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Did you know there are Christmas decorations hanging above the ruined streets of Haiti? That is what I learned this morning while reading the most recent entry from my friend and colleague Cindy’s blog, Dispatches from Haiti. Cindy is in Haiti for four weeks working as a communications officer for a not-for-profit called HelpAge. She [...] I’ve mentioned I love an internet quiz. What I really love is an intelligent internet quiz, like this one from Pew Internet & American Life on Internet “typology” called Where Do You Fit? I took an older version of this quiz about a year ago, but by the time this blog started it was old news. [...] I know I’m not (thanks for the genes, Dad). I spent the first three weeks at my current job with a broken spell checker, and I can feel the horror of that discovery. Despite my certain answer to the question, I couldn’t resist this quiz I ran across while looking for business writing guides (via Business [...] I ran across this Virginia Quarterly Review article Friday night (via kottke.org) about a tiny town in Argentina with a large albino population. Even though I was dead tired and the article was quite long, I read the whole thing, riveted to my chair. It wasn’t just my recent trip to Argentina that drew me in. [...] They are few and far between, but good librarian jokes do make it into the comics. Pearls Before Swine, Dilbert, and Frazz have had a few good runs, and there’s always Unshelved. I’m unfamiliar with the web comic xkcd, but Advantages to Dating Librarians has been circulating the library blogosphere for a few days, and has [...] Wow – Allegra has been posting like crazy. I’m still here though, and I thought I’d get in on the fun by sharing some enjoyable links: A thorough amalgamation of Summer reading lists. Enjoy! |
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