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Monthly Archives April 2010

Why Men Don't Read: How Publishing Is Alienating Half the Population

Here's a good article poking holes in the fallacy that only women read.  It's actually a bit of a chicken and the egg thing – do only women read because publishers only produce books targeted at women because those are the ones that have been the most successful in the past?    This is probably true […]

Posted 29 April 2010 § Library § Main Page § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

The Crowdsourced Library?

I recently gave kudos to the book “Crowdsourcing” which I'd just finished reading.  You know a book's a good one when you're still thinking about it a few days later and you know it's a great one when you keep thinking of ways its lessons might apply in your everyday life beyond that.  Very briefly, […]

Posted 28 April 2010 § Library § Main Page § PopCulture § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – You've got a new horizon/It's ephemeral style/A melancholy town/Where we never smile.

Posted 26 April 2010 § Main Page § MusicMonday § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

The Ultimate Chill-Out Vibe On A Crappy Sunday Morning When You're Trapped Inside…

Open this page in one tab.  Open this page in another tab.  Enjoy!  (via Reddit)

Posted 25 April 2010 § Main Page § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Saturday Snap – iDrool

Our Deputy Director was in Chicago for a conference recently and brought home a really nice souvenir! Shea's jealous that I got to play around with this as she wants an iPad more than I do.  In reality, I've got mixed feelings about the device.  I love my iPhone and though it's not perfect a […]

Posted 25 April 2010 § Internet § Main Page § SaturdaySnap § Technology ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – 4% of Librarians Are Virgins But 7% Have Had More Than 20 Sexual Partners In Their Lives (April 23, 2010)

Recently, a 1992 study of sex and libraries was published online having originally been published without much initial fanfare but then quickly leading to the firing of the columnist who published it.   Lots of interesting tidbits.  I thought about listing what my answers would be but nobody needs to know which Shakespeare play my first […]

Posted 24 April 2010 § Censorship § FridayFunLink § Library § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

All Day I Continually Think of Things I Should Blog About…

…then I get home and frequently forget about all of them.  Good-night Gracie! 

Posted 23 April 2010 § Blog § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Parody Is Not An Infrigement of Copyright (Watch It While You Can)

I wrote about this meme before.  Turns out that a couple years after these parodies gave their German-language art house film some international attention, the people who made the movie have decided that the single scene used for all these parodies is an “infringement” of their work.  Well, they say that dinosaurs had small brains […]

Posted 22 April 2010 § Censorship § Humour § Internet § Library § Main Page § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

The Masks We Wear – Jeff McBride

My mom and dad had tickets to a magic show featuring Jeff McBride, courtesy their Investors Group rep so invited Shea and I along.  Not your typical Tuesday night in Regina!

Posted 21 April 2010 § Main Page § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – "I'm a losing lately gambler/But that's not all I've ever been/Cutting back your losses/Is just another way to win."

Posted 20 April 2010 § Main Page § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) °