What happens when a comedian gets a Masters Degree in Library Science? Apparently, you end up with a fun website, a line of library inspired clothing, and a Black Crowes parody video that shares the difficulty of understanding just why Edgar Allen Poe’s writing is ♫ Hard to Handle now, Gets around… bomp, bomp,
ILTA Presentation Outsourcing
Next Thursday afternoon at 3:30 PM in the Maryland A conference room of the Gaylord National Resort in Washington D.C., Sean Brady and I will be giving our presentation: APP 13 – The Future of Data Delivery Or: How I Learned to Stop Browsing and Love the App.
Ours is the last session on
Postcard From the Law Firm of Whitestar, Titanic, and Iceberg LLP
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[Note: Here’s a guest post from someone riding the BigLaw Cruise ship of Whitestar, Titantic, and Iceberg LLP… enjoy, and we’ll all meet over at the bar when you’re through reading it. -GL]
In the rest of the world it’s August 2012, but at my firm it’s April 1912. You see, I
Note To SCOTUS: If You're Going to Google, You Might Want To Take This Course
According to the Washington Post, the Justices on the US Supreme Court are big fans of Googling facts not presented to the court in briefs or oral arguments. Although the practice of in-house fact finding is not prohibited by any rules, the practice does raise some questions about how Justices research the issues presented
The "God Particle" Meets the Gawd-Awful Font
Apparently in the world of typography, Comic Sans has become the “Nickelback” of fonts. In other words, you can play with it all you want in the privacy of your own home, but you never, ever, let other people know you actually like it, let alone that you use it in a professional environment. Poor Comic
Red-Flagging the Newspaper — What's a Librarian to do?
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As a librarian, I have been asked to stop people from “Red Flagging” the office newspaper (taking it in the bathroom) — Slate’s Dear Prudence does a nice job covering this issue in today’s post. I love that Prudie suggests that the person not take drastic measures to solve the situation:
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PicMonkey – For When Your Profile Pictures Needs To Look Five Years Younger
The developers that were behind the popular online photo editor called Picnik (which was bought by Google and will go under Google+ Creative Kit later this month) have created an alternative (and free) site called PicMonkey. I played around with it and found it to have a lot of features for an online editor.
Toby, Greg & Scott — Look For Us at TECHSHOW!
To steal an idea from our friend Jason Wilson… this is Toby Brown, Greg Lambert* and Scott Preston. We will be at TECHSHOW this week. We may, or may not be in our matching Terminator costumes, however.
*Actually, Greg will be at the AALL Board Meetings during the day, and will find any available
And the Answer Is…
Ed Walters and I had a little fun on Twitter this morning when Ed tweeted this week’s answer key. Being the rather smart-alecky person I am, I filled in the “questions” just for fun. Kind of like the old Johnny Carson routine of Carnac the Magnificent.
So, I thought we’d have a little fun and
A Few Tweets I'd Rather Not See in 2012
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As we say goodbye to 2011 and say hello to 2012, I’d like to take a moment to mention some of the things I’d rather not see make it into the new year (at least on my Twitter Feed.) Besides running into this poor sap that thought getting a Fail Whale tattoo