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Posted 22 June 2011 § Library § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Too Many Tabs Tuesday

“Men, Which Books or Movies Have Most Resonated With Your Inner Thoughts?”  (AskMF) MetaSkim – a new news site that attempts to provide targeted local news (MetaFilter) YouTube now has (some really old and/or unknown and/or direct-to-video type) movies for free Google Execs and other tech experts are attending a summit to discuss the future […]

Posted 21 June 2011 § Family § Library § Politics § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Friday Fun Link – Would You Pay For Search? How Much?

Researchers at the University of Michigan did an experiment to figure out how much Internet search was worth. They asked students to find answers to questions using the stacks (average time: 22 minutes) then using Google (average time: 7 minutes) then used the difference (15 minutes) and the average American wage ($22/hour) to determine that […]

Posted 17 June 2011 § FridayFunLink § Library ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

I Predict A Riot

With a few changes and additions, the following is what I posted on the MetaFilter thread discussing the riot after last night’s game… — I’ve heard a wide range of opinions (many mentioned in this thread) on why this particular riot happened… It was drunken Canucks fans. It was anarchists. It was gang members/hooligans/insurgents.  (I […]

Posted 16 June 2011 § Randomness § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , ,

Google Charges Its R&D Team With Making Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Conventional…

…”within a few years.” So frackin‘ cool if it’s true!

Posted 12 June 2011 § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Random Thoughts From WILU Day One

I’m at the Workshop for Instruction in Library Use (WILU) conference in Regina from today until Friday. Here are a few random thoughts from my first day… – it’s always enjoyable to attend a conference in a different city – staying in a hotel, eating meals in cool restaurants, checking out the attractions of a […]

Posted 01 June 2011 § Library § MemoryLane § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Five Not So Good Things About Librarians

Following up on yesterday’s post listing Five Good Things About Librarians, here are some generalizations about the weaknesses many librarians share… 1. Librarians are often extremely anal retentive What else would you expect from a profession which has the organization and classification of the world’s information as one of its core purposes? Part of this […]

Posted 25 May 2011 § Library ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Election Post-Mortem (Literally)

So I’ve had a couple days to let the election results sink in and I thought I’d do a few quick hits on various topics coming out of that history-making day.  As I posted on Facebook immediately after, it was real mixed emotions after the results were confirmed.  Elation.  And puking. Elation in that the […]

Posted 05 May 2011 § Politics § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: ,

A Couple Final Election Thoughts

When I watch sports, I tend to be someone who, when my team is down, thinks “there’s no way we can win!” and when they’re up, thinks “there’s no way we can lose!” rather than being somebody who knows that the momentum will go back and forth and anything can happen right up until the […]

Posted 01 May 2011 § Politics ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Angry Bairds

For the longest time, “Angry Birds” was the most popular game on the iPhone store and for the longest time, I resisted buying it because ninety-nine cents seemed like a lot to pay for something that looked like a silly kid’s game. 😉 But I finally broke down and bought it and though I don’t […]

Posted 29 April 2011 § FridayFunLink § Politics § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) °