Librarian's Rant

Via LISNews - Last 'Harry Potter' Film To Be Released in Two Segments

Link is to WSJ article.

Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Bros. Pictures will release its film adaption of the final "Harry Potter" book in two parts, saying doing so is necessary to stay true to the tome.

Part one of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" will open during the holiday season of 2010, with part two to be released the following summer. The first five films in the series have grossed $4.5 billion globally. The sixth movie, based on "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" is due to be released in the U.S. on Nov. 21.

A little IT levity for Harry Potter Week from Network World.

I actually made myself late to work this morning sitting in the parking lot, listening to this story from NPR and laughing.

Are Computer Keyboards Dishwasher Safe?

Morning Edition, June 14, 2007 · Studies show that computer keyboards have more bacteria than toilet seats. But it's hard to clean all those keys. So some people advocate an extreme solution: Throw your keyboard in your dishwasher.
At first glance, this seems insane. But the computer-keyboard-in-the-dishwasher advice is all over the Internet. And don't we wish it were true? My keyboard is an old Hewlett Packard that's encrusted with a kind of mysterious black grime. I thought, "Well, why not try my KitchenAid?'"

Dudes - an air can and a Clorox (tm) wipe work great!

Thanks to John D. on the LU list for the reminder to blog this...

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Thanks to Peter L. for the zombie madness!

AudioBook recommendation: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks. Great multi-voice recording - Alan Alda, Carl Reiner, Rob Reiner, Mark Hamill and others. Very thought-provoking.

I discovered this a bit ago, but forgot to post it. Flickr posts in 'real-time', linked to where in the world they're being posted from. Kinda cool, and rather distracting on a hot Monday afternoon. Here's a shot I grabbed, coming from NW Europe:

Looks like YouTube has finally caught on to a basic function of what the 'social web' and added a Friends function to their website.

I'm weez42, in case you're interested

They've probably had it for a few days...but I've been buried in New Website Launch Hell for nigh on a week. Think good launch thoughts at me on Thursday! Bah.

Via a post on the Library Underground page: a Map of Online Communities and Related Points of Interest.

I want to swim the Blogipeligo!

But I'm afraid I might simply be bobbing in the Bay of Angst.

So I'm noodling around del.icio.us trying to get an answer to a technical question and I run across the following:

For the record, I'm pissed that Stargate is being cancelled just as they add both Ben Browder and Claudia Black full time. They rock my world. But that's a geek rant for another time.

I've been asking this for YEARS, but still don't have an answer. Discover magazine provides something like one: Dude, Where's My Jetpack?

Thanks to Katie for the link.

My buddy Michael just got a new job, moved to a new state, got a new place, etc. So I got him a gift card to Bed, Bath and Beyond. He got hisself a wicked cool new coffeemaker. Very sexy!

Too, too funny! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfNfDiqAF9Q

By the way, have you watched the wonder that is the new Doctor Who? Two seasons (plus) so far, two doctors so far, one (plus) kickass companion, all so far superior to anything that came before, it's almost indescribably wonderful.

All the recent chatter on library techie listservs about MySpace and whether libraries should have a MySpace page has been mildly interesting to watch. More amusing is this Unshelved comic from last week.

Thanks to the lovely and talented Jenna for introducing me to Monk-e-mail! Just in time for my best buddy Angie's birthday. Bwahahaha!

One of my favorite web developments has been meebo.com, where you can IM without all that pesky IM software, in multiple flavors (Yahoo!, AIM, MSN Messenger). As a small startup, they've grown largely through word of mouth. However, in order to do some more 'mainstream' advertising, they created a VERY clever and amusing ad and posted it on YouTube.

Meebo: Developers Wanted - watch for one of their favorite emoticons to show.

I was noodling around (no pun intended) with my bookmarks, cleaning out some dead links, and wandered into Reasonably Clever's Lego area. Turns out Chris Doyle has allowed himself to imagine--and build in Legos--what a Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster might look like.