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Monthly Archives October 2009

Friday Fun Link – Wordoid and Readability (Oct 2, 2009)

A double hit for the Friday Fun Link this week…Wordoid is a site that will generate realistic-looking but not-in-the-dictionary words.  (via Christian Bok's Twitter feed) Readability is a bookmarklet that will help convert web sites into something a lot more readable. 

Posted 03 October 2009 § FridayFunLink § Main Page § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Library Jargon Humour (and a blast from the past)

I was talking to a non-librarian who was in doing some training for a couple library staff members this morning.  We kept talking about our “Circ” department and she finally admitted, “Everytime you say that, I keep thinking of Cirque du Soleil!”  (That naturally made me wonder what the effect on customer service would be […]

Posted 02 October 2009 § Humour § Library § Main Page § Work ‡ Comments (0) °

Some Political Quick Hits: Szarka, Link, Chartier, and Enough Games From Harper and Ignatieff

When we went to Moose Jaw for Noah Evanchuk's nomination a couple weeks ago, someone mentioned that they hadn't seen a lot of politics on my blog recently.  I have no idea what I babbled as a response but the truth is that this blog was never meant to be a political outlet and that […]

Posted 01 October 2009 § Main Page § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) °