Year: 2009

Friday Fun Link – Library Arcade (December 11, 2009)

The links are broken but I still have to post them because they sound pretty wild.   Apparently Carnegie Melon University developed a couple flash games a couple years

Castaway

Got the cast off today so I typed a big, long entry with various thoughts on the experience.  But Firefox crashed just as I was about to post

Oh-oh: Books of the Decade

Well, the noughties aren't quite over but that hasn't stopped various “Best of the Decade” lists from starting to appear including this one of the Top 50 Books

My iTunes Library Is My "Pending" List – I'll Pay Everybody Eventually…

…when I win the lottery or become a multi-billion dollar corporation, whichever comes first.  (And why is the Alanis song, “Ironic” an ear worm that just burrowed into

Music Monday – Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra

This is a bit outside my normal Music Monday posts but when I heard about this “orchestra” which plays music using only iPhone apps, I just had to

Gratitude: A Story of a Computer, Vomit and What It Means To Be A Parent

I linked to this from Facebook and posted it to Redit but thought I'd put it here for posterity as well since it's so good.  (And if I'm

Friday Fun Link – Send a Free Google Postcard (December 4, 2009)

To promote their Gmail service, Google is offering the chance for anyone to send a single free postcard to any US address, no strings attached.  Obviously being in

Library Routes Project: How Did You Become A Librarian?

A colleague and I recently facilitated a forum for the professional librarians at RPL.  The first question we asked as an ice breaker was “How did you you

Dauphin's Great Experiment: A Living Wage For All (in the 1970's )

I love ideas that are revolutionary: “Cheques were issued based on family size and income. That is, the minimum cheque would presume the recipient had no other source

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