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| Friday, April 28, 2006 |
Today: links from others. Thanks, everyone!
From the Graveworm: June 6 (aka 06/06/06) will be the National Day of Slayer. Now you've been warned and can prepare accordingly.
Also from the Graveworm: the amazingly cool world of 24th Century Interior Design! (Bunny will immediately want to redesign the house now. Thanks a lot, G-worm.)
From Danny: They Rule, an interactive site which shows you how all the big companies and their directors are interconnected. This is actually really useful for business research purposes, too!
Also from Danny: a spooky ooky site advertising the Zombie Survival Guide. Any connection between this link and the last one is purely coincidental.
And lastly, also from Danny: the judge for the Da Vinci Code trial in England put his own coded message into the verdict, which led to a flurry of cryptographic mania. Awesome.
Have a spiffy weekend, everyone! See you Monday.
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| Thursday, April 27, 2006 |
Today: libraries around the world, plus a few bonuses!
The British Library has decided to concentrate on resources from China and India. Since those two countries will probably be the next superpowers, that's a good strategic move.
In Italy, a designer has created the 'bibliochaise,' which can store dozens of books. Other parts of the site are just as cool, like the "pop" option for their bookshelves which are meant to display illustrated bookcovers properly.
Imagine a library constructed from discarded airline jet fuselages. It could happen in Guadalajara!
Meanwhile, back home in the land of the free, the National Archives is expressing shock and outrage over its recent re-classifying of declassified documents. Riight.
From another planet entirely, yet still in your own backyard: how much do I love the Secret Library Workers Union?
For the poetically minded: write a haiku about a cryptozoological or slightly obscure animal, and win a book! Even the Beastie Boys are participating.
Finally, a handy reference guide to those of us who have to drive places: GasBuddy shows you the cheapest and most expensive gas stations in town. Cincinnatians, stay away from Clifton; right now gas is $2.99 there!
Tomorrow: lots of cool links from others!
Jinnet @
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| Wednesday, April 26, 2006 |
It was twenty years ago that Chernobyl became known worldwide. Recent photos are still heartbreaking. The wildlife is taking over, however, and is actually thriving.
On a more cheerful (?) note, it's also Pretzel Day. Feel free to send some to Washington!
An Ecuadorean shaman is in Germany to perform spirit-banishing rituals before the World Cup. Sadly, he has no hooligan-banishing rituals in his repetoire.
Time Magazine profiled the spooky Opus Dei, and de-spookified it a bit. Members really do wear that ring of spikes around their legs, though. Eeep.
Remember the Kryptos sculpture by CIA headquarters which was confounding the code-breakers? Well, er, the sculptor may have made a slight mistake. Oops.
Lastly, for people who are not all that interested in spooky or strange things and just want to get outside and walk around: Shakespeare's Way is a brand new trek of 146 miles which takes you past various important places in the playwright's life. You could even recite all the sonnets as you walk.
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| Tuesday, April 25, 2006 |
We've been busy putting together a new episode of Meet Cleaver Theatre which is information-heavy, so I've been compiling all sorts of trivia. One bit is about Laika, the first dog in space, and it turns out there were many other (luckier) cute canine cosmonauts. (Some of you will also remember Bunny's minor freakout on our flight to the Internet Librarian conference, where he was convinced that the airline attendant's name was Laika and it was a bad omen.)
More animal fun: did you know that there was almost a Paleozoic Park in Central Park? (And wouldn't it have been cool?)
In quirky consumer goods news, there are some truly awesome cufflink options out there these days. (The "thermometer" section is especially interesting.) And for those of us who remember 5 1/4" floppy disks, Acorn Studios sells notebooks with the disks as covers. There are also circuitboard mousepads, and more!
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| Monday, April 24, 2006 |
Today's discussion points: art, music, and writing.
Art: Google got in trouble for showcasing Miro's work in their logo last week. Apparently they got in the same predicament when honoring Dali. Man, it's hard to deal with copyright these days.
More art: Did you know Dale Chihuly has an eyepatch? As a result, he has no depth perception any more, so others do the glassblowing. And he's dealing with bipolar disorder. I had no idea.
Classical music: Was it Bach's wife, rather than Bach himself, who wrote some of his best works?
Modern music: Do Southerners make better pop singers?
Writing: For any girl who's ever been twelve, your take on what happened then is requested. The "When I Was Twelve" project asks for your stories. (I don't know if there's an equivalent project for boys in the works.) I think I've repressed most of my memories as a 12-year-old, myself.
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