from a fellow librarianna - a very cool site where you rank snipets of candidates’ issue policy statements without knowing whose is whose.
makes me want the real election to be run this way. force people to actually vote on the issues. what a concept.
take it here: http://www.myelectiondecision.org/
it was made by people at Lawrence University and [...]
Archive for October, 2007
coolest election-related site
Posted in cool, politics! on October 27, 2007 | No Comments »
random things you never knew you needed to know
Posted in cool, random on October 27, 2007 | No Comments »
i found a list of seemingly random fact, mostly having to do with words, but other animal-ish things. how very librarianish.
an excerpt:
The word “set” has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.”
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.A cat has 32 [...]
very cool building
Posted in cool, kudos, old on October 15, 2007 | No Comments »
just searching around, i found these neat pictures of the Kansas City public library’s parking ramp - weird, right? well, here are the steps…
check out the rest of the pictures, go to the Kansas City Public Library page and click on “Virtual Tour” or go to this other blog i found with some casual shots [...]
ridiculous on top of ridiculousness
Posted in ridiculous on October 7, 2007 | No Comments »
so i found a bookmark with the top 100 most frequently banned books listed on it today. cool. for fun, i went through the list to see how many i’ve read (about half-ish).
BUT
now, first of all, i think banning books is pretty ridiculous. but one of the books on the list just went a little [...]
pass me my cane, would you sonny-boy?
Posted in old, ow, tagged old, ow on October 7, 2007 | No Comments »
i fell and hurt myself while i was taking a shower today. i am officially old.
