For Jaime, the pug lover.

Pug sings Batman theme (via neotropic9)

Time-Lapse Twitter Visualization Shows America’s Moods



Go Go Gadget Information Scientists!

How many of your friends have you only spoken with online? If 40 percent of your personality has gotten lost in the text transition, do these people even really know you? The people who dislike you via text, on message boards or chatrooms or whatever, is it because you’re really incompatible? Or, is it because of the misunderstood 40 percent? And, what about the ones who like you?
7 Reasons the 21st Century is Making You Miserable | Cracked.com

Booktorrent! The Bookmobile as Rural Filesharing Network - The Awl

Swiss Army Librarian » Notes on Reading Resumes :: Brian Herzog

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 battles they’re often found fighting and the body-checking involved in their periodic struggles over sharing information, there’s a certain … pleasantly plucky quality to the current perception of libraries and librarians.
Why The Next Big Pop-Culture Wave After Cupcakes Might Be Libraries : NPR

The best video I’ve seen in a long time (give it 46 seconds).

Hot Chip - ‘I Feel Better’ (via PeterSerafinowicz)

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 President by Josh Lieb
  • I Am Not a Serial Killer by Dan Wells
    recommended by Lesley 
  • The Dreamer by Pam Muñoz Ryan 
    Children’s chapter book about Neruda’s childhood, fictionalized
  • Orlando (DVD)
    I cannot believe I’ve never seen it, because a) Tilda Swinton and b) a favorite book
  • The Baader Meinhof Complex (DVD)
  • Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
  • Citrus County by John Brandon
    the NYT review by Daniel Handler cinched this for me
  • Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
    and the Essay at the back of this weekend’s NYT Book Review by Shteyngart cinched THIS for me 
  • The Runaways (DVD)
  • Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality by Christopher Ryan
    Dan Savage is shilling this one - I’m curious
  • A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan 
  • The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman

Right now I’m finishing up Nancy Mitford’s “Madame de Pompadour” and then I’m going to re-skim “Complete Little Nemo in Slumberland” and watch “Windsor McKay: The Master Edition” in preparation for a blog post that’s been a’ percolating. Sky bought a mess of comics Zanadu last week, and I picked up McSweeney’s #34 today @ Elliot Bay. We’ve got some serious material pilings up in here.