A guide to YouTube videos featuring courses, lectures, conference presentations and so on from universities, private companies and other places.
Sometimes you come across a really cool song on YouTube that you know you'll never get via iTunes or even the P2P filesharing services. That's where Video2MP3.net comes in. Copy the YouTube URL into this site, hit enter and a few minutes later, there's a downloadable link to a 128kbps version of the song you […]
I knew taking a blog-holiday to go to Vegas could be a bad idea. I haven't posted for the last couple days which is a gap that I've only had a few times in the history of this blog – even if I miss the odd day, I very rarely miss two in a row. […]
Apparently they had cameras following me around in Vegas. Here's a clip from the upcoming documentary…
I'm not sure where I first heard the term “degree snob” but it was most memorably put to me in reference to a professional librarian who would literally not lower themself to speak to non-professional staff if it could be helped! With that as a jumping off point (and based on some of my […]
Reddit recently had a question posted asking their community to submit the most offensive joke(s) they knew. There's some pretty disturbing material here and if you doubt the power of the written word to affect people just as much as the visuals of pornography or the sound of foul language, look no further than this […]
Before the Internet, I probably would not have had access to Christopher Walken's techniques for roasting a chicken. My life is better for having this knowledge…
The title of this site is perhaps a bit misleading, especially for us library types. So I'll let the original poster on MetaFilter take it away… “DeweyMusic makes browsing archive.org's Live Music Archive super easy.”(For anybody who doesn't know about Archive.org, I'd suggest reading its Wikipedia page or watching a talk given by the site's […]
“The P22 Music Text Composition Generator allows any text to be converted into a musical composition. This composition is displayed in musical notation and simultaneously generated as a midi file. The P22 Music Composition Font was proposed in 1997 to the John Cage Trust as an accompaniment to the John Cage text font based on […]
This clip is only tangentially related to libraries but I thought it was funny…as is pretty much anything with Rowan Atkinson in it. (Also, I have no idea where I first came across this clip so apologies if I nicked it from you or your blog.)
