What Technology Most Blows Your Mind?

A fun discussion on Reddit, even with 85% of the answers being computers, cell phones or airplanes. 😉“Reaching the Moon was certainly a highlight for our civilization, but

Music Monday – "You coulda had a heart of gold/But I don't think you even knew you had one/I don't think you were ever told."

This song always reminds me of one of my all-time Top Ten favourite movies “Stand By Me” – a young middle class type with an artistic bent writes

Whoo-hoo, I'm A College Man!

From the “How Dumb Am I?” files:  A couple of my toes have been a greyish shade of blue since I got my cast on a couple weeks

Saturday Snap – My Halloween Costume = Weston Dressler

Although his was the right fibula which is even worse!  I've been on crutches for the past two weeks so we decided to just hit a couple local

SirsiDynix Position Paper on Open Source and Stephen Abram's Response

The big scandals in libraries tend to happen out in front – somebody looking at porn, somebody else wants to censor a book, maybe a group trying to

Friday Fun Link – The Longest Poem in the World (October 30, 2009)

LongestPoemInTheWorld.com takes updates from Twitter's public feed to create a never-ending stream of rhyming couplets – strangely engrossing. 

Google Maps Navigation, Google Music Search and a Google View of the Internet in Five Years

This will possibly be the end of GPS companies such as Garmin and Tom Tom (their stocks have already plummeted since the announcement):Google also announced that soon, any

RPL Staff Conference Thoughts

We had our staff conference last Friday and after posting a photo of the empty ballroom when I arrived at 7:30am on Facebook, a colleague in BC asked

Too Tired To Type…Go Vote Tomorrow

Back from a 16 hour round-trip to Saskatoon for SILS training so heading to bed right quickly.  Just a quick reminder to go vote tomorrow!

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