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Kiva Update

Last May for Mother's Day I set up a Kiva account for Shea from Pace and put $100 in it.  Now almost a year later, our initial loans

Friday Fun Link – Watch Christopher Walken Roast A Chicken (Feb 13, 2009)

Before the Internet, I probably would not have had access to Christopher Walken's techniques for roasting a chicken.  My life is better for having this knowledge…                     

Music Monday – "Past old crooked dykes/Through Yorkshire's green fields/We were flung into dance/As the train jigged and reeled" – February 9, 2009

If I had to pick a single song to define my time as an undergrad, it would likely be this one.  The song only took on more relevance

Music Monday – "Summertime, I think it was June/Yeah, I think it was June." – January 26, 2009

I posted this song a couple years ago, long before I started my “Music Monday” theme posts.  But it's such a good song, especially when it's cold as

Friday Fun Link – "It's all got to do with the library…we've had boys taking out books without library cards…[so] I administerd a fatal beating in which your son died."

This clip is only tangentially related to libraries but I thought it was funny…as is pretty much anything with Rowan Atkinson in it.  (Also, I have no idea

TechCrunch "CrunchPad"

Technology site TechCrunch is expanding beyond being one of the best sources for news about Web 2.0-type companies and have been driving development of an inexpensive, touchpad computer

YouTube Now Muting Videos Which Use Unauthorized Copyrighted Music

About a year ago, I got a “Claim of Copyright” notice for the montage video I made of photos around Pace's birth using the song “Tippy-Toeing” by Loretta

Music Monday – "I'll be very angry/And possibly litigious…with a great dance beat."

I'm no fan of the techmo music but when Stephen Colbert demands that none of his viewers remix the interview after a visit from Lawrence Lessig, that's good

A Digital Library, Free to the World

Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, gives a TED talk on his vision of a digitized future…

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