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Archive for October 27th, 2007

coolest election-related site

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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