Is there any other song to choose today, on Martin Luther King Day in the US and with the inauguration of Barack Obama happening tomorrow? (I don't know about you but I've got my PVR set to basically record CNN for 24 hours straight!)
This post on TechCrunch is showing up on most of the major link aggregators I visit (MetaFilter, Reddit, etc.) so I thought I'd post it here. Although libraries aren't Google by any stretch of the imagination, we do live in similar worlds so there's probably something to be learned from the discussion about how to […]
Wordie is a site that “lets you make lists of words and phrases. Words you love, words you hate, words on a given topic, whatever. Lists are visible to everyone but can be added to by just you, a group of friends, or anyone, as you wish.”
A visualization of all nouns in the English language arranged by semantic meaning.(via MetaFilter)
Steven Chabot, my colleague (and roomie) from the Canadian Library Human Resources Summit is looking into some of the reasons why men enter the profession. Anything related to gender and libraries is a personal interest of mine so I'll take a shot at helping him out (and I'd encourage you to do so too – […]
About a year ago, I got a “Claim of Copyright” notice for the montage video I made of photos around Pace's birth using the song “Tippy-Toeing” by Loretta Lynne. When I first read it, I thought the music label (Universal) was saying they were going to take down the video unless I could prove I […]
About once a month, give or take, RPL hosts an Education Institute presentation that staff members can attend. Today's session is Micheal Stephens giving his annual “Top Tech Trends” presentation and I was looking forward to it quite a bit. Unfortunately, both Shea and I got hit hard with the flu last night so instead, […]
I'm no fan of the techmo music but when Stephen Colbert demands that none of his viewers remix the interview after a visit from Lawrence Lessig, that's good enough for me! (I've got the first one I saw embedded below but there are a few others so far who've taken up the challenge as well.)
Last night, we watched Tim Burton's “Big Fish“. I barely remember hearing about this movie when it came out for some unknown reason. I only picked it up now because it was recommended a couple times in a thread I posted on AskMetafilter asking for suggestions of works about fathers and sons (a big theme […]
There are a few similar services out there but JustHearIt is one of the best I've seen for being able to instantly stream pretty much any song you type into it. (I'm picking fairly mainstream stuff for the most part so YMMV.)
