I grabbed this photo from my Information School’s 75th anniversary website. Which I designed. A long time ago. Before I discovered that flexible CSS-layouts make everyone’s lives better. Anyway, I love these librarians. The photo was from the “campus life” section, and I’ve just got to say: If you are…

Have you seen the ALA’s new Radical Militant Librarian buttons? Me too. I liked the concept, but not the design. So I made some of my own. Ain’t Capitalism grand? As usual, all proceeds go to a combination of non-profits and grocery bills.

It’s sweeps week here at librarian enterprises, so here’s some links about anthropodermic bindings. For those of you who were asleep during The History of Books and Printing, that’s books bound in human skin. Because if you intellectualize it, it’s not icky. (from boing boing) Speaking of books bound in…

This is why librarians need liquor. Librarians ‘suffer most stress’ from BBC News. (Thanks Philip!)

Hey avenging librarians… A few weeks ago, Bill Harmer wrote a letter asking for our help. You may remember Bill as the founder of the Rock n Roll library tour that was featured on This American Life. I wrote about the show here. Bill wants to take the Rock n…

My friend Maysan Haydar has always been cool. She introduced me to Bratmobile and Swing dancing back when such things were hip. She got a tongue ring before everyone else. She was the first person I knew to dye her hair purple. She escaped from Flint, majored in Linguistics and…

I like Dorothy’s Donation Derby almost as much as I like her comic Cat and Girl. If you send her money, she does a small drawing to show how she spent it. The result is an autobiographical comic blog with snippets of funny dialogue and moments from her life. Today…

Last year I attended the Bloggies at the South by Southwest Interactive conference. The presentation was wonderfully low-budget, like a high school assembly. But, oh THE FUNNY. Not only were funny people doing the presenting, there was a huge screen next to the stage showing the IRC conversation about the…