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This link came courtesy of Michael Sauers from Cnet.
Apparently Google has an age limit to use, well anything associated with it. From searching to using services such as Gmail. Here’ the link to the article. Who knew? So often we ignore or look quickly at the terms of use, that we miss things like this. I guess I should be glad that I’m old enough to use their services.

We all hear growing up that the first recording of a human voice is Thomas Edison’s “Mary had a little lamb.” However, this may not be true. Audio historian David Giovannoni, has discovered a recording that predates Edison’s by 17 years. Parisian inventor Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville used a phonautograph to create this artifacts.

“The Librarian” will be returning to TV again sometime later this year. It will be called “Curse of the Judas Chalice,” and apparently deal with a vampire and the Judas Chalice, whatever that may be.

Yes I “borrowed” the title of the post from Meredith Farkas, but I thought I’d post her post here to get a broader response. How is your library assessing social technologies in the library? The comments have some good thoughts, but what are others doing?

From Downloadsquad:

Ever wonder if the website is really down or if its just your computer? We’ve all had it happen when we need to know if maybe its really just that our computer has decided to @#$ up at the worst possible moment. Well know there’s a new website to check out that will tell you…if the website is really down or if it’s just you. Could prove really useful when everything else works except that one site that the patron standing in front of you needs.

This is from last week, but still very cool. Researcher’s have uncovered what they believe to be the earliest known photograph of Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan. It was donated to the New England Historic Genealogical Society, by a man whose mother had played with Keller one summer. An interesting piece of history rediscovered!

The OPL librarian posted this a while back on what she thought was an almost perfect library webpage.

The chief of the Iraqi Journalists’ Union Shihab al-Timimi died on Wed. after being fired upon by gunmen.

Author William F. Buckley Jr, has passed away today at the age of 82. For more information on Buckley take a look at the Wikipedia article (yes Wikipedia…just beware of incorrect information or vandalism.)

Here’s a belated Friday funny…..