tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52867072009-07-11T17:43:45.032-04:00The Blog of an Open Source Librarian, in which there is no shushing.Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137069750464885304noreply@blogger.comBlogger671125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286707.post-1144636447469284402006-04-09T22:32:00.000-04:002006-04-09T22:34:07.480-04:00

I'm back on Wordpress, with a bright and shiny new version of the Invisible Library, just in time for my third anniversary. Come on Over!

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Cat pictures and even some thoughtful content are on the way-- I've been getting over a cold and busy at work, as if that's an excuse.Meanwhile, I've been geeking out over the new Doctor Who series, which is now my number two favorite show on TV, after Battlestar Galactica. I don't think it's at all too early to declare a new golden age of TV sci-fi at hand. That both these shows are

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Not satisfied to let Kansas or South Dakota hog all the crazy lime light, Georgia may use the Bible as a textbook:In the late 1700s, Congress thought enough of the Bible as a textbook that it printed 40,000 copies. But the bold effort here in Georgia to use the Bible in today's secular curricula may be about presenting it as a moral code rather than a foundation to better understand the biblical

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Jane Smiley has some words of wisdom for the recent GOP deserters who just now, this very minute figured out Bush is full of shit.You really, really need to read the whole thing. This is said often on blogs and then hardly anyone bothers to follow the link and really read the piece in question but this time, seriously. Go read it.Then you’ll understand why this part needs to be tattooed on the

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I've talked about it for months. Written vague posts abot how it's almost done and the process by which I wrote it. Well, it's now really done and available.The book I wrote for my wife as a birthday/Christmas/Valentine's day/Birthday-again present is now available online for download (as a PDF).Have a read and let me know what you think.

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My Archivist buddy, Jenny sent me this from the Archivist's Daybook:March 25 Today is celebrated as New Year's Day in the Kingdom of Gondor, for it is the anniversary of Sauron's fall. Despite his power as a wizard, Gandalf needed to perform archival research to confirm his suspicions about the true nature of the Ring, thus setting in motion the events that led to the end of the Third Age.

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Via PZ Myers, a new study that shows atheists are even more feared and hated than Homosexuals and Muslims:Even though atheists are few in number, not formally organized and relatively hard to publicly identify, they are seen as a threat to the American way of life by a large portion of the American public. "Atheists, who account for about 3 percent of the U.S. population, offer a glaring

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Elvira and I are off to Washington DC for Spring Break, so the Library will be taking a little break for a week. The rest of the liberal Coalition can fill you in on whatever I miss, so check the links on the sidebar and try not to work too hard.

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Isaac Hayes Quits South Park:Isaac Hayes has quit "South Park," where he voices Chef, saying he can no longer stomach its take on religion."There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins," the 63-year-old soul singer and outspoken Scientologist said."Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and

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Five Vermont towns vote to impeach Bush.Now if we can only make that fifty states (or I guess, 33 for 2/3 majority).Via Kevin Andrew.

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I haven't ranted about the ID crowd in a while, mostly because PZ Myers pretty much has that area covered and in a way that is deeper and more informed than I ever could be. But I was just reading John Roger's own little rant and decided I just have to put in my two cents.This anti-ID rant braught to you by the makers of Bibles and people with vapid little minds who think, gosh and golly gee

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When ABC first aired A Fistful of Dollars in the 1970s, they added a prologue, shot with a Clint Eastwood lookalike as The Man With no Name and Harry Dean Stanton as the Warden. The Man with No Name is pardoned and released, on the condition that he cleans up the small town of San Miguel. Executives at ABC thought that an American Audience wouldn't accept a hero whose only motivation was greed.*A

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Elvira and I saw Brokeback Mountain last night and two things stand out:1) It is worthy of not only the numerous Oscars for which it I nominated but also the profound hype surrounding it. And2) The Hype surrounding it is skewed by what I can only describe as a Media befuddled by ts own reductionist tendencies.This last point, I realize, needs some elaboration.Critics would have you believe that

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Middle East Times:PARIS -- The recent violence surrounding the publication in the West of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed illustrate the danger of Islamic "totalitarianism", Salman Rushdie and a group of other writers have said in a statement. Rushdie, French philosopher Bernard Henri-Levy and exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen were among those putting their names to the statement,

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So, boingboing.net has been blocked by the sole, government owned ISP in the United Arab Emerites for, disseminating information that is "inconsistent with the religious, cultural, political and moral values of the United Arab Emirates."I'd like some Neocon who supports the President's decision to hand our physical ports over to the UAE to explain this to me, because any country that bans Boing

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A friend at the Library of Congress sent my this e-mail:Billington, the Librarian of Congress, is considering a deal in which Disney would manage the reading rooms in the Jefferson Building. The idea is to install interactive exhibits in an attempt to lure "visitors" - not researchers by any means. Some of you might remember Disney's attempt to build a "historical" theme park/real estate

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George Washington was an honored veteran of two wars. Jefferson spoke three languages and wrote fluently in all of them.* Grant, it was said, could write in Greek with one hand while simultaneously writing in Latin with the other. President Bush, well, he gets his science from a science fiction author, and not even a good one:In his new book about Mr. Bush, "Rebel in Chief: Inside the Bold and

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I don't trust Dick Cheney, just on principal. I'm saying this up front so that there's no mistake: I'm biased. Still, this whole story about Dick Cheney accidentally shooting Whittington while hunting caged Quail* smells like three day old fish. Now, according to Digby, alcohol may have been involved.There's a hole in this thing so big you could double park a pair of Hummers and still have enough

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UPI:WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- President Bush said Thursday an al-Qaida's plot to attack Los Angeles was thwarted in 2002 by multinational cooperation. Bush, speaking at a National Guard Association event in Washington, said al-Qaida had planned to use Asian operatives who would hijack a commercial airliner and crash it into the then-named Library Towers in Los Angeles. The attackers, he

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