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| Friday, July 28, 2006 |
Today: links from others and random goodness! Thanks, everyone.
From Bunny: a real-life zombie outbreak in Cambodia. Bunny, who takes zombies very seriously, is readying our defense weapons just in case.
From Courtney: Wax the Hoff. You have to see it to believe it, really.
From the Graveworm: Jack Kerouac's uncensored On the Road is on its way.
From the local paper: look out, delinquent book borrowers. The Campbell County Public Library is going to hunt you down like the dogs you are! (I know a bunch of people at CCPL. This should be interesting...)
Also from the local paper, for the Reds are playing the Brewers this weekend: a chorizo joins the sausage race in Milwaukee. (If you haven't seen the great sausage race, you're missing out. I'm still sad that the Brewers mascot doesn't slide into a huge mug of beer after home runs any longer.)
Sneeek is a deceptive game. It looks so easy...at first...
Have a spiffy weekend, everyone! See you Monday.
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| Thursday, July 27, 2006 |
Man, I hate it when Blogger hiccups and slams a bunch of my links together. I added the right info for Who Called Us to the last post; it got smushed in the morning process. There was some witty intro to the Every Stock Photo link as well; I fixed the link. (Just pretend it was witty.) Grrrr.
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ALA's slogan for next year's National Library Week is... "Come Together @ Your Library." Yes. Really. You can imagine the mock posters that have been made so far. (Here's one, although it's not terribly work-safe. Jessamyn has more, too!) What were they thinking?
It must be the week for holdouts to give in to the allure of Library Thing. We broke down and made an account the other day (there's not much there yet; we haven't tackled the home bookshelves), and we're not the only ones.
Moments before a researcher was to give his talk on how to find background information on someone, he got arrested for using illegal methods to find background information on someone. Whoops.
Wikipedia is all over the news these days. Here's a lengthy, scholarly approach, and here's the New Yorker's take.
A grassroots organization from people who are sick of telemarketers and other "number not available" weirdos, Who Called Us helps people track down just who it is on the other end of the line.
Every Stock Photo has oodles for the using. Neat stuff.
And finally, the moment of library zen comes to you from Hungary's Metropolitan Ervin Szabo Library in Budapest. (Psst, Holly -- if we go to Budapest, we have to stop by here.)
Tomorrow: links from others!
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| Wednesday, July 26, 2006 |
When I heard they were making a movie from Dante's Inferno, I was intrigued. Then I found out that it's going to be all live-action puppetry, and I was really interested. Now I've discovered that Paul Zaloom (aka Beakman of Beakman's World) is involved, and wow!
Today's required spooky link: a Barcelona company makes ecologically friendly, biodegradable urns. I especially like the tiny chest and the pyramid.
The round-the-world tour begins...now!
Jinnet @
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| Tuesday, July 25, 2006 |
Following up on yesterday's vintage drug ads: who knew 7-Up originally contained lithium? Between Coca-Cola and 7-Up, you had your uppers and downers within easy reach of the soda fountain back in the day...
Look out, Willy Wonka: a chocolate factory will be opening soon in Amsterdam.
For the fashion plates: you can buy (expensive!) Andy Warhol watches and learn, once and for all, how to tie a respectable Windsor knot. (The latter site also shows you many different ways to tie rope knots, and since it's animated you can actually follow along.)
The "By Kids, For Kids" invention site is very cool. Not only do they have a contest every year, but many inventions are truly useful (and at least one got its own patent and is being sold! Check out the Crayon Holder!).
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| Monday, July 24, 2006 |
Occasionally, a picture really is worth a thousand words, especially in political situations. Speaking of the conflict, as a counterpoint to the weblog from Beirut I linked to last week, here's a weblog from an Israeli bunker. I think that reading these sorts of accounts - from people who are living it every day - is probably the only way to get an idea of what's really happening there.
Cool photographer of the week: Thorsten Schimmel.
New York City denizens: Here's Your Copy tracks down the shows that you don't hear about but should go see (and I'm not linking to it just because I know the intrepid reporter behind the site, either).
Vintage ads are always great. Vintage ads for drugs can be truly amazing. "Thorazine can control the agitated, belligerent senile"! "Injectable whole opium"! Wow.
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