . Again, another awesome site that shows the creative process involved in invention.
The Music Genome Project . Perfect for bio-geeks such as myself. It can generate a music station for you based on your favorite song/artist. It’s not perfect.
Lastly, in sad news, Chloe won the Project Runway prize. Ugh. Bad 80’s prom dresses must be the rage in high fashion. I SO wanted Nick to win or Daniel V. (because they are eyecandy) but not Chloe. Yawn.
And there you have it. Have a spiffy weekend, everyone! See you Monday.
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| Thursday, March 09, 2006 |
So, with the extension of the Patriot Act, your library records are fair game for god knows how long. This just tempts me to check out the most subversive, bizarre combination of books possible to see if anything would happen. If I disappear one day, you'll know why!
Beat writer aficianados, take note: the New York Public Library has just acquired an archive of William S. Burroughs material, much of which has never been seen before by the public.
NPR now has a weblog of its own, titled Mixed Signals. Hooray!
An ambitious (and sort of halfway done) project, Vanished Libraries tracks what happened to libraries all over the world throughout history. Whether fires or politics did in the library, it's recorded here. This looks like it could be amazingly cool once the details are there!
Yahoo! has all sorts of neat little tricks behind the scenes, like their open shortcuts which let you abbreviate URLs or searches down to a few letters or words.
Everyone always needs more light when they read, but a lot of us hate fluorescent lights. For ambient lighting, Light Reading looks like an ordinary book during the day, but functions as a light when needed. How cool is this? You could make some really awesome light designs in a bookshelf!
Tomorrow: links from others!
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| Wednesday, March 08, 2006 |
Today, in the wake of the announcements about the Patriot Act and Tom Delay winning the primary and steroids in baseball and Iran promising "harm and pain," the links are all escapist in nature. I didn't really plan it that way, but my subconscious had other ideas, I suppose.
The Dans Le Noir restaurant, in which diners eat in pitch darkness, opened a London location a few weeks ago. I wonder if food tastes different when you can't see it.
If you'd like to check out London, or anywhere else, the Meet Me In site helps you figure out how to rendezvous with someone else coming from a different location.
Are stray shopping carts terrorizing your neighborhood? Fear not; just document them in the Stray Shopping Cart Project and then release them back into the wild!
If you ever wondered about the religious affiliations of various superheroes, supervillains, and extraneous comic book characters, wonder no more: an amazingly extensive list has been compiled for you! (Check out J. Jonah Jameson near the bottom. Hee.)
And lastly, a fantastic Lego Tarot. Please note that the Empress is a librarian! Woohoo!
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| Tuesday, March 07, 2006 |
Ahem.
SPLINK!
After seeing this, I'm just going to go around yelling "SPLINK!" at random. Consider yourselves warned. Bunny also reports that SPLINK was mentioned in an episode of The Young Ones, which made no sense to us Americans until now. The SPLINK bit, I mean, not the whole show. Although there were probably Americans who were completely confused by everything in the show.
Danny points out that Margaret Atwood's Unotchit, which I mentioned a while ago, is now the subject of an article by Wired. It's called the Longpen now. Or maybe it's the Unotchit Longpen. Anyway.
The concept behind PodBot is a cool one: put in your city and find out what concerts are taking place around you, and subscribe to the feed so you're always in the know. The execution, however, still needs a little work. According to PodBot's map, Cincinnati is up on Lake Erie where Cleveland used to be. I don't know where Cleveland went. Maybe Pittsburgh. At any rate, I got a whole slew of Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati concert listings, so while the geography is suspect, the engine itself is good.
Batgirl has a wonderful tribute to Kirby Puckett. It's a sad day for baseball fans.
If you like penguins, you will love the penguin webcam. A lone penguin wandered past while I was watching, but you never know what will happen!
And if you like pinball and/or Legos, here's something wonderful: a Lego pinball machine. Wow.
SPLINK!
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| Monday, March 06, 2006 |
The consensus online seems to be that the Oscars were pretty dull this year (except for the surprise Crash win). Any agreement/disagreement? I didn't watch them (I haven't even seen any of the nominated movies), so I'm curious.
Music:
- If you lived in Athens, Ohio during the '90s, you probably saw Tony Xenos perform at some point, whether it was with Cactus Pears, Rubberband Racecar Go, or on his own. Now he has his own website! I am stupidly excited to find out that I can get "Snowmen and Knit Hats" in mp3 form.
- The Washington Post has just discovered the art of the mix tape. Golly! (Well, okay, the article is actually about digital "imixes" and how people are tagging songs in order to create specialized playlists. But still.)
Art: Literature: Random fun: - Make a scarf out of sweater arms. I want to see one made of 1980s sweaters, like Bill Cosby's. It would look like a color blindness test, or one of those "spot the hidden image" 3-D posters!
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