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Twitter cartoon
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:14:43 GMT  
cartoon:twitter bird in real life


(via)

Odds and ends
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:11:42 GMT  
(todays drive-by break-time posting)

Is HTML the gateway drug?
http://cataloginglovely.wordpress.com/2010/07/28/is-html-the-gateway-drug/

National Library of Medicine Receives Grant to Digitize“Medical Heritage” Works Dating Back to 17th Century
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/07/28/national-library-of-medicine-receives-grant-to-digitize-medical-heritage-works-dating-back-to-17th-century/

library video: Masters of Library Science (croquet)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:10:47 GMT  
library video

(drive-by break-time posting)
I had this ready to post yesterday and then I forgot to.

87th Annual Masters of Library Science Croquet Tournament
video from New Hanover County Public Library
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td4S7dBuI1o

same people who did the Dewey Decimal rap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHiUQb5xg7A

Best weapons in the world!
Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:03:36 GMT  
(drive-by break-time posting)



(dont know where from, sorry. the guy who posted didnt remember what blog he got it from)

Yoghurt
Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:35:15 GMT  
Have now tried Greek style yoghurt.

Oh. So thats where yoghurt went!

This is the way I remember yoghurt tasting when I was a kid. Didnt like it then. Like it now.

That other stuff is good but there has always been something.. un-yoghurty... about it.

Yoghurt?
Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:55:52 GMT  
Hey, all

I need to eat yoghurt. A few years ago, I used to eat the Stonyfield yoghurt. This week, Ive been having Wallaby. What kind do you eat?

Mister Rogers defending PBS to the US Senate
Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:45:20 GMT  
Mister Rogers defending PBS to the US Senate, 1969.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXEuEUQIP3Q



(via flocked post, so no attribution)

Library video
Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:39:50 GMT  
Library video that is a spinoff of the Old Spice Guy videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ArIj236UHs

The last Old Spice Guy video
Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:43:13 GMT  
(drive-by tiny-break-time posting)

The last Old Spice Guy video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFDqvKtPgZo


also:
Old Spice voicemail generator
http://oldspicevoicemail.com/

Ghostbusters at the library
Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:47:24 GMT  
Speaking of videos... I somehow managed not to hear about this one when it came out in May.Ghostbusters at the library.

Lets eat peanut butter
Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:31:31 GMT  
You know those Old Spice Guyresponse videosthat startedcoming out yesterday(sidebar, starting with re:)? This morning,a librarian posted,"My mission today: to get the Old Spice guy to say something awesome about libraries."

Three hours later, Old Spice Guyobliged.

(Not at all library related, but see also his response to the question,""What would happen if you were in a room with a Pirate and a Ninja".

TomTom GPS: the Yoda and Darth Vader recording sessions
Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:00:41 GMT  
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/movie-talk-star-wars-gps.html

Soon, you can get the voice of Yoda, Darth Vader, or C3PO on your TomTom GPS. Scroll down for video of the Darth Vader and Yoda recording sessions. (Keep watching to the end.)

(via Steve Piziks)

P.S. You canget KITT to talk to you? If I ever get a TomTom, Ill have to seriously consider it.

Two for Aelfgyfu Mead
Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:42:10 GMT  
(drive-by break-time posting)

Two for Aelfgyfu Mead (and Im guessing at the spelling, so I hope I got it at least semi-right).

Oxford University to Create Online Anglo-Saxon Archive.

Coming Soon to Europeana: Digitised Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts.

http://bentleywg.livejournal.com/1323166.html
Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:28:59 GMT  
Wow! Hell of a game!

Looking for a vid
Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:57:12 GMT  
Im looking for a vid I saw several months ago (maybe right after the DVD came out?). It was Star Trek (movie), it had all the running scenes, and the music may have been Benny Hill but might have been some other frenetic piece of music.

Any ideas?

How to find everything there is to know about someone
Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:56:07 GMT  
(drive-by lunchtime posting)

Public Records Resources Online: How to Find Everything There Is to Know About"Mr. X".U.S. Department of Justice, Justice Libraries. May 11, 2010.
http://www.governmentinfopro.com/PublicRecordsGuide.pdf

+ Summary of public records on Mr. X…
+ His social security number is…
+ He was born / died…
+ He was married / divorced…
+ He lives / lived…
+ He owns / is licensed to drive…
+ He is a licensed…
+ His corporate affiliations…
+ Information about his companies / charities ..
+ His court records and filings…
+ His Web site / E-mail address…
+ He went to college…
+ Information about him in the News…
+ His voter registration&campaign contributions…
+ Information about him on the Web…
+ and more…

(viaResourceShelf) See link for more.

mirco dermal?
Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:02:16 GMT  
Would you trust a tattoo parlor that has a typo in its TV commercial?

Steampunk monkeys / Braille? / Fun with translation
Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:26:25 GMT  
Simian Portrait Coloring Book.
Steampunk monkey coloring book."Monkey Color! Coloring Book. This 8.5″ x 11″coloring book offers a collection of 24 monkey and ape portraits from both the Steampunk Monkey Nation and Society of Sinister Simians series."

Listening to Braille,by Rachel Aviv. New York Times, December 30, 2009.
The End of Braille?Interview with Rachel Aviv. On the Media. May 21, 2010.

E-mail error ends up on road sign
English:"No entry for heavy goods vehicles. Residential site only."
Welsh:"I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated."

http://bentleywg.livejournal.com/1320747.html
Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:13:12 GMT  
I wasnt allowed to watch Hawaii Five-0 when I was a kid. I think it was on too late or something. I G\got into the shows on syndication, in my early 20s, and now I watch it whenever I happen to be home on a weekday morning.

Here are theopening creditsfor the 2010 version. And heres a 3:44 minutepreview.

Doctor Who vid
Thu, 01 Jul 2010 01:09:24 GMT  
"The whole first season of Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor, IN two minutes, TO Offenbachs Can-Can."

SPOILERS, obviously.

Help finding a website?
Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:06:27 GMT  
Those"Keep Calm and Carry On"signs are making the rounds of the blogs again. I guess a bunch of new people just found out about them.

Anyway. Does anyoneremember how to find that website where you can write your own text on one of those signs? I need one for work.

(Shoot. I thought I had it on an icon.)

Doctor Who season 5 finale stuff
Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:29:50 GMT  


Wedding photo gallery(BBC site).

Timeline chart of the last two eps. Awesomeness.

Both viaMetafilter, where I found this greatcomment. I wish Id thought of it to pull on my DW-watching neighbors."The only other people I know who watch Doctor Who are my sister and her boyfriend. Since that second Silurian episode, weve both been pretending we have no idea who this Rory guy shes talking about is. She seems quite annoyed by it."

A-Team marathon (Chicago)
Sat, 12 Jun 2010 14:51:47 GMT  
MeToo has a seven-episode A-Team marathon today. It started at 9.

Google fun
Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:19:57 GMT  
Google.com

search for
World Cup

scroll to the bottom of the results page

NPR
Sun, 06 Jun 2010 00:29:32 GMT  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYREnvJ9WsE

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