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What Are The Top Academic Journals In Various Fields?

An AskMetaFilter thread which may be of particular use to those in academic libraries.  Nobody's posted the top Library Science journals and I can't remember the names of the ones that were supposed to be the tops in their field (though I do remember getting lectured by our 501 professor when he realised that most […]

Posted 01 February 2010 § Library ‡ Comments (0) °

Saturday Snap – Religious Indoctrination of Children Happens Early These Days

For instance, Pace is already a believer in the Flying Spaghetti Monster at the tender age of two and a half.  Oh, the horror! 

Posted 31 January 2010 § Humour § Pace § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – "Library" at WikiHow (January 30, 2010)

WikiHow is a site where anyone can add instructional guides on pretty much any topic you can think of.  There's lots of good information (in between the tons of Google ads) from How to Teach Yourself Piano to How To Treat A Snakebite – although the usual caveat about the guides being user-submitted and editable […]

Posted 30 January 2010 § Internet § Library ‡ Comments (0) °

Food Porn at Its Best

Tastespotting. 

Posted 28 January 2010 § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Apple iPad Officially Announced

Apple's newest product wasn't a huge secret – the majority of observers predicted some form of tablet computer.  So the speculation mainly centered around what form their tablet computer would take: like an iTouch but “better”?  Some sort of iPhone/netbook hybrid?  Something revolutionary with technologies we've never seen before?  (Touch on both sides of the […]

Posted 27 January 2010 § Internet ‡ Comments (0) °

The Invention of Lying – Mini-Review

We watched Ricky Gervais' “The Invention of Lying” tonight and it's a fairly subversive comedy in a thematic area that doesn't get a lot of attention from Hollywood.  The film's trailer made it look like a typical Hollywood gimmicky slug line = green light production.  You can imagine the pitch:  “It's like Jim Carrey's “Liar […]

Posted 27 January 2010 § Humour § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – "I'd have given anything/To have my own Pac-man game at home/I used to have to get a ride down to the arcade/Now I've got it on my phone."

I don't listen to as much country music as I did in my smalltown youth but this song caught my ear when I heard it.  I love how the first couple verses are just typical “I remember this, I remember that” cuteness but then the tone changes slightly leading to that whopper of a last […]

Posted 26 January 2010 § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Saturday Snap – The Future of Nascar?

Logos on the drivers as well as the cars?

Posted 24 January 2010 § Humour § Pace § Photo § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – What's the Dumbest Thing You've Ever Heard Somebody Say? (January 22, 2010)

Another very entertaining Ask.Reddit thread.  I heard a good one myself recently – one woman was talking to another woman and said “We're not Catholic, we're Christians.”  

Posted 23 January 2010 § FridayFunLink § Humour § List ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – "Why Don't You Read?" (January 22, 2010)

The Globe & Mail recently featured this catchy a capella cover of the song “Crazy” rewritten to discuss the woes of the print media world in the Internet age.  (H/T to Heather M.)

Posted 22 January 2010 § FridayFunLink § Video ‡ Comments (0) °