Archive of Humor

Middle Ages Helpdesk

on March 21st, 2009 in History, Tech, User Interface Design by | 1 Comment

This is causing great joy among our phone support people at work. New technology can be so troublesome!

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Procrastination fodder

on March 20th, 2009 in Comics, Links by | 5 Comments

Got something important to do? Great! You can put it off indefinitely by following these handy links. Please Insert Your Time Here… Lucy Knisley comics – Don’t just read this one. Read them all. Her art is wonderful to look at, and the comics’ content swings from humor, to storytelling,…

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iMirror

on March 11th, 2009 in Tech by | 2 Comments

Who needs the bathroom mirror when you’ve got a built in camera on your laptop? . .

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A nerdygirl review of the Game Developers Conference

on February 5th, 2009 in ALA, Avenging, Cornell, Favorite Posts, Feminism, Interface design, Library tourism, San Francisco, Tech, User Interface Design, Video games, Women in tech by | 4 Comments

Greetings from an ethnic librarian working in the games industry! I’m posting this review of my experience last year at GDC (the Game Developers Conference) held every year here in San Francisco. It was originally part of a letter to my team here at Linden Lab, but I thought you…

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Librarian Revolution

on January 25th, 2009 in ALA, Avenging, Favorite Posts, Librarians in popular culture, Products, Shopping by | 1 Comment

“ 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…

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Librarian Avengers Shop

on January 25th, 2009 in Avenging, Products, Shopping by | Comments Off

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

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Hot Librarian Necklace

on November 7th, 2008 in Avenging, Books, Librarianship, Library tourism, Shopping by | 1 Comment

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

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Drunken blog post #3

on November 6th, 2008 in information science, Life, Linden Lab, Nerdcore Rap, Second Life by | Comments Off

The Thursday night Linden Lab whisky tasting has degraded in the traditional way. I’m surrounded by tipy nerds, discussing the glories of JQuery. One of my co-workers is wearing a shirt that reads “The Age of Consent Tour 1997″. Nerdcore rap blares from the QA office. Life is good.

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