The Travelin' Librarian

I’m not kidding, this is the actual URL for a flash-based advert found in a online newspaper article I was reading this morning…

http://adserver.trb.com/ads/Network/lanceArm/dyn_pullback_300_250

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The Dalek Song is especially funny if you’ve seen all of the new season of Dr. Who. (If you’re not a Dr. Who fan, don’t bother, you’ll just find is anoying.)

Here’s an interesting story from the LA Times about things that are left behind at airport security.

Michael Stevens’ post Libraries and Technology: Threads of Conversation at ALA is both entertaining and enlightning. My favorite part is:

‘Stephen Abram touched on this as we had breakfast and made a brilliant point about cataloging: “Who else in the WORLD cares that a book a user wants is 17cm in size? Not the user…they just want the book!”‘

No there’s one to tiwst the collective knickers of catalogers all over the world.

This article: Google Print is the PATRIOT ACT on Steroids from the MobyLives blog, does help to show that both the PATRIOT ACT and Google Print are getting some press (granted, not good press) outside of the more traditional LIS-related media.

As if a song about Daleks wasn’t enough for one day, here’s a song about Google. (Not nearly as annoying as the Dalek song, Google fan or not.)

This directory of optical illusions and mind tricks was fun to play with. Some of them are classics while other I’d never seen before.