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Entries from August 2005

Wednesday, August 17. 2005

The only thing funny about gas prices this week...


...are the t-shirts.

Thanks, Lola.

Posted by lalcorn in Stuff on the Web at 17:38 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
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Tuesday, August 16. 2005

ALA in opposition to REAL ID Act


My apologies, but I'm playing catch-up with my blog entries. You've probably already seen this, but in case you haven't...it's a Word document, so just caveat linkor:

RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF IMMIGRANTS’ RIGHTS TO FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY ACCESS

Link is to Democracy in Action.


Posted by lalcorn in Library Rants at 21:31 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
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Darth Tater's Got a Posse


Darth Tater, that Potato Head of the Dark Side, now has his own Star Wars Spud Troopers.

Posted by lalcorn in Geek Stuff at 21:25 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
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Wednesday, August 10. 2005

Happy St. Lawrence's Day


James Quinn reminded me that today, August 10th, is St. Lawrence's Day, patron saint of libraries and librarians. Also of:
Archives; archivists; armories; armourers; brewers; butchers; Ceylon; comedians; comediennes; comics; confectioners; cooks; cutlers; deacons; fire; glaziers; laundry workers; lumbago; paupers; poor people; restauranteurs; Rome; schoolchildren; seminarians; Sri Lanka; stained glass workers; students; tanners; vine growers; vintners; wine makers.
Lumbago? Well, I guess that relates to librarians and archivists--we all have bad backs!

Since we share the day with vintners, I think we should all knock off early and raise a glass of wine to our profession.

Happy Day, everyone.

Posted by lalcorn in Library Stuff at 12:35 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
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Monday, August 8. 2005

Now, this religion I could get behind...


Two of my friends, independent of each other, have sent me the following links about a new answer to the eternal questions:

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster

http://www.venganza.org/index.htm

My favorite part is the graph about the average global temperature vs. the number of pirates. Who knew?!

Posted by lalcorn in Stuff on the Web at 14:50 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (2)
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Peter Jennings Has Died


NY Times story. I have to admit, I'm very sad. I liked his style, certainly far better than Brokaw or Rather.

Posted by lalcorn in Stuff on the Web at 12:21 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
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Tuesday, August 2. 2005

Blog Ennui


Liza just sent me a link which helps explain my Blog Depression.

Well, that and the fact that I haven't been home for more than two days at a time for WEEKS!

:-)

Posted by lalcorn in My Rants at 21:34 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)
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Monday, August 1. 2005

Well done, LU!


Seems that Library Underground is a Site of the Month over at Grateful Web.

Posted by lalcorn in Library Stuff at 10:59 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
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