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Introducing a 7-year-old to the concept of “library”

on November 30th, 2007 in Books, Comics, Librarianship, Links by | Comments Off

Modern Day Prometheus or why my boyfriend is the greatest guy ever. Can you believe I get to kiss this man? My first question was a slightly judgmental “where were his parents during all of this?” I’m remembering week after week of library visits when I was a kid. We…

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I Brake for Library Sciences

on November 25th, 2007 in Avenging, Librarians in popular culture, Links, Products by | 2 Comments

It’s the Holiday Season, which means new stuff in the Librarian Avengers Store. I’m pimpin’ some new oval stickers this year. They look just like those European country abbreviation stickers that folks have on their Toyotas. Only these are cooler, because they signal that you are secretly a member of…

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Advantages to dating Librarians

on June 22nd, 2007 in Comics, Librarians in popular culture, Librarianship, Links by | 6 Comments

The webcomic xkcd has the goods on librarians this week: The Advantages to Dating Librarians It’s true. It’s so so true. The librarian Achilles Heel. Geeks: check out the alt tags for more funny.

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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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Portfolio

on April 10th, 2007 in Interface design, Links by | 6 Comments

Got me a portfolio. It’s just screenshots right now. I’ll continue working on it tonight. Suggestions welcome. I haven’t even checked it out on non-OS X/Firefox machines yet…

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Scientist, Model, Library tourist

on April 7th, 2007 in Avenging, Library tourism, Links by | 3 Comments

Elyse Sewell came in second place on America’s Next Top Model. I know this because I spent two solid days watching it on YouTube this winter while battling the flu. Why should you care about Elyse Sewell? Well, she’s funny, she has a livejournal, she’s smart as hell, and she…

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Bill Nye, the cable guy

on April 5th, 2007 in Links by | 4 Comments

I spent five fun-filled hours waiting for the cable guy to show up and give me Internet this afternoon. The next-door neighbor figured out that I’ve been freeloading her wireless, and locked down her router. Curse you bittorrent! Curse your deadly allure and telling bandwidth consumption!

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Gutting the Endangered Species Act

on March 27th, 2007 in Environment, Links by | 6 Comments

Salon has obtained an internal 117-page draft proposal by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The document proposes to: “limit the number of species that can be protected and curtail the acres of wildlife habitat to be preserved. It shifts authority to enforce the act from the federal government to…

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