The National Film Board of Canada has put a bunch of their classic animated shorts online for free viewing. The Big Snit is required viewing for all Canadians.
“Incunabula or incunables are the very first examples of books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed with moveable type in Western Europe. They range from the very first examples of the two-column Latin Bible produced by Johann Gutenberg in the 1450s to works printed through the end of the year 1500. The term “incunable” derives from the […]
One of the great things about doing a weekly fun link targetted at librarians is that I can basically link to anything interesting I find since it’s all information and librarians tend to be interested in…information. This week’s link is one of this type – not directly related to libraries or librarians but very cool […]
Book Burro is a Firefox extension that adds quick & easy comparison shopping ability for all your book buying needs. (via Ubuntu Essentials)
This isn’t exactly a “fun” link but this photo has been making the rounds of various library blogs (not sure where I first saw it so I can’t give credit unfortunately) Here’s the photo. Flickr has a few others plus some discussion you might want to check out as well.
A Flickr photoset of the things a library volunteer finds on the book cart or stuffed in books in the prison where they volunteer: Jail finds – a photoset on Flickr (via Librarian.net)
Business Ethics magazine has released their list of 2006’s Top 100 Corporate Citizens. I’m not an expert in who’s good and who’s not so good but found a couple names on the list that were a bit surprising to me. (via Kottke) It’s also interesting to compare this list to Fortune’s recently released list of […]
The Baby Name Wizard tracks names of babies born in the United States over the past 100 years allowing you to see trends for names as they come in and out of fashion. (Warning: Very addictive!)
Ten Books To Feed The Imagination – includes the usual suspects such as Roald Dahl and J.K. Rowling but a couple surprises as well. (via The Guardian) Classmate of the Day: I reminded Holly that she had a “birthday” today when a group of us sent for supper this evening which ended up getting us […]
When I worked for the Writers Guild of Alberta, I posted a weekly link to a fun/informative/weird web site that was somehow connected to writers or books. (Based on that link, apparently they still think I work there!) Anyhow, I’ve been looking for a place to resurrect the FFL and my co-conspirators at Library Activist […]
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Posted 20 May 2006
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