A few months ago I lost all four of those little black shoes they ship Dell laptops with - this is annoying, because the battery door in the middle bottom makes a foot-less lappy wobbly AND the battery doesn’t have the clearance it needs to cool effectively. The only real solution I’ve come up [...]

We paddled for miles
to this small island
and were walking the tidewrack
to shake out our legs.
We came upon a pale carcass, something fishy,
its skeleton pulled free of the skin,
turning it inside out,
attached only at the base of the spine,
and mangled beyond recognition.
It stank and flies rose off it.
I stepped back, repulsed,
and moved away, already done [...]

I’d like to begin this Christmas eve with sad news of the loss of Leslie Harpold. To me, Leslie was the creator of one of my favorite Web 2.0 holiday traditions: the online advent calendar. I’ve been devoted to her calendars for a number and years and was surprised when this year’s stopped [...]

Thanks to Art for his thoughtful comment on Dan Chudnov’s post last week. Art says it far better than I:
I really believe that humanity’s ability to share information and narratives is a large part of the metric for any progress in the future, and I think your vision would enable this in ways that [...]

Brian has a good post today about the endless debate about the roles of degreed versus non-degreed library workers:
…When I draw the line between

I’ve been reading, with interest, the conversations around the recent Mellon Award bestowed upon Casey Bisson and its possible implications for the landscape of bibliographic data. Tim’s been talking about it some, which is great. But the most substantive comment comes today from Dan Chudnov:
First off, the LC bibliographic data is not exactly [...]

October 1st, 2005, my grandmother, Mopper, died. Her loss affected me deeply and acutely and I still feel it today - I suppose I always will. I decided that day that in order to honor her integral presence in my life and preserve a personal link to my extended family on my mom’s [...]

Apparently, on the December 4 episode of Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Conan wrapped up a sketch on fetishes by inventing one himself: hornymanatee.com
Fearing repurcussions if the new web domain were to fall into the wrong hands, the network bought it.
By yesterday afternoon hornymanatee.com

I’ve been very into advent calendars since I was little. Maybe it’s because with a December first birthday, they always seemed made especially for me - linking the two best times of the year, birthday and Christmas. I never could quite get my mom to understand that an advent calendar is one of [...]

So begins today’s press release out of Plymouth State University and libraries and librarians, nay, ALL of our Granite State should walk a bit taller. One of our own, Casey Bisson was honored by the Mellon Foundation this afternoon with a MATC Award for his open source project, WPOPAC.

I feel some particular kinship [...]