Google School from Lifehacker provides some tips that we may find useful while answering some reference questions at our Information Desk. For example, Google School: Map Area Codes provides ability to see a map of that Area code at the very top as well as the area that it covers.
Source of this finding: PopSciBlog
Anonymous Patron writes “Check This Out!
Several law librarians at the 2006 American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Annual Meeting talked with Jim Milles about their jobs: how they chose law librarianship as a career, what they like about their jobs, what they don’t like, and their thoughts about the future.”
Martin writes “Several years ago an anonymous philanthropist paid $2 million for a tattered book of Christian prayers from 1200 A.D. He wasn’t interested in the medieval writing but rather in the mostly unreadable text hidden beneath — mathematical theorems and diagrams from the Greek scholar Archimedes. The book is the oldest known copy of his work but it is a palimpsest, so the writings are largely illegible. Now a new technique offers promise of making it possible to recover all of his original text.
The process is based upon the presence of iron in the ink. A researcher who was studying the physics of photosynthesis had developed a way of finding minute traces of iron in spinach. He thought he could use the same approach to read the ancient ink, and it worked. Eureka!
NPR has the details.
Anonymous Patron writes “Yet another way librarians will be supplanted. “New Text Mining Technology is Demonstrated,” in ScienceDaily“.
In case you didn’t have a chance to thoroughly peruse the winners of the recent Bulwer-Lytton Contest , here they are in descending order:
WINNERS OF THE DARK AND STORMY NIGHT CONTEST (run by the English Dept of San Jose State University), wherein one writes only the first sentence of a bad novel.
10) As a scientist, Throckmorton knew that if he were ever to break wind in the echo chamber he would never hear the end of it.
9) Just beyond the Narrows, the river widens.
8) With a curvaceous figure that Venus would have envied, a tanned, unblemished oval face framed with lustrous thick brown hair, deep azure blue eyes fringed with long black lashes, perfect teeth that vied for competition, and a small, straight nose, Marilee had a beauty that defied description.
7) Andre, a simple peasant, had only one thing on his mind as he crept along the east wall ‘Andre, creep…Andre, creep…Andre, creep…
6) Stanislaus Smedley, a man always on the cutting edge of narcissism, was about to give his body and soul to a back alley sex change surgeon to become the woman he loved.
Don’t you want to know what the winning sentence was? Read on…
In case you didn’t have a chance to thoroughly peruse the winners of the recent Bulwer-Lytton Contest , here they are in descending order:
WINNERS OF THE DARK AND STORMY NIGHT CONTEST (run by the English Dept of San Jose State University), wherein one writes only the first sentence of a bad novel.
10) As a scientist, Throckmorton knew that if he were ever to break wind in the echo chamber he would never hear the end of it.
9) Just beyond the Narrows, the river widens.
8) With a curvaceous figure that Venus would have envied, a tanned, unblemished oval face framed with lustrous thick brown hair, deep azure blue eyes fringed with long black lashes, perfect teeth that vied for competition, and a small, straight nose, Marilee had a beauty that defied description.
7) Andre, a simple peasant, had only one thing on his mind as he crept along the east wall ‘Andre, creep…Andre, creep…Andre, creep…
6) Stanislaus Smedley, a man always on the cutting edge of narcissism, was about to give his body and soul to a back alley sex change surgeon to become the woman he loved.
Don’t you want to know what the winning sentence was? Read on…
5) Although Sarah had an abnormal fear of mice, it did not keep her from eeking out a living in a local pet store.
4) Stanley looked quite bored and somewhat detached, but then penguins often do.
3) Like an overripe beefsteak tomato rimmed with cottage cheese, the corpulent remains of Santa Claus lay dead on the hotel floor.
2) Mike Hardware was the kind of private eye who didn’t know the meaning of the word ‘fear’, a man who could laugh in the face of danger and spit in the eye of death….in short, a moron with suicidal tendencies.
AND THE WINNER IS… Update: 08/05 19:29 GMT by B :[fixed, thanks Donatella]
Winner: Adventure
Christy, lounging in the gondola which slipped smoothly through the enveloping mist had her first inkling that something was afoot as she heard pattering hooves below (for our story is not in Venice but Switzerland with its Provolone and Toblerone) and craning her not unlovely neck she narrowed her eyes at the dozen tiny reindeer, pelting madly down the goat trail.
Irene Buttuls
Lytton, B.C
Search Engines WEB writes “Tech Crunch reports on the passage of US House Resolution 5319, the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA).
The vote was 410 in favor to 15 opposed. If the Resolution becomes law, social networking sites and chat rooms must be blocked by schools and libraries or those institutions will lose their federal internet subsidies”.
From the Library Thing blog
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
It’s now been just over 24 hours since we released the Groups feature, and we’re astounded at how it’s taken off. As Kevin Costner was once told, “If you build it, they will come.”*
We have 170** groups already, with a wild range of topics from Book Arts to Romance, from Austen to Byatt to Crusie. Librarians who LibraryThing took an early lead,
Anonymous Patron writes “From Engadget Now that monochrome e-paper is a pretty standard affair, those at the forefront of e-ink technology have moved on to perfecting the real killer app, which is full-color displays. We’ve already seen a tiny color model from Fujitsu, and a larger, but only two-color offering from Bridgestone, and now Hitachi — maker of the black-and-white Albirey e-paper — is showing off a 13.1-inch version of this product will an impressive 4,096-color palette.”
In these days of educational cutbacks and ‘No Child Left Behind’, it seems that studying art is practically a luxury. But the Guggenheim Museum has found otherwise; a study to be released today by the museum, and reported in the New York Times suggests that studying art helps students improve skills in other areas. They specifically cited improvements in a range of literacy and critical thinking skills among students who took part in a program Learning Through Art in which the Guggenheim sends artists into schools.
Anonymous Patron writes “MiamiHerald.com: a registered sex offender was arrested at the Lauderhill Towne Centre library Tuesday after exposing himself to two 15-year-old girls, police said.
Willie Lee Wilson, 36, of 1039 NW 11th Ct. in Fort Lauderdale, was near the computers in the library at 6399 W. Oakland Park Blvd. when the girls saw him touching himself, with his black shorts around his ankles, said Lauderhill Police Lt. Rick Rocco.
”He was not necessarily walking up to them, but he was there so that they could see him and glance at him while he was performing — uh, his act,” Rocco said.”
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