Monthly Archives: April 2009

a short history of internet scare stories

2004: “Your children are being solicited in chatrooms!”
Meanwhile, adults start using IM at work and IM scare stories go away.
Then,
2006: “Your children are being solicited on MySpace!”
Meanwhile, people over 35 join Facebook en masse and social networking site scare stories go away.
Then,
2009:

The cycle continues!

prada transformer opens

Last week a very interesting building opened up in Seoul.

The temporary structure, a project from the Office for Metropolitan Architecture/Rem Koolhaas (famous/infamous in the library world as the force behind Seattle Public Library), can be lifted with three cranes and rearranged to rest on different sides for different purposes. Events [...]

New Creating Future Libraries Notebooks Coming Soon

Immediately after the first run of Creating the Future for Libraries notebooks were released and sold out I started taking orders for the next batch. I had an idea of what I wanted to do for the second version but it took me a few attempts to be happy with the design. [...]

Mikado Bookshelfs

Ok, not for your entire collection, but for a special display?

I love one of the comments on the original post
The author never had books. It looks good, stylish, but absolutely useless. It’s hard to keep books vertically even on horizontal regular bookshelf. This one will make you curse
 
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creating a user centered organization

From Good Experience:
Wawa is a much-loved chain of friendly, well-run convenience stores on the east coast. They’re particularly well known for their coffee… less known is the story of their first cup:
Russo was general manager of the Aston Township store, the second Wawa, 35 years ago, and one day he brought in a 30-cup percolator [...]