There's a bit of a discussion about music choices happening in the comments of my recent Beautiful South post so, in the spirit of that great work of music-list making, High Fidelity I thought I'd bring one idea out to the front page in handy-dandy ready-meme format:Song that is “Your Song” for you and your […]
Sometimes, a hug is all what we need. Free hugs is a real life controversial story of Juan Mann, A man whos sole mission was to reach out and hug a stranger to brighten up their lives. In this age of social disconnectivity and lack of human contact, the effects of the Free Hugs campaign […]
This is all over the web today – I saw it on Boing Boing this morning and Metafilter tonight (which was cited as being found on Digg.) Here’s the Top 5: 1. Reclaim the term ‘hacker’. If you tinker with electronics, you are a hacker. If you use things in more ways than intended by […]
Flickr has a group dedicated to Librarian Trading Cards. You can create your own (and do lots of other cool things) with FD's Flickr tools.Here's mine:
Stealing a meme from my mentee's blog:Name five things that make you insanely happy for absolutely no fathomable reason: 1. Sticky notes (and office supply stores in general)2. Walking in the rain without an umbrella3. Spicy potatoes 4. Long Greyhound bus rides5. Crossing things off my To Do list (Of course, if I think about […]
It's not quite 3am (aka “bedtime”) so I'll do one more, based on a meme-thing I found on Kathleen's blog: 10 Favorites. —> Favorite Color: red. —> Favorite Food: pizza —> Favorite Band: Beatles —> Favorite Movie: lots but “Trainspotting” was the first to pop into my head —> Favorite Sport: to watch? Hockey —> […]
You can play too! If anybody reading this wants to be listed here with a look-a-like, just send me a mug shot of yourself that's at least 150 pixels high and some idea of where I might get a similar looking image of your celebrity look-a-like online. Of if you trust me enough, just […]
One of the first things our class did when we started was set-up a Yahoo! listserv so all us first termer's would have a way to easily communicate with each other without having to use official class lists (which aren't necessarily meant for that purpose anyhow.) So far the listserv has facilitated discussion of assignments, […]
On MetaFilter the other day, they had a post about a new feature on the Onion where celebs would put their I-Pods on shuffle then talk about the first 5 songs that came up. Most of them seem a bit tweaked (barely anyone came up with a mainstream song – all celebrities apparently only listen […]
