So one of these days I’ll write a blog post where I try and make sense of some trend in libraries or analyze someone else’s writing instead of just posting wacky announcements of wacky projects.

Someday.

But today, it’s wacky project time! I posted this to FriendFeed several days back, but if you haven’t seen it, I put together Classics of Library Science Mad Libs, Volume One. Fill in the blanks (lots of nouns, I know), click the button, and see what monstrosity of Library Science theory you have created.

In addition to displaying the results to you, the web page will post your creation to my Posterous account. (You might not want to go to that site until after you do the Mad Lib, as I think it’s more fun if you don’t know what’s coming.)

I have to say that Posterous is a very strange and interesting web site, the most minimal instacloudblogsite2.0 I can remember seeing. Basically, email something like text or a photo to post@posterous.com and you are pretty much done. The site emails you back to tell you where to find your post online. If you want to take the time to set up an account and customize your URL like I did, that’s great, but you don’t have to. So it’s great for something like this where I’m just emailing form results that get posted to the web almost immediately.

Since your Mad Lib creation posts immediately and anonymously to someone else’s (i.e., MY) account, it would be easy to be a jerk. Please don’t be a jerk. I reserve the right to delete anything from my Posterous page that seems jerky or in very bad taste. A little bad taste is OK. I’m more likely to be lenient if you put your real name on it, too.

The Mad Lib itself came about when I was looking at some forms that Laura was working on, and dug out my copy of Head First PHP & MySQL and looked at the first chapter which deals with simple form creation and emailing the content. Seemed tailor-made for Mad Libs. (Which I’m sure is a trademark of someone. Please don’t sue. Unlike the vast majority of mankind, I have actually purchased Mad Libs books recently for my kids.)