Archive of Freebase

Daily Hilarity

on December 2nd, 2009 in Freebase, Life, Linden Lab, Video games by | 2 Comments

Things today that made me laugh until I snorted: Translating a boring work conversation into hula Faygo Rock n Rye soda exploding in a Last Stand sort of way inside Chuck’s motorcycle case Blurting out “stranger danger!” when surprise-hugged by my friend Rayne in the subway Getting my butt handed…

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Freebase Hack Day II: The Return of Hack Day

on June 23rd, 2009 in Avenging, Cataloging, Digital Library, Freebase, information science, Research Obsession, San Francisco by | 2 Comments

Librarian? Data junkie? Obsessive compulsive? Come to the Freebase hack day on July 11, 2009 here in SF. There’s food, drinks, an excellent network, plenty of powercords, and a nice room full of geeks to chat with. It’s a fun way to dive a bit deeper into making cool data…

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Choked on his own vomit…

on June 18th, 2008 in ALA, Avenging, Cataloging, Digital Library, Freebase, Librarianship, Links by | 3 Comments

I love Freebase. Here’s a list of people who died via vomit inhalation. Don’t say I never gave you anything.

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Another Data Mob at Freebase – Ethnicity

on May 27th, 2008 in Avenging, Cataloging, Digital Library, Freebase, information science by | 1 Comment

Wanna enrich some data? Got OCD? Tired of trying to get a foot in on popular Wikipedia entries? Try helping out with Freebase. It’s a database. Of stuff. Free stuff. You can mush it however you like. You can compare stuff. You can edit it. And this week? This week…

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Shh. “The Library” is the subject of the Freebase Data Mob

on April 16th, 2008 in Avenging, Freebase, Librarianship, Tech by | 1 Comment

I’m a librarian by ethnicity, if not profession these days, and there’s nothing I like better than free information. Free as in beer and free as in speech. Which is why I like Freebase. Freebase is a free database. Of data. On everything. Everything in Freebase is publicly available, including…

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