Monday, September 13. 2004
Tracey turned me on to this list of 25 Greatest Futurama moments ever.
For those of us who love Unshelved and want to help out Bill and Gene, here's a way to show our affection, and save money!
They're having a clearance sale on Unshelved stuff.
[End shameless plug, begin shopping]
This was sent to me by my buddy Beth yesterday, but didn't get posted (technical difficulties). Beth's a librarian, so this amused her no end... Daily flirt (by Astrology.com)
Capricorn: Lately you're feeling much more like a librarian than you'd like. But librarians are secretly hot -- and so are you today, so don't worry. Revel in luxurious facts. Investigate the unexplored corners of the stacks. Secretly??!!!
Even the freaky Japanese cat is younger than me. Sigh.
And what's with those weird half-cat/half-animal things? Very creepy.
Thanks to The Katie for the link 
(And this one is so for Joy.)
A recent email from MoveOn.org included the following: Though you'd never know it from the TV news, a close look at the polls shows that the Republican convention was actually a bust for the President. According to the Gallup polling agency, Bush's bounce was "one of the smallest registered in Gallup polling history, along with Hubert Humphrey's two-point bounce following the 1968 Democratic convention [and] George McGovern's zero-point bounce following the 1972 Democratic convention . . . Bush's bounce is the smallest an incumbent president has received."[1] Bush's speech received slightly worse ratings from voters than John Kerry's, and according to the same Gallup poll, a remarkable 38% of voters said the convention made them less likely to vote for Bush.[2] Let's not get cocky, folks! This is going to be as close as 2000, possibly more. Then again, technically we won that one, too...
Another article on the upcoming movie, TNT's The Librarian. This quote had me gagging: Bookworms of the world, rejoice! Now you have an action-adventure hero: The Librarian. "Instead of having the protagonist be a cool, dashing, heroic type, he's more of a brainiac. He specifically mentions knowing the Dewey Decimal System," says ER's Noah Wyle, who plays him in the Dec. 5 TNT movie.
Instead of supersonic shushing, this librarian's job requires protecting mythological items, including Excalibur and the Ark of the Covenant, in a repository beneath the New York Public Library. [emphasis mine] This begs the question (for me, at least): would an archeological repository use Dewey?! Puhleeze!
David Brooks had an amusing column in Saturday's NY Times, on the donations given to the respective campaigns, broken down by profession:
There are two sorts of people in the information-age elite, spreadsheet people and paragraph people. Spreadsheet people work with numbers, wear loafers and support Republicans. Paragraph people work with prose, don't shine their shoes as often as they should and back Democrats.
C.E.O.'s are classic spreadsheet people. According to a sample gathered by PoliticalMoneyLine in July, the number of C.E.O.'s donating funds to Bush's campaign is five times the number donating to Kerry's.
Professors, on the other hand, are classic paragraph people and lean Democratic. Eleven academics gave to the Kerry campaign for every 1 who gave to Bush's. Actors like paragraphs, too, albeit short ones. Almost 18 actors gave to Kerry for every 1 who gave to Bush. For self-described authors, the ratio was about 36 to 1. Among journalists, there were 93 Kerry donors for every Bush donor. For librarians, who must like Faulknerian, sprawling paragraphs, the ratio of Kerry to Bush donations was a whopping 223 to 1.
Laura Bush has a lot of work to do in shoring up her base. [emphasis mine]
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