Archive for April, 2007

John Porcellino, King Cat Classix signing at Tutt Library

Thu 26 Apr 2007, 4:09 pm

John Porcellino, King Cat Classix signing at Tutt Library Originally uploaded by Colorado College Tutt Library. There are a lot of things that I want to write about, but being sick and other responsibilities are keeping me away. I have a short list of “tl;dw” (for “too long; didn’t write”) posts that I have been [...]

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Millennium Control Bar

Tue 24 Apr 2007, 3:50 pm

Millennium Control Bar Originally uploaded by Hatchibombotar. The Millennium Control Bar for the Macintosh client for Innovative Interfaces’ Millennium product is the best/worst (take your pick) example of mystery meat navigation that I have to deal with on a semi-regular basis. Just what are those buttons supposed to mean? Sure, you can mouse over them [...]

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I’m not normally big on "icebreakers" but some of these ideas–from the recent Information Architecture Summit in Vegas–sound great for a conference. Nice photos, too.

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Entire post: "The New York Review of Books contains reviews written at great length by people who wish they had written the book in question and are slightly bitter about it." I love Librarian Avengers.

to del.icio.us/bevedog/see_also on Apr 24, 2007

Blogging from Pueblo

Thu 19 Apr 2007, 11:20 am

About my participation at the CLiC Spring Workshop in Pueblo, including meeting Five Weeks to a Social Library participant, Karen Pardue.

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Following Computers in Libraries 2007

Mon 16 Apr 2007, 7:04 pm

Barbara Fullerton, Sabrina Pacifici, Aaron Schmidt Originally uploaded by madinkbeard. Another year, missing another Computers in Libraries conference. As with other recent years, though, there is no real reason to feel too left out. As in years past, Nicole Engard has wrapped up a CiL OPML file that you can download and import to your [...]

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365 Library Days and the League of Awesomeness

Tue 10 Apr 2007, 11:58 pm

Sign me up for the 365 Library Days project on Flickr (thanks, Libraryman). Also, learning in public via the League of Awesomeness Internship.

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HOT: some photos for Michael Stephens

Sun 8 Apr 2007, 10:38 pm

HOT Originally uploaded by Hatchibombotar. Does Michael Stephens still say “HOT!” all the time? All I know is that I thought of him when I saw this on the Colorado College campus. I walk behind one of the science buildings usually twice a day to and from the parking lot, but I only recently noticed [...]

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This blog could be your life

Thu 5 Apr 2007, 11:50 pm

My five library blogging heroines and punk rock. Blogging changed my life.

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CSS Naked Day

Thu 5 Apr 2007, 9:04 am

If it is April 5, it means it is time for the blog to get nekkid again.

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It’s only a school play

Wed 4 Apr 2007, 12:50 pm

In which I compare state library association presentations to participating in the high school play. As we used to say, “don’t worry about it! It’ll be dark, they’ll be drunk!” I also link to some other folks who are more…on topic.

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Via Veerle’s blog, this link to letterpress porn.Well-shot short video about Firefly Press, in Somerville, MA. The voice-over is a little annoying, but worth it for the beautiful shots of type, typography, and the presses in motion.

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I missed this the first time around (in 2002) but Tim Spalding linked to it today celebrating his "new logo" in Cooper Black. If you are any kind of typeface geek you must watch this.

to del.icio.us/bevedog/see_also on Apr 01, 2007