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Amused by B&N employee trying to sell me on the nook, I know more about it than her
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I love toddlers on Halloween. All they know is mom and dad have dressed them up in clothes that are even more uncomfortable and demeaning than usual, and dragged them into the street at night to go to strangers' houses to beg for candy.
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Haha. This made me giggle out loud.
- joey
Makes you wonder what (and how) we were thinking at that age.
- Julian
Speaking of which, you did see the kid in the monster-clad music video post, right? http://friendfeed.com/tinypan...
- Micah Wittman
I don't remember my first Halloween, but my mother says I was very frightened, and so she had me practice trick-or-treating at our house first, and then my father took me down the street. I was dressed as a bunny rabbit. Someday I must scan those pictures.
- laura x
Help me, Librarian Hive Mind: Intro business/marketing class next week. Need sources beyond CIA World Factbook to "[help] them develop the ability to research economic and cultural factors in evaluating potential [international] markets for various products."
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What I've got so far: Stateman's Yearbook, Political Handbook of the World (both in print, neither really goes much beyond the Factbook); Penguin Atlas of Women in the World. Halp?
- Catherine Pellegrino
http://globaledge.msu.edu/ has excellent country cultural resources and links. also - http://www.library.arizona.edu/help... - I set this up for our intro to biz cross cultural comm class. If you have StatUSA the country commercial guides in Globus/NTDB or maybe info here: http://www.state.gov/e...
- ÉllbeeÇee
Do you have access to the Economist country guides? Those are awesome too.
- ÉllbeeÇee
EllbeeCee: D'oh! I totally use those MSU/Global Edge guides in a different business class. *slaps forehead* Thanks for the reminder!
- Catherine Pellegrino
Portals to the World from the LoC has some good stuff: http://www.loc.gov/rr... and the BBC News Country Profiles are great: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
- laura x
Kiss, Bow or Shake Hands focuses on the cultural side of doing business in other countries, if you have a copy of it to recommend.
- ÉllbeeÇee
Also, what about the World Bank? http://www.worldbank.org/
- ÉllbeeÇee
Do you have Europa World Plus? Very handy.
- Megan Fitzgibbons
CultureGrams (issued once a year); Do's and taboos around the world for women in business (1997); Global business etiquette: a guide to international communication and customs (2006).
- Joe
Laura, I will definitely check out those when I'm back in the office tomorrow. Sadly, if the question is "do you have [access to]..." the answer is "no," generally speaking, for us. Joe, we cancelled our CultureGrams a while back for lack of use, but I do use and recommend the other two books for the more advanced international marketing/business course. (Would love to see an update for that first one.) Thank you, Hive Mind!
- Catherine Pellegrino
Do you have Stat-USA? Also, you should check out stlouisfed.org - they have economic data from around the world.
- Laura H.
http://www.intute.ac.uk/busines... could have some useful stuff
- Deborah Fitchett
PESTL analysis, yeah? You want EIU Viewswire, and http://laborsta.ilo.org/ ILO Laborsta I used a lot for cost of doing business in... type info and perhaps UNData. OECD stats portal, Europa.
- Fiona Bradley
This is the country/international guide the reference librarians made for my library: http://www.library.hbs.edu/guides...
- Liam Sullivan
Don't know if I'm too late to help at all, but the Doing Business data, rankings and reports from the World Bank would be a good addition. http://www.doingbusiness.org/
- Kristin Partlo
Euromonitor Passport has reports on countries (including lifestyle reports) that can be useful. Also ISI Emerging Markets, and in LexisNexis Academic the Walden Country Reports.
- Stephen Francoeur
College Bookstores Hope to Turn Their Web Sites Into E-Book Portals - The Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus blog - http://chronicle.com/blogPos...
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"College bookstores are taking steps to turn their Web sites into e-book portals, hoping to stay relevant as publishers make a push to electronic textbooks... Trying to set up an e-book-distribution operation at each college store would be difficult and expensive. So the groups -- the National Association of College Stores and the Canadian Campus Retail Associates Inc. -- have pooled their resources to develop a shared system. Each store can integrate it into its own Web site, to let students buy and download an electronic text in just a few clicks, similar to the way Amazon and other online retailers do."
- Peter Murray
Monday Poem - http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarks...
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"... and bashed my head on low-hanging branches of the tree-of-knowledge ..."
- Mar₭ Liŋdŋer
"hammering them with crude clubs made by my own hand in fits of id"
- Librarienne
"Friends don't let friends use IE6," said Amy Bazdukas, @Microsoft 's general manager for Internet Explorer. http://www.computerworld.com/s...
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i'm not sure in good conscience I could allow an enemy to use ie6 - Geneva conventions and all.
- Christina Pikas
+1 on Christina!
- Benjamin Tseng
Must. Stop. Engaging. With. [certain] Others. Their minds are made up. They know what's right. And although I'm not getting on board I need to leave their waters calm/ly.
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Yes. It's hard to remember and even harder to resist sometimes, but yes.
- Librarienne
"I science thee so hard you burst into flames"
Librarienne, josh neff, geek at large, Rachel Walden and 8 other people liked this
I find this statement to be immensely sexy...
- Mattie Kenny
lol @Mattie
- Gtp19
it totally is :)
- holly
I need to learn how to do this.
- ha3rvey (wants confit)
i retweeted this so fast my hand is burning.
- Marie drinks champagne
lol
- holly
I want to be science'd. I want to be science'd REAL HARD.
- Mattie Kenny
Ain't QC grand?
- Kirsten
innit though?
- holly
I really wish that some people would just be honest about how they feel: that poor people don't deserve health care because they're poor. (I need to stop listening to NPR for a few weeks, I think)
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That's the root of it -- I think healthcare reform opponents honestly believe that unless someone is a productive member of society, they don't deserve care.
- John Fink
while ironically most of the working poor who have no insurance are a hell of a lot more productive and critical to our society for the work they do than most people who make lots of money and have their healthcare paid for by their job.
- Meredith
Meredith, next you'll be saying silly things like "The means of production are in the hands of the workers".
- DJF
That's just the thing- while no one misses CEO's when they're out for weeks on "sick leave," we'll sure notice if the person who cleans the toilets doesn't show up tomorrow. But I guess the right sees them as essentially interchangeable anyway. I R cynical today.
- Kårín Dalzĭel
Also: I don't count myself as among the poor by any stretch of the imagination, but I did go several years without any insurance. Thank god I stayed healthy, but I lived in fear of one bad event basically ruining my entire life. I'd challenge any opponent to health care to give theirs up for a year first.
- Kårín Dalzĭel
I am a librarian today because of the Canadian single-payer system. When I started at MPOW on contract, people on short term contracts like me didn't get benefits. So I only had to worry about the risk of drug prescriptions, and be careful about my glasses for a couple of years. Such systems assist, if not actively encourage, entrepreneurial behaviour by freeing people to take risks with their career.
- DJF
Some guy on facebook that I don't even know is arguing me about the "social engineering" aspects of the house passed bill.
- Kårín Dalzĭel
Flooded Louisville Free Public Library needs your help - Boing Boing - http://www.boingboing.net/2009...
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Holy crap, you guys. BoingBoing picked up Steve's fund raising push.
- Jàson Puçkett
from Bookmarklet
that should help reach the goal.
- DJF
WOOHOO
- Imitation lris
BOING!
- Archangel ωαřмaiden
awesome!
- D0r0th34
Wow! Wow! Wow!
- josh neff, geek at large
HOT. DAMN. Go Neff! Go Steve! Go LSW!!!
- laura x
someone better warn Blake...
- jambina
I guess wearing my LSW T-shirt when I got Cory to sign my copy of Little Brother paid off. :P
- josh neff, geek at large
Fairly awesome, guys.
- Greg Schwartz
Well, Cory's an LSW member. Or at least once briefly wore the ribbon.
- Jàson Puçkett
this is so awesome.
- Meg v. Meg v. 1.0.0.1
Yeah, I reminded him of that when he mentioned liking my T-shirt. (I also mentioned you, Jason, & he remembered replying to your tweet about ALA.)
- josh neff, geek at large
I have a handful of small contributions that just rolled in of like $5 and $3 each that I'm thinking are due to the Boinging.
- s t e v e
I wonder how many of the people we reach with LSW messages are donating directly to the Foundation?
- marthalib
I Dugg the Boing Boing, so hopefully it will get even more press.
- ǎňňǎ
Martha I had someone ask in my blog who to make a Foundation check out to, so hopefully it all helps!
- Nikki D.
bump.
- Joe
So, this morning I come into work and ask our awesome admin person whether she ordered my white board for my office. Another staff person magically appears and says, "You mean this white board?" So I smart assedly say, "Wow, such instant gratification! Next time I'm asking for something better, like a chocolate cake!" To which the admin person says
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"We have a chocolate cake." I look behind the desk and lo and behold, our director has brought in a chocolate cake. Next time I'm asking for a pony.
- marthalib
really, it freaked me out a little
- marthalib
forget the pony, ask for a 10,000 dollars!
- Sir Shuping
Damn! Now I want chocolate cake.
- laura x
That is awesome!!
- Katy S
I've now been informed that my pony is in the mail
- marthalib
I'm afraid to think of what the USPS will do to your pony during the delivery process.
- DJF
Like the Canadian postal service would do any better shipping a pony
- marthalib
sweet!
- Marie drinks champagne
Oh, Canada Post would be way worse. But it's not coming from Canada, is it?
- DJF
It might be, David: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki...
- marthalib
LOL
- marthalib
I'm using Spanning Sync w/Google Calendar/Contacts & iCal/Address Book. Save $5 w/code: AB9B6T. http://spanningsync.com/...
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'Teach Naked' Effort Strips Computers From Classrooms - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - http://chronicle.com/article...
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"College leaders usually brag about their tech-filled "smart" classrooms, but a dean at Southern Methodist University is proudly removing computers from lecture halls. José A. Bowen, dean of the Meadows School of the Arts, has challenged his colleagues to "teach naked"—by which he means, sans machines. More than any thing else, Mr. Bowen wants to discourage professors from using PowerPoint, because they often lean on the slide-display program as a crutch rather using it as a creative tool. Class time should be reserved for discussion, he contends, especially now that students can download lectures online and find libraries of information on the Web. When students reflect on their college years later in life, they're going to remember challenging debates and talks with their professors. Lively interactions are what teaching is all about, he says, but those give-and-takes are discouraged by preset collections of slides."
- Katy S
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I think this is hilarious b/c I've never taught in a classroom in which I've had access to technology other than a blackboard and chalk or white board and markers.
- Katy S
Prof Bowen misses the real point here. Don't ban Power Point ... but insist his tutors learn how to use it and the rest of the suite of e-learning apps more effectively and creatively. 'Death by PowerPoint' is the problem. Killing off the app in the classroom is not the solution.
- Kate Foy
i respect the article for we should never grow solely dependent on anything, and i fear that todays community is already to reliant on technology. thanks for sharing, :)
- chaz2b
Kate - exactly! The technology isn't the problem. The problem is the way some people use it.
- Katy S
I disagree Katy. Because this isn't about knowing how to use Powerpoint. It's about profs becoming lazy and using Powerpoint as a crutch.
- Jason, Mosquito
from iPhone
Katy or as we say elsewhere about bad drivers. It's not the car, it's the nut behind the wheel.
- Kate Foy
Jason - what I meant is that they don't really know how to use it well/effectively. Sure, they can put stuff on a slide, but are they doing it to the best rhetorical effect? Usually not.
- Katy S
Jason, agree about lazy and/or unimaginative or untrained profs etc and using as a crutch etc., but it's not PP's 'fault' and a bit draconian to ban the tech altogether. I recall a similar debate emerging when hand-held calculators made their first appearance back when. Rather than teaching kids how to use the tech, the first response was to ban them from the maths classroom.
- Kate Foy
We can haz @ library? Giant Flowers Give You Free Power / Wi-Fi: http://picocool.com/eco...
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want!
- shinylib
Just noticed a sticker on my rental car: "Partial Zero Emissions Vehicle." How is something partially zero?
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0.5? I don't know. LOL
- Summer
Quasi-zero emissions?
- Admiral Anika
I tried to make a joke, but it wasn't funny, so I looked it up and learned something instead. Sorry :( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Meg v. Meg v. 1.0.0.1
Interesting, thanks for the link, Meg. It's a term only a bureaucrat would love.
- Mark Trapp
The same way when you get on a plane and are told the flight is completely full.
- Marie drinks champagne
Parital Zero Emo: credible goth makeup and clothing, but a really cheery attitude.
- Micah Wittman
Sunday Poem - http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarks...
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"... If I love her, later we will catalog the moons. ..."
- Mar₭ Liŋdŋer
So it doesn't get lost, here's the official LSW ALA Chicago Meetup Thread! I'll add something to http://thelsw.org also. Where, who's going, when, etc. etc. etc.
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i'll be in Chicago Thurs to Tues.
- ~Courtney F.
I'll be there Tuesday the 9th to Sunday the 14th.
- Webgoddess
Friday afternoon the 12th; Monday afternoon the 15th.
- D0r0th34
Fri-Tues.
- Jàson Puçkett
Friday a.m. to Saturday p.m. if i make it at all...
- jambina
WOOHOO! Thurs or Fri-Tues.
- Rochelle Rochelle
Yay! Thanks Courtney for setting this up!!! I'm in Chicago the night of Friday the 10th - Tuesday afternoon the 14th. I can't wait for the meetup :)
- Becca
Thursday to Monday
- Linda Crook
Now then....since we got this started...where might we want to meet? I don't know Chicago very well...but I love me some Chicago Pizza!
- Becca
Um... D0r0th34 do you mean Thurs the 9th through Wed the 15th of July?
- awd
Ack, dammit, looking at wrong month on calendar. No, I'm going there-and-back-again both Friday and Monday.
- D0r0th34
I'll be there Thurs-Tues or Wednesday (I don't remember which day I'm flying back at the moment)
- ÉllbeeÇee
My stint will be: Thurs 7/9 - Wed 7/15 -- anyone looking for roommates and/or a massive roomshare? http://confroomies.pbwiki.com/ Also, I don't have my hotel reservation yet...
- awd
Day trip for Saturday only.
- Catherine Pellegrino
count me in, I think I'm coming down Thursday, headed back on Tuesday--probably early to work evening desk shift. How about Rock Bottom as a meet up place. Near Red Line is on state. North of the loop a little.
- Abigail
I am planning to do a day trip. Saturday might work well for me, too.
- Laura H.
Shoving this back up to the top of the list. Can I get a consensus on Saturday night?
- Abigail
I'll be there Saturday and Sunday. Might be able to stay overnight on Saturday, still finding out; if not, then two day trips.
- Betsy (bentley) Vera
I suggest: http://www.rockbottom.com/
- Abigail
Good Deep Dish Chicago Pizza... that. is. required. :)
- awd
Fri-Tues. I think Saturday night would be just fine.
- Jàson Puçkett
Wed. thru Wed. lots of work to get preconference session ready!
- Lori Reed
Nudging for other location suggestions
- Abigail
I can now say that I'm gonna be there Friday to Monday, so I'll be able to make the meetup, yay!
- D0r0th34
Abigail, Rock Bottom has, like, *nothing* on the menu that's vegetarian. Pizza works for me; shall I google 'round?
- D0r0th34
It starting to look like I will be in Chicago Friday - Sunday on vacation. not at the ALA annual
- DJF
Absolutely--I hadn't thought about veggie, Sorry to the veggies :) How about http://www.giordanos.com/?
- Abigail
I know now, I am staying overnight on Saturday. I probably won't have internet access over the weekend (unless they have free computers at ALA).
- Betsy (bentley) Vera
Giordano's looks awesome to me.
- D0r0th34
Betsy (bentley) Vera - there is usually an internet area set up for attendees in the lobby of the conference center, and sometimes in the exhibits as well.
- Jaclyn
So we all (mostly) say Saturday night -- where & when? Needs to be 1. vegan- & omni- friendly, 2. adult beverages served, 3. good food, 4. spacious -- are we talking after-party or are we talking dinner?
- awd
bumping back up to the top. Recapping: Saturday night, It sounds like some people have settled on Giordano's. Now, the questions are, "When", and "Is somebody going to warn Giordano's?"
- DJF
Is 6:30 an acceptable time? I'm happy to call and warn them if I can get an approximate nose count.
- Abigail
The time depends on whether this is the main event for people, or an after-dinner thing, I guess. Then again, we might just have two waves: the LSW dinner people, and the LSW after-party, all in the same place.
- DJF
This Unicorn-Pooping-a-Rainbow cake is rated "E" for everyone - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Last night, I dreamed that I masterfully handled an awful, harrowing reference shift. Then, I taught a kickass class on folksonomy and taxonomy. I wish I could remember what I did. I think it involved walking around outside on railings while shouting out possible tags and subject headings for something.
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Gizmodo - iHome's iConnect Keyboard Combines QWERTY and iPod Docking - iconnect - http://gizmodo.com/5291772...
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"There are different two versions of the keyboard built for Windows and Macs, and although they both contain two USB ports, the Mac's version has extra keys that allow you to quickly access applications such as iCal, iChat, Mail, Safari and Front Row. For $150, you can purchase the iConnect sometime"
- Don Bonaddio
from Bookmarklet
Looks quite cool. Now if they made it wireless and put the phone on the right, it could make for a good media center pc keyboard using the phone as the mouse pad.
- Keith Bennett
from BuddyFeed
Looks nice, and it'd actually work well for me, as I'm left handed. (Maybe the designer was too...)
- Ryan - @magicofpi
I just encountered a blog I'd never heard of, by someone who professes to be an expert on on-screen typography and readability. The blog is white type on a black background. As I get older, my toleration for oxymoronic sites is shrinking... I won't be back, most likely.
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Monday Poem - http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarks...
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"As odd as it is to be alive it’s odder still to imagine whatever it is not to be. ..."
- Mar₭ Liŋdŋer
Stephen's Lighthouse: Two Great Social Visuals - http://stephenslighthouse.sirs...
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I can hear the 'ooo's and 'ahh's of audiences already :-)
- Sharon Palchak
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