leave it to steve martin to create a funny ABC book for kids. The Alphabet from A to Y With Bonus Letter Z
NPR has an interview with mr. martin and roz chast, a cartoonist often featured in The New Yorker, that did the illustrations.
now i just need to have more kids that would be interested [...]
Archive for the ‘cool’ Category
a cool alphabet book? could it be true?
Posted in cool, fun! on December 2, 2007 | No Comments »
usability video
Posted in cool on December 2, 2007 | No Comments »
from the guys at etre, a group of web developers focused on making the web easier for the people - those that actually use the web, not just create it.
coolest election-related site
Posted in cool, politics! on October 27, 2007 | No Comments »
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 [...]
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 [...]
