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Meet the birds with a backpack who deliver their parcels on time - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news...
Deborah Fitchett, sinan mansuroglu, Sarah G. and 10 other people liked this
"These pigeon couriers are members of the last avian postal service in the world - and could give Royal Mail a few ideas. The birds, from the U.S. city of Fort Collins, Colorado transport digital images of intrepid white water rafters to be processed in what is known as the 'Pigeon Express'. They fly from the top of the Cache La Poudre River down to a base at the bottom where thrill-seekers can collect their snaps."
- AJ Batac
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People in a traffic jam love a guy with broadband.
Baroness Von SmashAHomie, Michael Porter, ǎňňǎ and 11 other people liked this
I hope you're not driving.
- Jàson Puçkett
Total standstill. I was walking around with my laptop, figuring that people would be starving for information about the crash and highway closure.
- Greg Schwartz
em'effing roving reference baby
- Rev. Dr. W!cKeD Rock
make sure you you count those stats.
- ÉllbeeÇee
LOL.
- laura x
Dude, I love you. :)
- Jenica
Leave it to Greg to find new ways to be awesome.
- s t e v e
Shiny cans- Finish your soda, then light up - http://thestar.com.my/lifesty...
Emma, Darren Heydon, Caroline and 8 other people liked this
"ALUMINIUM soda cans are thin, making them easy to cut. They are light too and dent easily. So, how on earth do we cut slits onto the cans to make little lanterns without ruining them? The trick is to fill them with water and pop them into the freezer for a few hours. Six hours is quite enough for the ice to form before working on the cans."
- Anna Haro
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"The ice inside the can is the solid “solution” to our creative problem. We can then cut lines, hammer or pierce holes to form patterns and designs on them. I use an ordinary craft cutter for splicing the cans and found the blades sharpened in the process. Be extra careful when making today’s project."
- Anna Haro
um...am I misremembering this name: Sergio Rivera-Ayala from some fall out between Mr. Steve and Ms. Iris? cause I just got an e-mail from the publisher trying to sell me a book by the author. standard crappy opening (dear librarian) but the name stood out to me
Deborah Fitchett and ωαřмaiden, MFA'd poet liked this
No. No, you are not misremembering that name.
- Catherine Pellegrino
uh oh
- marthalib
dang...I wonder if I should send to my boss and tell her not to order from this publisher...
- Sir Shuping
Did Steve or Iris post IP addy? Curious to know if that's a match.
- Nikki D.
Hehhehehehe. Well, at least that's honest, though. Iris did not post the IP.
- s t e v e
Because apparently they think the librarians don't talk to each other....
- Abigail
Yeah, I can't fault the publisher here: it's an honest and above-board solicitation. But surely the publisher has to know what's been going on with their author....right? (I mean, just Google the dude, for heaven's sake.)
- Catherine Pellegrino
librarians talk to each other? No way! Librarians just read books all day! ;)
- ÉllbeeÇee
what's even better...the book they are trying to sell...same one that the "student" e-mailed Iris about. saying it's just been published
- Sir Shuping
how utterly bizarre.
- barbara fister
good catch, Andrew
- marthalib
Andrew, would you please forward that email to me? And yes, the publisher knows, or should know, because I emailed them at the time.
- s t e v e
sent it to ya steve!
- Sir Shuping
How to help someone use a computer - http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre...
Deborah Fitchett, Alison, ♫Geek in the 410♫ and 2 other people liked this
Replace the word "Computer" with "Library" and a lot of this applies to our users.
- DJF
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RT @FakeAPStylebook: The rules for numbers below ten do not apply to 6. He is not a number, he is a free man.
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Were I to be hit by a semi or crushed by a giant anvil at this exact moment, I would die happy. Do you know why? Because the freakin IT department has finally agreed to install Firefox shortcuts on the desktops of lab and classroom computers, that is why!!!
RudĩϐЯaЯïan, Jennifer McDaniel, Deborah Fitchett and 6 other people liked this
I have no idea why this was such a Big Deal in the first place.
- marthalib
For my next evil deed, I will badger them to install the Zotero extension! Mwahahaha!
- marthalib
This is great! Our systems folks gave us FF a while back, but had everything locked down tight into the classroom until recently. They installed Open Office, then we had to badger to get them to enable the USB ports so students could actually save stuff. Isn't victory sweet, even when it's a fight you shouldn't have had to have?
- Kaijsa Calkins
time to start working on getting Chrome on there. you might get it by 2020 :)
- J450N
Got a call from Tom Richardson at NEJM- NEJM did not license their content to Clinical Reader-CR is (again) violating copyright and stealing
Deborah Fitchett, Catherine Pellegrino, Jennifer McDaniel and 5 other people liked this
Heh heh heh. They'll be following up with CR, I presume? That should be several flavors of amusing, if CR gives them the same treatment that Nikki got.
- D0r0th34
wow...I wonder how long it will take for someone to sue the crap out of CR for copyright violations and harassment
- Sir Shuping
Yes, NEJM will be following up. :)
- David Rothman (☤)
*makes popcorn*
- marthalib
Good move David :) Too bad Springer wasn't paying attention back in July http://eagledawg.blogspot.com/2009...
- Nikki D.
(Tom seems really cool, btw. He plays with T.Scott in the Bearded Pigs.)
- David Rothman (☤)
I presume they will also be following up with VImeo since that is where the infringement may have started...
- Peter Murray
I'm w/ Martha... I need a good show.
- Erika Sevetson
" ClinicalReader.tv respects copyrights filtering recent media files from popular external sources." http://multimedia.clinicalreader.com/
- marthalib
next we hear, CR will be the exclusive distributor for the Australasian Journal of X series...
- D0r0th34
Lol@Dorothea
- David Rothman (☤)
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Yeah, Martha- I highlighted that in the post: http://davidrothman.net/2009...
- David Rothman (☤)
O RLY? Who, Elsevier? *snort* per comment 'We’re currently in the process of being taken over by a large publisher who intends to integrate our technology into their own systems.'
- Nikki D.
javascript:void(document.body.contentEditable=(document.body.contentEditable!='true'))
Livia, Mehmet Fatih YILDIZ, Dmitry 'radiant' Volkov and 94 other people liked this
WHOA! Cool!
- AJ Batac
awesome!
- siniradam
you just made my color blind self cry tears of joy - I can now click that to discover all of the links that some crazy color mad designer has "hidden" from me by their color choices
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
wow neat trick
- Onur Gündüz
is there a bookmarklet to make hackernews look good on the iphone?
- Ivan Kirigin
Add this to FriendFeed and you've got Wave :-)
- Jesse Stay
Reminds me somewhat of ClutterMe http://www.clutterme.com/ - they figured out how to make a whole page in-place-editable (javascript of course) - just click anywhere and start typing: http://www.clutterme.com/pages...
- Christopher Galtenberg
Nice, discover links obscured by CSS
- Orlando Pozo
Cute trick. Not being familiar with java script (at all) what is the void%200 statement there for?
- Eric Borisch
Without the void 0, the browser will navigate to a page showing the result of the computation.
- Paul Buchheit
Not grasping the %200, though
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
But that's not the case when I just execute it in the (safari) address bar. I take it that's expected?
- Eric Borisch
%20 is a space. I'm not sure about safari -- I use ff.
- Paul Buchheit
Cool. This + FB + malcontents + screenshots = ???
- Eric Borisch
What is this supposed to do again ?-- it does nothing that I can discern in IE, FF or Chrome (on Vista).
- Brian Sullivan
OK I see what it does on FF.
- Brian Sullivan
But only in FireFox presumably?
- Brian Sullivan
It works on IE
- AJ Batac
So it does -- first time I tried IE8 crashed.
- Brian Sullivan
Works in Chrome, too
- Jan Ole Peek
It doesn't seem to work in 4.0.223.11
- Brian Sullivan
I'm still on Chrome 3.0.195.27 but it says no update detected... this is in Win7. Pretty sure my OSX Chrome is 4.0.223.11 though.
- Jan Ole Peek
4.0.223.11 is the latest in the dev stream.
- Brian Sullivan
Works on Chrome Mac version here. I added the script as a new bookmark in the menu.
- Jesper Lind
Try this instead to avoid the %20 weirdness: javascript:void(document.body.contentEditable=(document.body.contentEditable!='true'))
- Matt Mastracci
Doesn't seem to work either -- maybe a bug in the dev version?
- Brian Sullivan
World's coolest bookmarklet, especially those who are creating demo apps.
- Mike Reynolds
Wow, this is awesome (works perfectly for me in Firefox 3.5). Simple Bookmarklet code that makes Web pages "editable". Now if only there were save + back buttons or something = Instant Wiki.
- Alex Schleber
I realized after playing for a while, some of the keyboard events stop working, like submitting form by hitting Enter .. (FF 3.5.3)
- Onur Gündüz
this is the fundamental line of every wysiwyg editor you use. for IE use allowEdit
- Tzury Bar Yochay
Clicking it a second time makes it un-editable (and therefore it should respond to events and such).
- Paul Buchheit
So how do you discover 'hidden' links.?
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
Cool, worked for me (the box is Windows Chrome 3.0.195.27)
- ǝuǝƃnǝ
I mean in all open tabs and windows, not just in editable mode. It stayed that way, still no keyboard events (not restarted ff yet) :)
- Onur Gündüz
Figured how to make it but what's it good for - pretending to rip other people's stuff to sh*t?
- Michael Slattery
Michael - I'm thinking about possible use as a minor webdesign tool. Of course other tools are more powerful, but this is a nice simple one.
- Deborah Fitchett
Ok, I finally get it
- Michael Slattery
this is the worlds best website
- Grant Rhoades
Green Halloween Contest » Cheshire Cat - http://ffffound.com/image...
Deborah Fitchett, Tamara, Will Higgins™ and 5 other people liked this
that's great.........
- VAL D. Zone
O_o
- Danny Minick
The New LSW Vimeo Account on Vimeo - http://vimeo.com/7476513
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Deborah Fitchett, cecily, Kirsten and 9 other people liked this
Upload your librarish videos to our Vimeo account. Login vimeo@shoversandmakers.net/notala
- s t e v e
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And after dissing YouTube, Vimeo isn't making a thumbnail image. My playback was choppy, but that could be my connection.
- s t e v e
I often have this issue with Vimeo
- marthalib
It came up after another short wait.
- s t e v e
Oh, and when Josh is back from gallivanting around with Royce and Mary Carmen and all, we can ask him to add the Vimeo feed to this room.
- s t e v e
I just heard Steve talking!
- JSNFLMNG
I couldn't stop staring at my own nostrils.
- s t e v e
they are lovely nostrils indeed
- marthalib
Neat idea, Steve. :) I love Vimeo's interface, but I have that same problem with thumbnails and I wish Vimeo did mobile as well as YouTube does. I'm on Vimeo at http://vimeo.com/davidlrothman (mostly home video of Simon). :)
- David Rothman (☤)
I love librarians. They always make me feel like the world's gonna be AOK.
prezzemolo, Una Bauer, Deborah Fitchett and 5 other people liked this
You just made my day with this comment :)
- ωαřмaiden, MFA'd poet
On the Internet No one Has to Know How Much of An Ass You Really Are « Circ and Serve - http://circandserve.wordpress.com/2009...
Deborah Fitchett, josh neff, geek at large and Mary Carmen liked this
Top Twitter Lists http://www.vobios.com/twitter... are very male...let's make a women-in-STEM and/or women-bloggers lists and such and push them.
D0r0th34, Jen and Deborah Fitchett liked this
Sounds like something @FindingAda would be interested in.
- Deborah Fitchett
Nature's Weirdest Creatures - http://politics.sgforums.com/forums...
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Mary, 'Like' robot (frɐnc), Deborah Fitchett and 3 other people liked this
Gotta catch 'em all!
- josh neff, geek at large
LOL
- ωαřмaiden, MFA'd poet
Jabba The Hut ?
- johnpiercy
Pik-a-choo, nosy fella, Squeeee!!! ;D
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
Yeah, they are awesome, scary and funny....:O) ... @johnpiercy... I'm sure it is Jabba or his son maybe???
- Jeannette Høvring
google search : the droids we're looking for - http://jeffisageek.posterous.com/google-...
Irma Vermaat, Deborah Fitchett, Chris Zlatis and 5 other people liked this
Target has TimTams again! Yaaaaaaaaayyyyy!!!!!
Deborah Fitchett and Kathryn says love n peace liked this
Research on Twitter and Microblogging - http://www.danah.org/Twitter...
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danah boyd's bibliography of research on twitter and microblogging.
- Michael Nielsen
Hide sees libraries as core council services, paper here: http://img.scoop.co.nz/media...
Deborah Fitchett liked this
A guarantee from @walkingpaper, "you can remove 25% of the pages on your site and it will be ok." focus on fewer, better words.
Deborah Fitchett liked this
If this doesn't get you excited for the next zine, nothing will. (Also, trying like mad to get it done in time for Internet Librarian.)
Connie Crosby, ÉllbeeÇee, joe is... and 6 other people liked this
well done
- marthalib
FriendFeed Death Watch - Hour 24: We have been able to keep it alive for a full day... well done team. I'm going to get some sleep but if anything happens, page me on my beeper.
Glenn Slaven, Deborah Fitchett, Chieze Okoye and 14 other people liked this
PS... Doctor Mario kicked major ass on my GameBoy... That is all
- Johnny Worthington
PPS... Despite many years and the Nintendo DS and iPhone, I still play my GameBoy on occasion... That should be declared dead too... but it isn't... New isn't always better... or required...
- Johnny Worthington
I proposed idea @ MPOW that I've been wanting for years. It might now happen! But then realized...more work 4 me. What was I thinking?!
Laura Lou Who is tired and Deborah Fitchett liked this
Silly Weezy! ;)
- josh neff, geek at large
I hate it when that happens (which is all the time!).
- marthalib
My buddy Glen and I call it The Curse of Competence.
- Louise Alcorn
This Is a Photoshop and It Blew My Mind - Photosketch - http://gizmodo.com/5374890...
Wulffy, Nicholas James, David Berrebi and 127 other people liked this
"PhotoSketch is an internet-based program that can take the rough, labeled sketch on the left and automagically turn it into the naff montage on the right."
- Paul Buchheit
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Wow, that is awesome. The authors list cracked me up: "Tao Chen, Ming-Ming Cheng, Ping Tan, Ariel Shamir, and Shi-Min Hu". One of these things is not like the others.
- Jim Norris
What is the definition of naff here? Here in the UK it effectively means stupid/silly/rubbish.
- Travis Koger
Yes, I can see it from the pixels.. :)
- Jemm
Wow, co-developed at NUS! although they've managed to mis-spell Singapore
- arunthampi
That's mind-bogglingly cool...
- Andrew Terry
Unb-freaking-livable!!
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
their site is down already...
- Maхx Tee
pretty neat but when i downloaded some higher resolution examples in their pdf, they didnt look quite as good
- bob
it's not so much about the resolution as it is about the intelligence of the system. Pretty cool!
- Vincent van Wylick
That seems so unreal! OnLive looks more real then this! Its blowing my mind
- Devin
Was just reading about this in a spanish photography blog. Amazing program.
- Juan Pablo González
Wow. That is so cool!
- Zachary TG
Similar to some cmu research http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/project...
- Ryan Moulton
Does this even work? I think it might be a farce.
- Harsh SIngh
Will be resorting to short Anglo-Saxon words that generally have vulgar connotations for the rest of the day.
Deborah Fitchett, Catherine Pellegrino and Laura Lou Who is tired liked this
That's the cutest prelude to coarse swearing I've seen in a while.
- josh neff, geek at large
You’ve Got The Wrong(est) Number - http://notalwaysright.com/youve-g...
Deborah Fitchett, Laura Lou Who is tired and Peter Murray liked this
Oh that's so wrong!
- Liam Sullivan
lmao *wipes away laugh-tear* :)
- awd
ROFL!
- Laura Lou Who is tired
I got two questions on Skype library reference. Finally!
Deborah Fitchett liked this
That's a start. What library are you at?
- Stephen Francoeur
Gail Borden Public Library (Elgin, Ill.). We started using it when the branch (our first) opened in August.
- Betsy (bentley) Vera
Wondering if you might get more traffic on Skype if the "Ask a Librarian" drop down under "Research" on the home page went to the page listing various options for getting help. Looks like Ask a Librarian drop down just goes to your email reference service from QuestionPoint.
- Stephen Francoeur
We started it because the branch doesn't have a librarian or a reference desk. There's a dedicated Skype computer at the front of the branch, near the public computers and the check-out desk and the Holds shelf. In five weeks, we've had only a handful of questions (including today's two).
- Betsy (bentley) Vera
And the two I got were initiated by branch staff. (A patron couldn't remember a search technique we had taught her at the main library reference and branch asked about it. The other was a policy question that hadn't come up at the branch yet.)
- Betsy (bentley) Vera
I'll mention your suggestion to my boss.
- Betsy (bentley) Vera
Woohoo! LoC is going to revise "Cookery": http://www.loc.gov/catdir... [PDF]
Deborah Fitchett, DeborahWK, Stephen Francoeur and Betsy (bentley) Vera liked this
aw - there goes an example I used to use in class!
- Christina Pikas
Such is progress, Christina. We can only make fun of the "unfortunate" until they change their ways. ;)
- Mar₭ Liŋdŋer
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