I’m not sure why gmail is starting to display little links above my e-mail, but wasn’t it nice of them to offer a recipe for spam as I was emptying out my spam folder?

Anime News Network posted this link to an article from Sunrise about the process of making anime.
ICV2 talks to Viz VP
Yet Another Comics Blog Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Drive
What Not to Crochet
Fugly Bags

The RSSWeblog posted about protopage, a web site that can collect bookmarks, RSS feeds, links, and to do lists. Here’s my page, which doesn’t have a ton of content. The newsfeeds function does seem to be down right now.

I really enjoy my library’s small but growing leisure reading collection. Plenty of college and university libraries have sections for fun books or best sellers, but this is a fairly recent development where I work. I think that every academic library should attempt to make a bit of space for fun books. I realize that [...]

The final issue of animefringe has reviews of two of the anime series I’m enjoying right now, Samurai Seven, and Paradise Kiss
Rightstuf is running a very brief 33% off Tokyopop merchandise sale. The sale is over on the 7th.

The Dreaming by Queenie Chan (amazon)
Twin sisters Amber and Jeanie are sent to an isolated boarding school deep in the Australian bushlands. Their aunt is the headmistress of the school, but she leaves for a trip after warning the girls not to reveal that they are twins to the vice principal. Rumors of missing [...]

I’m still trying to grasp all this web 2.0 stuff. Here are some links I’ve collected:
Adaptive path: Ajax essay
What is Web 2.0 There’s a big concept map.
Web 2.What? (the last quote in the article by the creator of del.icio.us is great).
This map (pdf) features both a timeline and a concept map. It is also very [...]

Visit Love Manga often this month for their advent calender manga giveaway. The Day 1 giveaway is an excellent title by Clamp.

Books
Watch Your Mouth by Daniel Handler - If you want a book written by Daniel Handler aka Lemony Snicket that features a ton of incest and a golem, this is the book for you. After reading it though, I realized that I didn’t want to read a book like that.
Harry Potter and the Goblet [...]

I do think the technologies people talk about when they talk about library 2.0 (blogs, wikis, social software, instant messaging) are quite nifty, but sometimes I wonder about the terminology librarians rush to adopt. Someone comes up with web 2.0, so we must have Library 2.0, because it sounds all 2.0ish! Would any library user [...]