That’s right folks, it’s carnival time again and today we have a wide range of booths to look at:
First off we see Data Obsessed Amanda Robertson and her post on the biggest challenges to the business researcher. Although Amanda’s focus is on Business research, the issues discussed apply to almost any researcher - check [...]

I’ve been using this site for a while - but I just now realized that I never shared it with all of you. Comic Slurper is a great little tool that lets you merge the RSS feeds for several comic strips into one feed. Among the feeds - Unshelved - which I’m sure [...]

I just read about Simply Hired - Dog Friendly. It lets you search for jobs at places that will allow dogs in the office! How great is that? Of course, I doubt that there are any libraries on the list … but it’s still a nice idea!

Today I found the handiest button maker yet! Brilliant Button Maker lets you pick a border color, right box color, left box color, right box text, left box text, as well as font colors and more! I love it!

How did I miss this? If you are in the same boat as me you should check out the LISWiki - I’ll be exploring it in more detail this weekend.

I just read about this new site: Mail Big File. First off - and least imporant - I love their little logo - maybe it’s because it’s purple. Second - and more importantly - this site lets you send files up to 1 GB in size to anyone with an email address - and [...]

Just a reminder to get you carnival submissions in to me why this weekend. Email submissions to nengard at gmail dot com by Sunday January 29 at 6pm EST. Please put the word Carnival in your subject line! Submission Guidelines can be found at the infosciences wiki.

I’m presenting for GPLLA (Greater Philadelphia Law Library Association) right here at work next month. You can learn more about it on our Jenkins News page. I’ll be showing local law librarians how to find, keep up with, and start their own blogs - should be a fun afternoon.

Is now up at Infomancy. Check it out.

I will be hosting the 22nd Carnival of the Infosciences right here at What I Learned Today…
Submissions for posts from this week are due to me (nengard at gmail dot com) by Sunday January 29 at 6pm EST. Please put the word Carnival in your subject line! Submission Guidelines can be found at the [...]

I know the title is What I Learned Today… but there is something I’d like to learn. How do you get Firefox to notice that there is an RSS feed available on a page? I see the icon show in my address bar for some sites - but not for the library’s site - [...]

I just got an email from eBay telling me about a new site that’s due this spring called eBay Express. This site will be a more conventional shopping site with items that are available for purchase now. Sounds interesting - just thought I’d share.

I love StumbleUpon. I just found a couple of new toys - logo makers. Ever wonder how people make all of those Google clones? Well they might be using the Google Logo Maker - Logogle. I also found a Yahoo! Logo Maker at Logo54 - a site that lets you make a few [...]

I was stumbling and I found this interesting book search page - isbndb.com.
ISBNdb.com project is a database of books in different languages providing on-line and remote research tools for individuals, librarians, scientists, etc. Taking data from hundreds of libraries across the world ISBNdb is a unique tool you won’t find anywhere else.
It’s pretty handy. I [...]

Can be found at TangonaT … my week is quickly approaching - keep an eye out for my call for submissions.

I hate having to remember 100 different passwords - but at the same time password saving tools scare me.
I think it’s time for me to give one a try - I just read about Agatra and it sounds pretty darn handy.
Agatra is a free service that securely stores your passwords online so that they’re accessible [...]

Do you?
I am super protective of my books - I drive my husband crazy and no one wants to borrow my books anymore because there are rules But when I was in college I used to highlight passages like crazy!! I’d re-read blank pages just to find something worth highlighting - [...]

Today I got a new keyboard. I’ve been using the same ergonomic keyboard for ages now - since college - so when I got some money for Christmas I decided to splurge!
I bought the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 - and it is so pretty!
I just unpacked it and needed to write something to [...]

Does anyone remember my post from a month ago about a new pet site? I said it looked familiar - and I just found out why. Dogster has been around since 2003 - so that’s why I thought Fuzzster looked familiar.
Anyway - I made a page for my little angel on Dogster.

Ego searching just got easier with egoSurf. Enter your name and blog address and egoSurf searches Google for links to your blog. I got 3641 Ego Points - what’s your score?

WOW! This sounds pretty darn interesting. Montastic is a website monitoring service - a free service.
Features:

Get an email when your site goes down
Get an email when it goes back up
Read statuses via RSS
Fun, easy and elegant user interface
No unreasonable limit on the number of websites monitored

Sounds pretty handy - signed up!

There are 2 very handy resources I need to tell you about. One I’ve known about for a while and one I just found today.
Ever get annoyed with those automated systems where you have to hit a hundred different numbers before you get a person? Well this IVR Cheat Sheet from [...]

I saw a bunch of posts last week about Google Librarian and I just assumed that they were all about the Google Librarian Newsletter that came out in December - but you know what they say about people who assume things
Anyway, Google Librarian is a new Google site that is geared towards us [...]

Change this famous Einstein picture to say whatever you’d like.

I just got my newest issue of PC Magazine {February 7, 2006 - Vol 25 - No. 2} and thought that John Dvorak’s column entitled Much Ado over Google Book Search {page 66} (which I can’t find an online link to - yet) was very interesting.
Let me start by saying that this man is on [...]