CATS

So this Holiday Season™ we'll be taking care of not 1, not 2, but 3 sets of kitties in local households...that's a mew record for me.

Yay google labs for existing and what is perhaps 20% time?

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=television,radio,film,web&year_start=1900&year_end=2008&corpus=6&smoothing=1

Smurf Village is really addictive

Yeah just got an iPhone...

Note to Self:

Atari 2600 visualized & some blog updates

This is a little old, and maybe difficult to grok, but I think deserves it's own post

In other news, I'm saving most of these "hey check out this cool link" posts for Google Reader now, so subscribe to that feed via this handy link or even better, friend me!

New Hobby? 3D Time lapse Photography

http://www.flickr.com/photos/firrs/3335092637/

Set to HD, fullscreen and enjoy

Preview

If you use the web and excel get this now

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/cekbgkmeapobkbadclnkjfjdbpbcaobd

We'll be using this to update our TV/Broadcast section at the Resource Library into a proper relational database in instances where Needlebase  is overkill.

In other news, I'm working on a nifty project in Needle using metadata extracted from the Grateful Dead collection on the Internet Archive. So far it has just been de-duping and some keyword clean-up but I have a couple ideas for what I'm thinking of as data-centric/visualizer based "enhance" finding aid. Will publish the results when I'm done!

PS - Found this gem while combing through the archives 

Subscribed!

Fantastic blog:

http://awfullibrarybooks.wordpress.com/

Horrible News:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/opinion/03tue3.html

How's this for a mind-bender?

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/07/using_squirrels_as_a_power_source_v.html

“I figured they could be put to work,” McHugh said. And that was the acorn that grew into his second career as a kinetic artist.

Books

Enjoyed a few books this weekend and couldn't help but think "hey this is pretty handy, it's like a really big webpage that's already printed out"

heh

Mission Accomplished

Take that, dopplegängers!

Same idea, different decade

[both links found on boingboing and Make magazine recently]

Oh hey 2nd post of 2010

vacation time coming up, can you tell?

OverDrive Media, Nerd-Rage

http://www.overdrive.com/software/omc/faq.asp

Seriously, no WMA audio support for Android OR Apple? This is a bit like when I was reading a book about design (The Shape of Things) and the binding started to come apart..."hmm, what conclusions might we draw from this?"