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January 29, 2010
Category: acad lib future
I couldn't agree more with Bonnie Swoger's sentiment that academic librarians need to stop going to library conferences, although I perhaps might not go that far. In any case, the last couple of weeks have been pretty fallow blogging weeks...
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Category: friday fun
So far, I'm pretty iPad-agnostic -- mostly curious to see if it can burst out of it's obvious niche applications and become a mass device like the iPod or iPhone. However, The Onion's article just before the big announcement day...
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January 27, 2010
Category: best science books 2009
Oddly and interestingly, Amazon.ca has a different list that the US parent. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity & Hope by William Kamkwamba Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City by Greg...
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January 26, 2010
Category: best science books 2009
I thought I'd combine a couple lists that only have a couple of relevant items. January Magazine The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York by Matthew...
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January 25, 2010
Category: music mondays
It's been a while since I did one of these fairly general entries in the "Five songs I love" series: Forget about Me by Mem Shannon. A great blues/soul/R&B singer, Mem Shannon is terribly underrated. I love his great story-telling...
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January 22, 2010
Category: acad lib future
Horror author Cherie Priest has a very nice post from a couple of days ago called Control. It's basically about what mass market fiction authors do and don't have control over in the book production process. Now, the mass market...
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Category: friday fun
Excellent post with a lot of great comments. Let's take a look at what Scalzi doesn't miss:Stupidly expensive long-distance charges. Crappy old cars. Which cars qualify as crappy old cars? In my opinion, pretty much all of them. Pre-catalytic converter...
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January 20, 2010
Category: best science books 2009
The Reference and User Services Association of the American Library Association has released it's list of 2009 Notable Books. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann The Age of Wonder: How...
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January 19, 2010
Category: best science books 2009
A pretty extensive list from The London Times, across multiple categories: science, stocking stuffers, biography, graphic novels and nature. Mad Science: 100 Amazing Experiments From The History Of Science by Reto Schneider How To Make A Tornado: The Strange And...
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January 15, 2010
Category: friday fun
This one is pretty funny, from McSweeny's: INT. UNIVERSITY FOOD COURT. SUNDAY AFTERNOON. JULY 15TH, 1945. HANS BETHE, EDWARD TELLER, and ROBERT SERBER sit at a table. There are notebooks, laptops, and expensive coffees arranged on the table. All three...
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