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Monthly Archives December 2008

Friday Fun Link – List Nirvana (Dec 19, 2008)

Fimoculous has been around for a few years, each year collecting more and more “Best of” year-end lists in a number of categories.  The book section is the obvious one of interest but there are many others that will allow you to browse away the hours of your Christmas holidays.(via MetaFilter)

Posted 20 December 2008 § FridayFunLink § Internet § List § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Shea's First Flickr Photo

Thought about posting a photo since I just got back from hockey and barely have the energy to do up a single-link, one line post, let alone write something original (although I thought about typing something about the unofficial “rules” of rec hockey since I've had a pretty good run lately – had a goalie […]

Posted 19 December 2008 § Canada § Main Page § Photo ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Politics IS The English Language – David Foster Wallace on English Usage

“Consider the Lobster” is one of four (how'd that happen?) books I currently have on the go (the others – “Convergence Culture”, one about contrarian management principles which I can't remember the title of – probably “Contrarian Management”, and buzz book of the moment, “Twilight”.)One of the essays in the first book on that list […]

Posted 18 December 2008 § Main Page § Politics § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Ocean Currents Could Power The World

The flip side of my interest in the idea of Peak Oil is stories like this one.

Posted 17 December 2008 § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – "I don't need to sell my soul/He's already in me"

Various Britpop bands are currently in various states of planning their reunion tours…

Posted 15 December 2008 § Main Page § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

I have no idea why my blog is being cited five times…

…but I'll probably order a copy to find out.  As someone in the comments points out, it's a great marketing strategy for a new book on library blogs – mention as many library-related blogs as possible in your book then list them in your index.  Put a sample of that index online making it likely […]

Posted 15 December 2008 § Blog § Library § Main Page ‡ Comments (4) °

Friday Fun Link – Click Survey (Dec 12, 2008)

Click anywhere on this piece of art then see where everyone else who's ever visited the site has clicked.  (I clicked just to the upper left of the middle woman's eyes for the record.)

Posted 13 December 2008 § FridayFunLink § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

A Few Tech Stories…

Firefox add-on allows pirates to take over AmazonFacebook being used to spread Koobface virus Facebook rolls out “browser within a browser” 75 Bleeding Edge Search Engines to Beat Google…and a lesson in how to make money on the Internet.  Create a site that does nothing but stream other people's content then load up every blank […]

Posted 12 December 2008 § Internet § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

The Daily Show Looks at the Canadian Political Crisis

Comedy Central in the US won't allow Canadians to watch their clips so if you want to be legal, you have to watch The Comedy Network version of this clip that is viewable by Canadians…or, like everything else, you can just watch it on YouTube.  Great system there, guys.  Way to go!

Posted 11 December 2008 § Canada § Humour § Main Page § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Spot The Customer Service

Tomorrow, I'm coordinating a customer service workshop for a few RPL employees (coordinating but not delivering – that will be handled by a very experienced, very awesome librarian we have on staff who has a lot more background in this area than do I.)I'm sure everyone has those elements of their job that they're ambivalent […]

Posted 10 December 2008 § Library § Main Page § Work ‡ Comments (0) °