July 2010
39 posts
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“Library cards are about as prevalent as credit cards. Two-thirds of Americans...”
– OCLC’s How Libraries Stack Up: 2010 (get PDF report using links in right “Downloads” menu)
Old Spice Sales Double With YouTube Campaign →
Hot damn.
infoneer-pulse:
You know those YouTube videos with that manly Old Spice guy and his hilarious responses to Twitter fans? Of course you do. So does everybody, it seems, because Old Spice body wash sales have increased 107% in the past month thanks to that social media marketing campaign.
» via Mashable
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New(ish) blog, "From the Bitch Library" →
From the Bitch Library will be used to explore the relationship between libraries and feminism, to profile radical and alternative libraries across the globe, to highlight Bitch library happenings, and to review books and zines that are new to our collection
Libraries Loan More Movies than Netflix -... →
ahniwa:
Libraries loan out more DVDs then Netflix? Woot! (Now if only they had a “watch instantly” option …)
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Tofu Burgers Recipe - 101 Cookbooks →
To make sometime this week…
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Time-Lapse Twitter Visualization Shows America’s... →
Go Go Gadget Information Scientists!
“How many of your friends have you only spoken with online? If 40 percent of your...”
– 7 Reasons the 21st Century is Making You Miserable | Cracked.com
Booktorrent! The Bookmobile as Rural Filesharing... →
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Swiss Army Librarian » Notes on Reading Resumes ::... →
Filed away for further reference (and hoping I won’t need it any time soon)
ahniwa:
A well-considered post on the does and donts of resume-writing for library positions (and everyone else).
“Libraries get in fights. Everybody likes a scrapper, and between the funding...”
– Why The Next Big Pop-Culture Wave After Cupcakes Might Be Libraries : NPR
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My holds queue
Uptown Saturday Night (DVD) w/ Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor; patron recommended
Metropolitan (DVD) been meaning to see this for forever, Leah of The Full Nilson reminded me
BodyWorld by Dash Shaw read about in NYT Books; comic
The Carol Burnett Show: Let’s Bump up the Lights! (DVD)
Blood on the Flat Track (DVD)
I Am a Genius of Unspeaking Evil and I Want to Be Your Class...
Mystery trader buys all Europe's cocoa - Telegraph →
Intrigue! Mystery! Someone is buying all of the chocolate in Europe!
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10 weird places your data gets stored →
infoneer-pulse:
Cloud computing doesn’t really mean storing your data in a cloud: it means your stuff’s been stuck on a server in an enormous temperature-controlled room somewhere.
That doesn’t mean it has to be in a boring building, though: it could be down a mine, in something that looks like Dr Evil’s control centre or even off the coast of Suffolk.
Here are 10 weird places that data can...
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Accepting That Good Parents May Plant Bad Seeds -... →
Interesting article on the present state of Nature vs. Nurture — plus it makes me want to rewatch The Bad Seed.
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“All flags half mast!
I’m calling in sick
With all honesty,
To reread...”
– Brice, commentor from San Francisco, in response to “Harvey Pekar, Who Chronicled Ordinary Lives in ‘American Splendor’ Comics, Dies”
Nicole Brodeur | A Pearl of wisdom: select her →
Paul Constant (and now Nicole Bordeur) calls for appointing Nancy Pearl to the empty seat of The Seattle Public Library Board.
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“Have you ever wondered about the secrets in life that are so tricky that you can...”
– Commentor Tenochtitlan, in a response to Seattle libraries: Raise taxes to keep them going?
Submit your chair to the VIA Baxter Library Chair... →
GIVE US YOUR CHAIRS!
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It's raining boobs
Once you’ve heard a song lyric one way, there’s no going back. This morning’s example:
Here comes the rain again falling on my head like a mammary
Sorry, Annie Lennox. What’s done is done.
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101 Cookbooks: Buttermilk Squash Soup →
I’m not making this tonight, because I’ve already got yummy plans, but maybe tomorrow? Heidi has the best recipes. If you ever see a copy of Cook 1.0 languishing in a used book store, PICK IT UP! It’s a) amazing and b) out of print (lucky me, a friend sent me a copy when it first came out).
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“I go to Seattle for the American Apparel, Urban Outfitters and H&M. My Mom...”
– Tweet from Colleen922 (Colleen McLoughlin), found on one of my semi-regular trawls of Collecta, looking for library related dish
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“Books are the backbone of culture. Our elders and poor aren’t downloading...”
– Randy Susan Meyers, It Takes a City to Raze a Library
From the Bitch Library: Outing the Father of... →
Ah, Melvil. This is why I make a stink face when people’s only reaction to my profession is a joke about Melvil Dewey - he was kind of a dick.
“The internet’s completely over. I don’t see why I should give my new music to...”
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Prince, speaking to The Daily Mirror about his woes over music distribution in 2010. I am fairly certain he wasn’t joking.
(via chartier) (via infoneer-pulse)
Chicago Public Library Commissioner Reacts to FOX... →
Suck it, Trebek.
(via ahniwa)
June 2010
29 posts
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Signal to noise
I love using and reading tumblr; I loathe twitter.
How do you feel about the two?
Discuss.
“Maybe sometime you should take off your black turtleneck, stop compulsively...”
– Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: I’m Comic Sans, Asshole.
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Kayak's "Explore" feature →
Way cool - you can set your budget and the feature tells you where you can go for that amount.
McGinn proposes cuts to police, parks, libraries →
I’m still not sure why “human services” doesn’t include the Library, but whatever.
“On the negative side, there is the wedding night, during which the bride must...”
– Instruction and Advice for the Young Bride (via ahniwa)
BBC News - Violence against women is justified,... →
Ouch. Literally.
New ad doubles as fashion mag dumping ground →
A rubbish can ad against bad women’s magazines with unhealthy models in them… Kind of rad, right?
“You have but to take a peek in the comments section below this column, any...”
– “Why are you so terribly disappointing?” by Mark Morford (January 29, 2010)
Website Editors Strive To Rein In Nasty Comments :... →
How are websites dealing with the wide swath of teeming, cranky commentary on news websites and blogs? It reminds me of a quotation from a great Mark Morford article, which I must now go hunt down…