“ Librarians see themselves as the guardians of the First Amendment… I wouldn’t mess with them. I really didn’t realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group. ” — Michael Moore, after outraged librarians saved his book To celebrate our profession’s revolutionary approach toward freedom of expression, I…

I’ve upgraded the Librarian Avengers shop, and cleaned up the products and metadata. Because EVERYONE LOVES CLEAN METADATA! Check it out.

Finally! A solution to book-banning and community standards. heh. From the webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal…

From the department of products-inadvertently-marketed-to-librarians: Hot Librarian Necklace

I have a life-threatening peanut allergy. My lungs fill up and my throat closes and WOW are nuts a bad thing. Which is why I want these vinyl “No Peanuts” stickers by Jeeto. Chuck and I have been trying to translate the word “peanut” into 30 languages whenever we go…

I spent the afternoon poking around the more obscure areas of Amazon.com (It’s snowing, I’m lazy) and I came across a distributor that sells fresh groceries. The page layout is the same as any other Amazon product, the content is just a bit…different. I love reading what other people think…

(apologies to mnftiu.cc) I visited the Cornell Dump & Run this weekend, an ingenious fundraiser that sells the cast-off detritus of graduating students. I went last year and got a pretty good idea where the good stuff was located. I made a beeline for the bags, dresses, lamps, and women’s…

So now that I live in New York, my habit of wearing all black in the summer has a certain cachet. In other states, however, there are apparently things called “summer clothes” which are pastel in hue and employ an efficient use of fabric. I discovered this while at a…