Over coffee this morning my wife called her dentist to make an appointment. At the end of the conversation I heard her say, “This is my home and cell number. My only one.” Then a pause and, “Sure, sending me a text message reminder is a great idea!” I think I’ll [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2008
bibliographic work at The Pirate Bay
25 Oct 08 – 8:00 am
If you haven’t done the academic research like I have :P The Pirate Bay is one of the biggest and best torrent search sites. You can find and download the torrents of a few libraries worth of movies, music and software using it.
I continue to be amazed and impressed by the [...]
HOWTO give a good presentation
23 Oct 08 – 8:45 pm
Over the past few days I’ve had a number of conversations with folks about presentation styles and abilities. David Lee King even suggested that someone give a presentation about giving presentations at a library conference. Until that happens I thought I’d post a list of my thoughts here. Please note that [...]
walking paper scraps
22 Oct 08 – 2:52 pm
→ Gr8 db8r takes on linguistic luddites
Language guru David Crystal tells John Crace that txt spk is responsible for neither bad spelling nor moral decay
→ Multicolr Search Lab Flickr Set
Search Flickr photos by color by selecting up to 10 colors.
walking paper scraps
17 Oct 08 – 8:02 am
→ Your library getting chilly this fall? Warm yourself up and reset your life with ctrl – alt – del tea cups.
→ In-game campaigning from Obama. From GigaOm:
Last week we noted unconfirmed sightings of an “Obama for President” billboard in the Xbox 360 racing game Burnout Paradise. Today we’re able to report [...]
help me haunt my library
15 Oct 08 – 12:58 pm
On AskMetafilter: Help me haunt my library in time for Halloween!
I’m a youth librarian at a small library, and this is my first big program since I started here in September. I am putting together a “haunted library” program for all ages, and want it to be impressively spooky.
I’ve done library Halloween parties before, but [...]
walking paper scraps
10 Oct 08 – 9:42 am
→ Planes fly into virtual doughnut
People flying virtual planes race meatspace pilots flying through virtual hoops.
→ Rules for Computing Happiness A few from the list:
Do not buy a desktop computer unless your daily computing needs include video/audio editing, 3D rendering, or some other hugely processor-intensive computing task. Buy a portable computer instead.
Do not [...]
Internet Librarian 2008
8 Oct 08 – 5:44 pm
It is the start of a beautiful Autumn here in Portland. The air is crisp, some leaves are falling, and the rain hasn’t yet arrived. If Autumn is here, that means Internet Librarian can’t be far behind.
I’m involved with a couple of things at the conference and I’m really excited about [...]
work like a patron day
7 Oct 08 – 3:13 pm
An absolute gem of an idea from Brian Herzog: Work Like a Patron Day
That’s why I’m proposing “Work Like A Patron Day” on October 15th. In honor of the day, I think library staff should (when possible):
enter and leave the library through the public entrance (not the staff doors)
use the public restrooms
use the public computers [...]
