This is a 7 minute video from the Aarhus Public Library in Denmark. It looks at what the future library may look like. (via ALA Direct newsletter. More info at: It's All Good)
Someone on the Hawksley Workman “Papershoes” message board re-posted a review of the Hawksley Workman concert we went to in London last May. Because I’m not a regular contributing member there, I think some of the commenters who had the impression I was a new Hawksley fan attending my first concert of his for some […]
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“Ann Seidl’s full-length feature documentary, The Hollywood Librarian: A Look at Librarians on Film, will premiere at the ALA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., on June 22. The film shows the realities of 21st-century librarianship, including stereotyping, censorship and intellectual freedom, and the impact of librarians on society.” How good does this film look? Wow. […]
Driving into pre-natal class tonight, I realised that we've spent more money commuting to the class in the last few weeks than we did actually registering for the class. Gasoline is still one of the cheapest liquids available for purchase but yet another recent jump in Regina (to $1.17 a litre I think) means that […]
We interrupt our regular tech/library/baby-related news for an agricultural report. Heard on the news tonight that it is the 100th Anniversary of Marquis Wheat, an early-maturing hybrid that is pretty much the entire reason that Saskatchewan is known as the bread basket of Canada. They're doing a bunch of special celebrations at the Experimental Farm […]
I was talking to a friend who refuses to join Facebook. They said that part of the reason they didn't want to join was how competitive it seemed: “I have 46 friends.” “I have 87 friends.” “I have 99 friends.” And what's the first line of my Feliciter article about Facebook? “I have exactly 159 […]
I'd seen this before but a friend sending it to me last week inspired me to get it up on the blog. It's a Flash video making some conspiracy theorist claims about Facebook – the people who run it having CIA ties, the abuse of its data-mining abilities and so on.I'm not sure what to […]
