I was playing around with del.icio.us some more today. Some things that struck me–
It brings the whole process of making a bookmark up a level. I often bookmark things, but I don’t always take the time to sort and categorize them. I think this is partly because the way bookmarking or favorites are displayed when […]

So I’ve been playing around with the collaborative bookmark management system del.icio.us, I’d heard of it but when Greg and Steve started raving about it I decided to actually take the step of checking it out. I am a follower, not a leader. Those guys are like the library blogging Kirk and Spock and I […]

I do regret that since he is dead, I can’t vote for Frank Zappa for president.
I can’t vote for Lex Luthor, since he is evil, fictional, and already won.
The First President of Japan probably doesn’t fulfill that pesky “born in the USA” rule. And is also fictional, as is Wesley Crusher.
If I wanted to vote […]

The Dig Ref listserv debates the use of “dawg” in virtual reference transactions. Here’s a good example of a transcript of a librarian doing virtual reference who is comfortable dealing with someone who uses a ton of slang.
Monitoring an academic queue gets me fewer opportunities to provide virtual reference to users who type “yo!” every […]

Cerebus R.I.P, overview of the series from a fan who actually stuck with it, via Unqualified Offerings
And here’s another overview, Cerebus:An Aardvark on the Edge

Early morning committee meetings are the work of the devil. Who has to meet at 8? Couldn’t one person meet at 8 and decide everything? Why force anyone else to do anything at such an early hour? I just woke up and I’m already looking forward to a nap. Maybe I can nap during the […]

Classes started today, so at the reference desk I got to experience the influx of students expecting that the library would have copies of their textbook available for someone to check out. Also I had someone wanting an official time estimate on their research project involving 40 things that they needed to look up on […]

I have found my RSS reader of choice and it is feed demon. It is just so easy to use, and I love the “auto discover” feature that keeps track of the feeds of some of the sites I visit as I’m browsing around, so I have a list I can go back to add […]

Neil Gaiman is hosting an mp3 of Alan Moore’s song “March of the Sinister Ducks.” There are no words.

So I finally saw battle royale (the first movie not the sequel), and it made me wonder what on earth I was doing in high school English class, debating the symbolism of the conch shell in Lord of the Flies, when I could have just watched battle royale instead. I learned the valuable lesson that […]