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Noted Pundit Matt Damon Weighs In On The Sarah Palin Choice

Pretty funny clip and Damon does mention the thing about her banning books so that's cool!  Oh, but if you've seen an e-mail flying around supposedly listing the books she tried to ban, that's false.  Too bad but if you look at the list, it basically looks like the ALA's “100 Most Challenged Books of […]

"Mo' Best" – Having Fun With Advanced Google Search Techniques

site:en.wikipedia.org “list of [most OR best]”(via Reddit)

Footloose – Doveman Cover Album

“When I was very young, my half-sister Jenny died tragically. She was a teenager, and it was the 80's. She left behind a wardrobe of brightly colored clothes, rainbow stickers, life-size paintings, doodles on lined paper, and hundreds of tapes. These constitute most of my memories of her. It's sad for me to look at […]

10 Tips For Surviving Your First Day of Work

I start my new job tomorrow and so it's the usual mix of nervousness and excitement today.  But to be honest, I'm more excited than nervous for this one and the biggest thing I'm worried about is whether I should take the bus or drive followed closely by “what should I take for lunch?” since […]

What Do Michael Moore and Radiohead Have In Common?

Besides that cutting edge sense of fashion of course?  Both are mainstream artists who have chosen to release their latest works online.  Moore's new movie, “Slacker Uprising” will be available for download on September 23.  It sounds more like a home movie/travelogue than one of his more full-formed commercial works but this is still pretty […]

Friday Fun Link – DIY Library (Sept 5, 2008) …and a question for the MacVangelists out there.

“A new library in Casanera, Colombia shows us what humankind might have built with sticks and stones if they'd never discovered bricks, steel, and electricity. The Villanueva Public Library was built on a modest budget, designed by a bunch of university students in Bogota. And instead of importing fancy, expensive materials, builders used local timber […]

Books I Have Out From the Library Right Now

There's a difference between lists of “Books I'm Reading” and “Books I Have Out From the Library”.  This is because I tend to take out a lot of books that sound interesting or I've heard about via various sources (Internet, magazine articles, friend recommendations, publisher catalogues) but usually only get around to reading a few […]

Privacy Is Dead – Get Over It

“Privacy is dead – get over it [part 2] is a talk by private investigator Steve Rambam. It's a talk he has been giving for a number of years where he shows how privacy is being taken away, not by sinister plots but because people are giving it away. With people putting up everything and […]

A Retraction

Earlier this week, I posted that John McCain had picked “sexy librarian” as his running mate.  (If we're going with librarian stereotypes, we should also mention that McCain personifies “Grumpy Old Man”, Obama is “Keener Weiner” and Biden is “that one city councilor who supports the library but probably never sets foot in the door”.)Anyhow, […]

Google's Browser Project, "Chrome"

Holy shit.  This is pretty exciting, the more I read about it (and a headline like “Meet Chrome, Google's Windows Killer” doesn't hurt either!)Although I have to admit that my first reaction was, “Why would I ever switch from Firefox?  I love Firefox.”  Time will tell.  I used to love Mozilla.  And I used to […]