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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 […]

Posted 06 May 2007 § Blog § Censorship § Internet § Main Page § Video ‡ Comments (10) ° Also tagged:

So It Goes…

Where is home? I've wondered where home is, and I realized, it's not Mars or someplace like that, it's Indianapolis when I was nine years old. I had a brother and a sister, a cat and a dog, and a mother and a father and uncles and aunts. And there's no way I can get […]

Posted 13 April 2007 § Main Page § PopCulture ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged:

Is There A "Universal" Book – Some Follow-Up

It's funny – you do a post you think will get lots of responses and then, ..not really.  But then you do a bit of a throwaway post albeit on a fairly interesting hypothetical question and you get tons of thoughtful, passionate responses.  So inspired by Cenobyte who said she was going to pose that […]

Posted 17 March 2007 § Library § Main Page § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

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 […]

Posted 12 March 2007 § Humour § Main Page § Politics § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

"Perhaps You Will Become A Saint For A Child To Meet"

“A sappy woman sent me a letter a few years back. She knew I was sappy, too, which is to say a lifelong northern Democrat in the Franklin Delano Roosevelt mode, a friend of the working stiffs. She was about to have a baby, not mine, and wished to know if it was a bad […]

Posted 03 March 2007 § Baby § Main Page § Politics § PopCulture ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged:

The Myth of Prodigy and Why It Matters – Malcolm Gladwell

I was laying in bed last night trying to figure out what my blog is about now that I'm out of library school (which was 90% of my focus for the past year.) I came up with: 1. library-related stories2. technology developments 3. baby stuff …with a side helping of politics, Saskatchewan news bites and miscellanous […]

Posted 13 February 2007 § Baby § Library § Main Page ‡ Comments (6) ° Also tagged:

Alternatives to 'R" Rated Movies For A Business Ethics Course?

A professor teaching a business ethics course assigns certain films (“Thank You For Not Smoking”, “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room”, “Wall Street”) but has had a request for alternate films from a student who doesn't watch 'R' rated movies.  The professor posts a question on AskMetafilter looking for alternate selections but in addition […]

Posted 23 January 2007 § Censorship § Main Page ‡ Comments (6) ° Also tagged: