May 28, 2004
Jay Maynard's Tron Costume
This guy is a first ballot inductee into the "way too much time on his hands" hall of fame.
http://www.ibiblio.org/jmaynard/TRONcostume/
Overheard on metafiler, "Is there anything worse than male camel-toe?"
It's okay that I'm jealous, right?
May 25, 2004
Why I'm thankful I'm a Boston sports fan
The Sports Guy's back!
He left the Jimmy Kimmel show to return to giving us three columns a week on ESPN page 2, including this gem:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/040525
I insist you read all of his archived columns, I will not argue about this.
Here are five fantastic things that have happened during my tenure as a Boston Sports Fan.
1. The Levels of Losing defined
4. The Unintentional Comedy Rating Scale
5. The Sports Guy's back in the saddle
Someone really needs to put this guy in charge of an espn channel.
If you don't believe me, check my favorite article of all time.
May 15, 2004
chhavisachdev.com/blog/
I've spent this early evening helping Chhavi Sachdev get her own weblog up and running. Check her out at http://www.chhavisachdev.com/blog/.
So far we've downloaded Wordpress and installed it on her server. We've just finished editing her stylesheet and templates.
At some point I'll fix the links in her flash files to fit her preferred site architecture.
She's got an awesome airport hub in her house so she, I and her roomate (my colleague from MIT Libraries) are all working wirelessly on our laptops.
May 11, 2004
Games for Infogeeks
Some sneaky librarian type got the idea that they could get average joe web user to help classify images. So they went about turning it into a game. Somehow, they managed to make indexing enjoyable! I've found the game to actually be pretty good practice for my job. Scary, eh?
And if you're ever stuck and don't know how to describe an image, check out this guy's Topical Word Lists (via boingboing). You know, just in case you needed to call someone an ailurophile.
And just because I know that all this indexing will make you hungry. Here's how you can get your unix on and your grub on. Have a Pizza Party via a command line pizza orderator (via boingboing). No geek should be without it. I guess Dominoes has figured out its market. After a long day of shell scripting you just gotta have some pie.
May 03, 2004
Why You Should Fall to Your Knees and Worship a Librarian
I just created a blogroll (check the menu bar on the right). FYI, a blogroll is a list and links to other blogs that I currently read through my RSS aggregator (bloglines).
While constructing the roll I came across this site, so I added it and thought I give it its own post. Enjoy.
The Librarian Avengers (via The Shifted Librarian)
Addendum: I've used Wikipedia to provide encyclopedia references for unfamiliar terms in this entry and am going to try to continue this practice in future entries. Wikipedia is cool (you can find out about it at its entry about itself). Especially check out its self-healing systems.