I got 12/16 and once I saw the four I missed, realised I probably should've got 16/16. If you want a hint, mouseover the following text…the site fills in the titles automatically as you guess correctly so picking names of classic novels at random is a good way to cheat…and for the record, I didn't […]
Print-on-demand web site, Lulu.com has a service that helps project how well your book will do based solely on its title. The algorithm was developed exclusively for Lulu by statisticians who studied 50 years' worth of bestseller data encompassing over 700 titles from 1954 to 2004. They compared the attributes of these titles against a […]
John Hodgman roasts Barack Obama at the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner while trying to decide if the new President is a nerd or a jock (and including a subtle message that perhaps the expectations for Obama were set too high?).
Someone posted a very meta question on AskMetaFilter recently, namely, “what's the best thing you've ever seen on here?“. The person was asking the question in terms of best advice for a young person just starting out in life but the thread sort of became a place to add links to some of the best […]
The MyHeritage Look-a-Like Meter is pretty fun. Pace apparently looks 11% more like Shea than me though to be fair, they have similar facial expressions in the picture I use, neither of them are wearing glasses while I am and of course, neither Pace nor his mother have a beard either!
I know I've been neglecting lots of things on this blog with all the political posts the past few months and the Friday Fun Link is one that I've felt most guilty about. Therefore, this week I'm going to do a pre-FFL, a real FFL and a post-FFL – lucky you! To start, Karaoke Machine […]
You've heard of TinyURL, now try Dickens Link which converts long URL's to Charles Dickens quotes.
Ask MetaFilter and MetaFilter are both good places to find threads about libraries since so many librarians hang out there. (I've linked to the pages for each site's entries that have been tagged with “library” but feel free to try variations such as “libraries”, “librarian”, “book”, etc.)Here are a couple recent AskMetaFilter threads that were […]
Serendipity can be a wonderful thing. Every morning, I meet for a brief staff meeting with my colleagues in my unit at the library. Since the office where we meet is right by the DVD collection, I usually take a moment to peruse the day's offerings. Today, I happened upon a copy of “Prairie Giant: […]
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