comics creators & bionic animals
Fanboy Rampage (one of my favorite comics blogs) links to this Top 10 List of Cutest Comics Creators . John Cassaday is a fine, fine, fine looking man, if you were wondering. Marc Singer reviews and collects some links about WE3 (I agree about the ending), which is a fine, fine, finely written and drawn [...]
wiki post evolution
This has been around for a little while, but it was New To Me, Watch the Heavy Metal Umlat page of the Wikipedia evolve, this is a screen cast, so you can hear commentary and see the page change.
upcoming manga from viz
At ALA I picked up a couple of advance copies of some manga that viz is going to be publishing in the next few months, Doubt! by Kaneyoshi Izumi (to be published 2/2/05) and Times Two by Shouko Akira. Doubt! is the story of Ai Maekawa, a nerdy girl in junior high. She’s about to [...]
we have wiki
And here it is — the Comics 4 Libraries Wiki. I installed Wikka Wiki this morning. I decided that I wanted to use php/mysql for the Wiki, I thought that would be the easiest thing to use for this project and also the Reference Manual Wiki I want to see about setting up for work. [...]
wiki wiki wiki
I think I need to learn more about wikis — partially for work because now that my department is using wordpress for a reference desk log, I think it might make sense to turn our reference desk manual (currently a giant binder) into a wiki. So I was thinking that I should come up with [...]
semantic web and folksonomy
Great post over at Burningbird, I think librarians should be keeping track of these issues.
Clover
I just finished reading the slightly obscure and sometimes hard to find Clamp series Clover. It came out several years ago, and I think some volumes may be out of print. I gradually accumulated all the volumes over a long period of tracking them down in several stores. The art is flipped, the books are [...]
category feeds!
I’ve known that wordpress supports category feeds, but I haven’t taken the time before now to actually figure out where they were. All you need to do is add a ?cat=# of category to the base url for any wordpress feed. So! If you only want to subscribe to the section where I talk about [...]
top 5 manga
Everyone else is doing it… my top 5 current manga titles 1. Legend of Basara. Post apocalyptic action adventure romance featuring star-crossed lovers, destiny, and cross-dressing. This is the title I most look forward to reading. 2. Hot Gimmick. Pure soap opera, this is my favorite teen romance title (along with Mars). 3. I’m going [...]
clive, bookworm, vendler
Clive Owen is Everywhere! {via} Battle with the Bookworm! Helen Vendler: GOOD OR EVIL???!!! Commentary over at the Chronicle. I’ve had a copy of The Music of What Happens sitting in my to-be-read book pile for a few years…
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