Today I attended a session at the PA Bar Institute that was supposed to share 60 tips in 60 minutes. We didn’t quite get to hear all 60, but there were some fun things I wanted to share with you all (and some productive things I’m going to test before I share).

1. The USB Beverage Cooler from CoolIT - keep your drinks cool using the power from your computer.
2. The USB Turntable - rip your old records to MP3s so you can listen to them on your MP3 Player.
3. The CellStik - backup your cell phone and/or easily transfer data from your old phone to your new one.

How neat are those? While I was searching for these URLs I saw that engadget & Gizmodo had already posted about them - but those are 2 blogs I didn’t subscribe to - until today!

Oh, and the presentation was by Ross Kodner from MicroLaw - a great speaker if you’re looking for some continuing legal education!

I have no idea how to make this post anything but personal - but I’ll try.

Looking for a fun RSS feed to subscribe to? Try the Daily Puppy - and while you’re at it check out my little angel - she’s today’s Daily Puppy.

Hey I did a good job with that hehe

My husband just sent me this comic.

Okay I found out about this from Stephen Abram’s site (who read about it on Gizmodo) - Library 2.0 commentary aside - this is way cool & and a little funny.

Ipfini offers the ability to program your soda with up to 32 different combinations. The patent-pending bottle design has aroma, flavor and color buttons on the side. The bottle is filled with basic carbonated high-fructose water and the user hits additives to taste. For instance, press the cherry flavor button and add the lime smell. One can only assume you shake the bottle vigorously to mix and then hand it to an unsuspecting cow-orker and enjoy the show. After hearing it was programmable, the obvious questions arose: where are the caffeine buttons and will it run Linux?

OH MY GOODNESS!! This is just too much fun to pass up trying at least once!

There is a lively discussion going on over at Walt at Random - and I have to share my favorite response with you all. John Blyberg posted this “Let's just settle this the old fashion way once and for all. :)” How funny is that? You know I’ve heard the term Google fight before - and I thought I had seen the Google Fight site - but apparently I hadn’t.

At CIL last week one of the presenters (I can’t remember which) mentioned Second Life. Don’t know what that is? Well it’s a massively multi-player online role-playing game - but it’s not like the others. There are no adventures, there are no dragons to slay or ogres to fight - there is only a virtual life to live.

I was actually a member of the Second Life beta test back in 2003 (I think). My husband and I would sit for hours at our computers and play together. We built a house and made online friends - we even set up our own little store. Back then things were different though - back then we only had Second Life dollars to play with - not now apparenly people are playing with real money - up to $1000 a month in real money!

What does this have to do with libraries? I’m not sure - I guess we’re supposed to join in the fun and create a virtual library on Second Life in order to advertise ourselves - but $1000 a month is more than I think we need to spend.

Why are people spending so much? Apparently they are paying for virtual land. I’m not sure if they’re making money off of that land - but I only pay a little more than that for my actual mortgage!

What brought this up? Well I keep reading about how Linden Lab - the creators of Second Life have scored $11 million in funding - and I wanted to do a little research to find out why they were able to get funding for a game - and it looks like the reason is because of how much people are spending to play this game.

Oh Cool! Another way to show our geekdom. Visit Kiss My RSS and get your own RSS gear (shirts, mugs, bags, etc).

Thanks A Feed Is Born for bringing it to LiB’s attention - who brought it to my attention

I went to visit Web Sudoku today and saw that they have some new options … one of which is Jigsawdoku, the other an ebook maker. How nifty is that? I am always shocked at how much soduko books cost in the store - now I can make my own

Technorati Tags: soduko

This is too funny!! Thank Brian for giving me a good laugh! Check out The Blogga Song at The Laughing Librarian.

If you look real close you’ll see What I Learned Today… fly by on the screen.

A while ago people were taking this quiz (mentioned on It’s All Good) - but I figured I’d fail - so I didn’t. Today I took it and to my surprise I got a fitting score:

Aspiring Librarian
You scored 44% on knowledge of librarianship.
You’re getting there - you know more than most people about libraries. Maybe you’re starting Library School and getting yourself ready to take over the profession. Or maybe you already work in a library but just don’t know some of the history and details. But, you’re more of an aspiring librarian than a full-fledged librarian.

I wish they told me which I got right and which I got wrong - I was guessing on a lot of questions.

Let me start by saying my husband thinks I’m crazy. This morning I was reading through some of my blogs and got all excited because Chris tagged me!

So here I go:

Four jobs I've had:

1. Salesperson (candle store, jewelry store, best buy)
2. Human Resources (student) assistant
3. Web Assistant
4. Web Manager

Four movies I can (and do) watch over and over:

1. Few Good Men (wore out 2 copies)
2. You’ve Got Mail (wore out 1 copy)
3. French Kiss
4. Finding Neverland

Four places I've lived:

1. Edison, NJ
2. Bryn Mawr, PA
3. Huntingdon, PA
4. Havertown, PA

Four TV shows I love (yes, I’m a girl):

1. Gilmore Girls
2. Friends
3. Ally McBeal (where are the darn DVDs?)
4. Scrubs

Four places I've vacationed:

1. London, England
2. Rome, Italy
3. Florence, Italy
4. Venice, Italy

Four of my favorite dishes:

1. Eggplant Parm
2. Mom’s Baked Ziti
3. Dad’s Eggs
4. Any sushi platter

Four sites I visit daily:

1. google.com
2. bloglines.com
3. gmail.com
4. tagyoureit.org

Four places I would rather be right now:

1. Italy (can’t you tell)
2. Somewhere warm (too cold here)
3. At home with my puppy & hubby
4. In bed watching one of my TV shows or movies

Four books (or series) I love:

1. The Gate to Women’s Country (Sheri S. Tepper)
2. Harry Potter
3. The Thursday Next Series (Jasper Fforde)
4. Poisonwood Bible

Four video games I can (and do) play over and over:

1. The Sims 2
2. Civilization 4
3. Warcraft 3
4. Dungeon Keeper 2

Four bloggers I am tagging:

1. Information Wants To Be Free
2. Open Stacks
3. Baby Boomer Librarian
4. Gamecrafters’ Guild

A while back I mentioned fun logo making sites - but what if they don’t have the font you need? Lifehacker pointed me to the TV/Movie related fonts at TypeNow.

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 most of my audience is reading.

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 other popular logos.

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.

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

My newest addiciton is Sudoku! I’ve been playing online at Web Sudoku - and today I found another version at Games for the Brain. Can’t wait to try out the other games listed here. Thanks ResourceShelf for pointing out this site.

How did I miss this? I was just reading on Wired about LibriVox. What a cool idea!

LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain, and then we release the audio files back onto the net (podcast and catalog). Our objective is to make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the internet.

There’s not much there yet, but if you’re good at reading out loud you should totally volunteer! I’m fine a speaking when there is no script - but when I try to read outloud I do a terrible job

The other day I turned on my PC and Konfabulator told me I had to upgrade to Yahoo! Widgets. I followed the instructions and downloaded the new release … I have been way to busy to browse for new Widgets, but I have noticed that Yahoo! Widgets isn’t opening up when I start Windows - like Konfabulator was … and that my handy PHP.net Search widget isn’t supported anymore … I can still use it - but at my own risk. Oh well, guess we’ll just have to wait and see how this new release works out for me.

Why does this site look so familiar?

Fuzzster is apparently a new site “where our fuzzy pets can meet other fuzzy pets and owners”. It’s a cute idea and I love looking at fuzzly little pets (like my Coda Bear) … but this site looks just like another pet site I stumbled upon recently. Do you know what I’m talking about??

Still looking for holiday cards? Why not buy cards that will help others. Cards That Give lists charities that sell holiday cards.

This new invention will be a great help to those of us who can’t keep up with our RSS feeds … the rsstroom reader is:

a bathroom gadget that prints news feeds onto your T-P - that’s right, your TOILET PAPER! The best part is the “biometrics” toilet seat that’ll figure out who you are based on your weight and prints the news you want - not your roommates tabloid garbage.

LOL! This is too funny! And very professionally done, there is even a Press Release for you to read.

At IL05 Steven Cohen commented on how everything is in Beta, well check out this new Beta product: GoogleGulp.

At Google our mission is to organize the world's information and make it useful and accessible to our users. But any piece of information's usefulness derives, to a depressing degree, from the cognitive ability of the user who's using it. That's why we're pleased to announce Google Gulp (BETA)™ with Auto-Drink™ (LIMITED RELEASE), a line of “smart drinks” designed to maximize your surfing efficiency by making you more intelligent, and less thirsty.

Too funny!