This made me giggle!

I wanted to try Wordle again. I decided to put in my resume from LinkedIn and my Publications & Presentations to see who I was according to Wordle.

My Wordle
Originally uploaded by nengard
I see this as an addicting little toy … what else can you create a Wordle tag cloud with??
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This sounds too cute not to share with you all. Orange County Library System has created a new game to promote gaming in their library:
What has the Orange County Library System been up to lately? We just made our new flash game, Citricon: Library Defender, live! Aliens have stolen the Library’s books, DVDs, and [...]

Well - real TV addicts have DVR or Tivo or some such way to get new episodes, but if you can’t afford those and want to keep up with your new TV shows, mytvrss looks pretty neat!!
Select your favorite shows below, and then click “Create feed” to generate your own personalized RSS feed. We’ll then [...]

Last night I got to hear Stephen Abram talk about the future of SLA & librarianship. First (and most important) I have uploaded my pictures to Flickr.
Stephen started with a mini rant (a good rant) about the fact that there is no proof that the book is at risk. Reading stats are going [...]

Well, maybe it’s not the best way to celebrate National Library Week, but it’s always fun to look at pictures of libraries. In the features titled: 18 Sexy Trips to the Stacks Entertainment Weekly shows pictures of scenes in libraries from 18 movies.

Well - maybe not - but it totally sounds like me sometimes!!
Via xkcd.

I followed a link from Kimbooktu regarding a new way to store my books and found this post about the amazing staircase.

The flat occupies part of the shared top floor of an existing Victorian mansion block. Our proposal extended the flat into the unused loft space above, creating a new bedroom level and increasing the [...]

I know this has nothing to do with technology or libraries - but I’m proud of my little baby so…
Look who’s on Sheltie Nation today. This is our baby Coda. And have you seen her other famous posts? One from when we moved and the other from when she was a baby
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The Library: Originally uploaded by teofilo

This is awesome! Kimbooktu posted this picture of a biker bar in New Mexico. How cool is that??
You can see what the book titles are here! I have to find this place - and buy a motorcycle

If Meebo isn’t your thing - there’s also doof. A social gaming site that I’ve been meaning to try out - but just haven’t had the time yet.
doof is all about playing games and meeting people, we like to call it Social Gaming.
Bursting with games and cool ways to meet and beat others, [...]

What a great combo:
If you’re looking for a killer app on the Internet and are unwilling to get into pornography, gaming is your best bet. So when Meebo opened their platform last month to third party developers, it was clearly only a matter of time before they let game startups in. That time has come.
Twenty [...]

My husband is an avid gamer and has tried over the years to get me to join him in his role-playing sessions - but I never get into it. Now, Terence J. Fitzgerald writes in Library Journal that I should use role-playing games to help me be a better librarian - a more playful [...]

I mentioned Dean Chickering’s opening to the EMA Conference earlier this week. In it he had a bunch of quotes about the future - including ones that people woudl probably regret saying if they were still alive (and probably do if they are). There is now a list of the Top 87 Bad Predictions [...]

So, this is what Librarian Hell looks like ….

I don’t know if these books are any good, but I do know that I know nothing of taking “good” photographs. This series of books listed on Amazon, sounds like it might be pretty interesting … maybe one of my local libraries will get it and I can check it out
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I love Vladstudio for desktop wallpapers - but I especially love their backgrounds for librarians:

Tree of Books
Google Library
Google Data Center

Browse around - you might even find more!

I just read this awesome post over at CrunchGear about smart shopping carts:
Shopping carts rigged up with a touch screens and barcode scanners might find their way into London supermarkets soon, according to Reuters. You'd simply scan an item and get a readout of how many calories, fat, and whatnot it contains. It'd be similar [...]

There is a cute comic over at Penny Arcade that asks “…so you’re saying men can be librarians?”

The latest Unshelved is just too funny not to share. Using the MAC/PC commercial theme - it starts with “Hi I’m the Internet” .. “And I’m a library”. Go check it out for the rest.

I was just handed an article in today’s Wall Street Journal titled “A Job Interview You Don’t Have to Show Up For.” Apparently some big companies are experimenting with holding interviews in Second Life!! Personally, I think it’s a bit silly - but I guess I can see the merits if the job [...]

I have to be honest - I didn’t want to be tagged in this one I don’t know if I can come up with 8 things - anyway Rachel tagged me.

I was in the color guard in high school

I moved every 3 years as a kid cause my dad got bored - now, [...]

I love it!

Hugh McLeod, gapingvoid.com (Creative Commons)

PEW has a quick quiz to help you figure out where you fit in with other Internet users. Thanks Steve for pointing it out for me.
My results are not surprising. I’m an Omnivore!
Omnivores make up 8% of the American public.
Basic Description
Members of this group use their extensive suite of technology tools to do [...]

Okay, here’s a little bit about me that you probably didn’t know. I am not a big gamer - I never was. In fact, until college my favorite games were Sim City (the original) and Oregon Trail (also the original). In college I met my husband and, gamer that he is, he [...]