Archive for December, 2006
Robert Schiller on the cosmo class
The Yale economist Robert Schiller has written an article that discusses the rapidly growing “cosmopolian” class. Read the article, but here’s the end:
EXTRA, EXTRA: changes coming to the best newspaper in America
I am looking forward to seeing the revamped Wall Street Journal on Tuesday.
Along with the improved USA Today, it is my favorite national newspaper. I’ve been reading it since my early teens and have been a subscriber for the last year or two. Among the changes coming:a narrower, “standard” newspaper format (fine with me, the [...]
Favorites of the Squared Circle
It is late and I’m going to see my brother Monday and I’ve been YouTubing wrestling videos tonight and I haven’t posted for a few days so I figured I’d get back into this by listing a few of my (don’t laugh) favorite professional wrestlers.
Wicked Wicked Games
I’ve been a fan of Tatum’s since Paper Moon and the original Bad News Bears. Her acting on this new show is atrocious. I think I can actually see her reading lines off cards. Nonetheless, I think I am putting Wicked Wicked Games on my favorite show list. No way I ‘ll ever be able [...]
Gaming and Libraries: Intersection of Services
Jenny Levine, The Shifted Librarian, has written a new book Gaming and Libraries: Intersection of Services, published by ALA. I will read this soon.
The case studies reveal that gaming programs often turn out to be among the most popular a library can offer. “I have yet to hear about a library of any type offering [...]
Sunny Bagpipes
I was in the car driving somewhere, sometime before my daughter was born. The details are fuzzy.
On the radio, I heard this wild, stirring, live jazz version of the pop hit “Sunny“.“What are you, an arcade?”
Earlier this year, at our second-busiest building, the supervisory staff made a somewhat controversial decision to disallow access to “gaming” sites on our public computers. We accomplish this through our content filter, setting access to sites classified as GAMES to “disallow”. This seems counter to the “Library 2.0″ and “teen outreach” themes en vogue these [...]
Do you like people? Do people like you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smrrZpbvI20
It would be fun if we could to make the music from this intro start playing every time a librarian approaches someone to offer assistance.
Forbes.com on books
Forbes.com has a special section about books I’m looking forward to enjoying.
What if you’re on your cell phone AND drunk while driving?
This story from a TV station in Wilmington compares the dangers of driving while drunk to driving while cell-phoning.
While driving to work this morning, I heard a radio discussion about different states outlawing hand-held cell use while driving. I totally support this. I don’t drive a lot in comparison to many people, but I drive [...]
