No maps for these territories

Steve Case’s (of AOL fame) new investment company, Revolution, recently bought out Flexcar. I am unsure what to think of this. On the one hand, Flexcar badly needs the money; on the other, ugh. Plus, a domain like “revolution.com” is just kind of intrinsically galling. —- A proposal for offering the public validity metrics on [...]

Overheard last night: Waitress: Like, I totally forgot to ask if you wanted change. It was only, like, a couple of bucks. Is that, like, ok? Customer, out of earshot of waitress: Ohmigod, totally tacky! —- Young teenage girl in bookstore #1 (referring to, I think, The OC): So, like, the second time I watched [...]

controversy over school libraries comes to my former hometown. http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=05/08/27/0910231 Whee. what I like best from the original news story: “A group calling itself Parents Protecting the Minds of Children was formed last week, at Taylor’s suggestion, to help rid the libraries of sexually provocative material.” (Fayetteville, Ar). Protecting their minds… from thinking?

Today, over a fine, fine pint of IPA, Mr. and Mrs. and I discussed (among much else) my trip chronicles. They requested a synthesis, a condensation, a summation — something to bring it together: “your posts were really just a travelogue, without much on what they meant,” said; “they were field notes,” agreed. They’re right, [...]

thoughtfully sends along this link about wikimania: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article307970.ece in which I am named and quoted. Um. While I am flattered that the reporter interviewed me and all, I take issue at the following: 1) the jewelry thing, while true, makes me sound totally dorky. 2) I am not an “assistant librarian” — hell, I’m not [...]

Five things to be happy about today: 1) that I am updating using the wireless that’s abundantly available in the SPL central branch. I have theorized about this library endlessly, along with everyone else I know, but I’ve only really begun to use it lately, since I’ve been staying downtown. The more I use the [...]

Internets (colloquialism) I heart you, Wikipedia.