Archive of 2007 May

SxSw Analog Tagging

on May 30th, 2007 in Avenging, Career, SxSw by | 2 Comments

More analog tagging from South by Southwest Interactive… photo by noneck I’m trying to start a trend. Conference badges need more than just geographic metadata. Together we can raise the level of schmoozy conference discourse! Grab some stickers and tag yourself! It’s your duty as a librarian!

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Yahoo! Games picks up video game based on Macauly Library sounds

on May 27th, 2007 in Cornell, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Tech, Video games by | Comments Off

NYC game developers Large Animal Games have created a downloadable PC video game based on bird sounds and expertise provided by the Macaulay Library at Cornell’s Lab of Ornithology. Which is where I work. The game is called Snapshot Adventures. It was recently was acquired by Yahoo! games, which is…

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Dr. Who Parody

on May 27th, 2007 in Links by | Comments Off

Turn your speakers on. Dr. Asshole . . (Happy birthday to Chassy!)

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Research obsession: Medical Students for Choice

on May 27th, 2007 in Avenging, Feminism, Research Obsession, Women's health by | 3 Comments

I’m going to show my political underpants briefly (har har. briefly.) and write about Medical Students for Choice. Lately I’ve tried to keep my politics off of this website out of respect for the wonderful diversity of people who have taken librarianship as an identity.* However, I promised to keep…

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Quick San Francisco update

on May 24th, 2007 in Career, Life, San Francisco by | 6 Comments

Interview Girl I’m in the Bay Area this week, interviewing and exploring the city for possible relocation potential. I rented a convertible yesterday and had a great drive down to Silicon Valley. I haven’t had a chance in a long time to be the blonde-in-the-convertible, and I gotta say, it…

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14 Weird things I’ve learned this week

on May 18th, 2007 in Beekeeping, Books, Librarianship, Life, Research Obsession, San Francisco, Tech by | 3 Comments

Queen Bees are expensive It’s damned difficult to find a cat-sitter in Ithaca Johnathan Lethem’s You Don’t Love me Yet is, so far, an absolutely perfect book Tom Phillips is an artist who did a really great book painting featuring fictional books with titles stolen from Shakespeare Roccapulco is a…

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Free Wi-Fi protest in SF

on May 15th, 2007 in Tech by | 3 Comments

I’m not sure I fully understand what is going on in these photos, but the one of an elderly woman holding a “WiFi Now” sign is propaganda gold.

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Thanks Drew!

on May 10th, 2007 in Avenging, Books by | 4 Comments

Drew sent me a Pastafarian Bible. Now I can properly proselytize! Unbelievers beware! Thanks Drew!

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