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"I Am *Not* Impressed!"

Posted 16 August 2007 § Baby § Photo ‡ Comments (0) °

Truth In Number: The Wikipedia Story (Trailer)

This looks pretty wicked…

Posted 15 August 2007 § Internet § Video ‡ Comments (1) °

Google Gets Healthy, Rate My MD

Google is apparently setting up a health site. Google Health Screenshots are now available online.  On a related note, I've talked about RateMyProfessors.com on this blog before but have you seen RateMDs.com which is similar except when somebody gets a 0 rating, that usually means they've killed somebody or otherwise, majorly screwed up.   Kinda […]

Posted 14 August 2007 § Internet ‡ Comments (0) °

Crackbook Musings

Shea was rapidly catching up to me so I've spent the last couple hours ping-ponging from person to person's friend lists on Facebook madly adding people I know (and knew and wish I knew).  Here are some random thoughts from the process…– In “The Tipping Point“, Malcolm Gladwell uses the term “Connector” to define one […]

Posted 12 August 2007 § Internet ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged:

If It's Saturday, It Must Be A Link Dump (Plus A Bonus Sex Story)

I just had it brought to my attention that Bloglines isn't reading my feed (and hasn't since July 18 – wow, my birthday post helped knock out part of the Internet!).  If you subscribe to this blog via Bloglines, hopefully you've realised this and are checking in directly or reading this via another RSS reader […]

Posted 12 August 2007 § Internet § Library § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – "I Swear" (August 10, 2007)

How Swearing Works BBC’s List of Most Offensive Words (in ranked order) Urban Dictionary – a user-created dictionary of slang including many offensive terms. Great for understanding the latest teen slang. The Great Internet Swearword Project – picking between two choices helps define the “best swear words in the world“. Learn To Swear in any […]

Posted 11 August 2007 § Censorship § FridayFunLink § Humour § List ‡ Comments (0) °

Every Librarian's Secret Fantasy (Er, Not That Kind of Fantasy)

We did a day trip across the border to Williston, North Dakota on Wednesday (it's a long story as to why we had to go mid-week, I'll tell you over a beer sometime) and the highlight for me was finding an old department store that had been converted into a place that sold all kinds […]

Posted 10 August 2007 § Library § Photo § PopCulture § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Advice From An (Almost) Librarian

The end of the semester at FIMS looms and for various students, the end of the program is near as well.  On that note, Michelle L. has a list of Library School Advice from an Almost Librarian that's worth checking out.   Congrats also to Barb Janicek who won the Spirit of Librarianship Award for […]

Posted 09 August 2007 § LibrarySchool ‡ Comments (6) °

TinyURL Explorer

TinyURL is a useful site that helps convert some of those mega-long URL's that some web sites give to their pages into something that's way more manageable.  The site doesn't re-use their shortened versions and doesn't delete them (although some you click on may be expired at the source) so naturally, somebody has come up […]

Posted 08 August 2007 § Internet ‡ Comments (0) °

Bailin' Again – Fred Eaglesmith

“Bailing Again” – Fred Eaglesmith I'm standin' on the corner of a pair of country roadsI am carvin' out my daddy's name on a little stoneAnd though I couldn't always talk to him, but if was here todayI think I'd know exactly what to sayCHORUS:I'd say the weather's been hotThe hay is almost inAnd if […]

Posted 06 August 2007 § Baby § Photo § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: