Linksies!

[jadesfire]

I figured it was time to match my house-cleaning to some internet-cleaning and go through my Delicious account. I've got so many links saved in there it's getting silly. These are just some I thought you guys might enjoy :)

Reading the whole internet would take you 57,000 years. Fortunately, you have me to pick the best bits for you ;D

A literary cat makes library visits. And it's not alone



What IS the collective noun for librarians?

Awful library books does exactly what it says on the tin and definitely isn't drinks-safe.

Ah, if only our students were truly this enthusiastic for the library. *sigh*

Someone has too much time on their hands, but they're using it wisely: The Book: Terms of Service

The Librarian, a new take on an old idea.

Ban the Dictionary! It's got all kinds of filthy stuff in it! *waves pitchfork*

I love podfic, and audio books so this piece on The lost art of reading aloud resonated strongly with me.


If you've been on LJ any length of time, you'll know that Terms of Service are a sensitive topic. TOSBack helps keep track of changes to TOS at various sites - essential if you want to be sure what you're signing up to!



You've heard of Medicins sans frontiers? Meet Geeks Without Borders

Mapumental is a fascinating project to map the UK's public transport network. One of its first aims is to help you to find somewhere good to live for you commute to work, which sounds like a great plan. It's still in private beta right now, so it'll be interesting to see if it ever goes live.

It's a microwave for cooking baked beans, and it's powered by USB. Oh Yes.

These videos take you through 60 symbols of physics and astronomy and are little gems of knowledge.

If you haven't seen Nathan Sawaya, the brick artist, then you're missing out on some essential lego art and nostalgia.

I love optical illusions, and this is a great one.

I'm a bit behind with these, but Fifty-two stories was a wonderful project to publish a new/old short story every week. These are wonderful pieces and well worth a flick through.

World Images gives access to California State University's IMAGE project. There are thousands of pictures of everything imaginable here. A real visual treat.

For when you really, really need it: The Flounce Post Generator


Approach with caution and with your coffee well out of reach: Dan Brown's 20 worst sentences. GAH! MY EYES!!!!1!


It's possible that this baby anteater is one of the cutest things I've ever seen. Possibly.

The essential wedding accessory for all geeks: The nerdiest wedding cake toppers, ever

This guy draws on cups. 'Nuff said.

Disguise your flat bed scanner, as a book! The whole site is full of steampunky goodness. Gorgeous.

For those with a more artistic eye than me, Chromatik could be a very useful search engine, categorising by colour first.


And finally, I'm sure I must have posted these before, but just in case I haven't, have some hot library smut.

Comments

[entangled-now.livejournal.com]

Dan Brown's worst sentences! Thank you so much for that *laughs*

*browses other awesome links*

[greyias.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha... you know what's sad is when you can sympathize with some of the crazy that's spouted from the flounce generator.

Approach with caution and with your coffee well out of reach: Dan Brown's 20 worst sentences.

Why do you hurt me so?

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

Re: library cats, our local/state paper recently had a feature on local businesses with in-store pets, and they included the library cat of the state's School for the Blind. Apparently the librarians tried to re-home the cat, but the students protested because they considered the cat *theirs*. Now they have a library cat-in-training as well, so there won't be a gap when the current one gets too old. :)

I like a "catalogue of librarians."

Those Dan Brown sentences made me giggle because the man apparently has many of the problems of fanfic writers. (And some of the comments below the article are hysterical.)

When I took my mom up to her car dealership last spring, she made sure to take me into a salesman's office where there was quite a display of beautiful syrofoam cup art. It's a way to pass the day at work, I suppose!

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

This just showed up elsewhere on my flist: http://www.mcphee.com/laf/

[phoenix64.livejournal.com]

So many enjoyable links here the only way I can adequately comment on them all is to point out how long it took me to write this comment.

Regarding, "The Lost Art of Reading Aloud", I grew up in a home of readers but it was just my parents and myself and we were all kind of solitary and not terribly social. As a kid I used to spend time with a family that had six kids (spanning more than ten years, if memory serves) and no television. Though individually the kids still weren't huge readers the way my parents and I were, every night there would be a time when the mom read to all the kids. I always thought that was really nifty.