Someone on the Hawksley Workman “Papershoes” message board re-posted a review of the Hawksley Workman concert we went to in London last May. Because I’m not a regular contributing member there, I think some of the commenters who had the impression I was a new Hawksley fan attending my first concert of his for some […]
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Friday Fun Link – The Hollywood Librarian: A Documentary (May 11, 2007)
“Ann Seidl’s full-length feature documentary, The Hollywood Librarian: A Look at Librarians on Film, will premiere at the ALA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., on June 22. The film shows the realities of 21st-century librarianship, including stereotyping, censorship and intellectual freedom, and the impact of librarians on society.” How good does this film look? Wow. […]
Facebook's Dark Side (And Some Thoughts Why I Blog)
I'd seen this before but a friend sending it to me last week inspired me to get it up on the blog. It's a Flash video making some conspiracy theorist claims about Facebook – the people who run it having CIA ties, the abuse of its data-mining abilities and so on.I'm not sure what to […]
Time Lapse of the Wikipedia Article for the Virginia Tech Shooting
I'd seen something like this once before for some other news event (Saddam's hanging?) and, as I suspected, someone has one again created a time lapse of how the Wikipedia article for the VT shootings developed over its first 12 hours. Kinda interesting watching the article grow/change/mutate in a very organic fashion. Actually, that makes […]
Hump Day
Today was my first “hump day” in a long time so I'm really sorry to do this to you but…Our catalouging prof, the newly minted Dr. E. Davies, demostrated the principles of textual analysis using this song. Meanwhile, a teacher I know wouldn't allow it to be played at a high school dance. Such is […]
The Impact of Having a Librarian Doing Your Reader's Advisory…
Bush's wife is a librarian for anybody who doesn't know. (Now if she could just teach him to pronounce “eclectic”…)Oh, and I'm tagging this with “humour” but really, it's about as far from funny as it gets. I think it was better when Bush admitted that all he read was Sports Illustrated and summaries of […]
Myths of the Developing World
“With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, Hans Rosling debunks a few myths about the “developing” world. Rosling is professor of international health at Sweden’s world-renowned Karolinska Institute, and founder of Gapminder, a non-profit that brings vital global data to life. (Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 20:35) – More TEDTalks at http://www.ted.com” […]
Kiss Your Keyboard and Mouse Goodbye?
This is very possibly how you will interact with your computer in the near future. Wow.(Quinn, who has a great post today on why he blogs, found it funny that I equated the Flames 2004 run with other major milestones in my life such as graduation and marriage in my recent “About Me” post. So […]
Ring Those Phones!
It's Telemiracle Weekend in Saskatchewan. This is an annual telethon, run by the province's Kinsmen Clubs, that's been held for the past 31 years in the province and which holds the Guinness World Record for most money raised per capita by a particular province/state/region. Since the turn of this century, Saskatchewan's one million people have […]
FTRW 2007 – Day 6 – "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
As a bit of a follow-up to yesterday's FTRW post about an attempt to ban “Fahrenheit 451” in Texas last fall, here's an earlier essay by Ray Bradbury, on various attempts to censor his work over the years. In other news, my appearance on the “Book Chick” radio show a couple nights ago talking about […]