November 2011
10 posts
McDonaldland
citationneeded:
Additional family were revealed in a McDonaldland VHS tape “The Legend of Grimace Island”: Grimace has an unnamed mom, an unnamed dad, a grandma named “Winky”, a great, great grandma named Jenny Grimace, and might have a brother named “King Gonga,” who is the king of all Grimaces.
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KING OF ALL GRIMACES!
“I have come to appreciate more and more that technology itself is one way to...”
– My favorite prof. here won an ALA teaching award. Man, it’s great when people who actually deserve it get recognition. Here he pretty much encapsulates why I’m doing what I’m doing, and how I want to do it.
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Bloomberg = Monty Burns
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They sing without juicers. They sing without blenders. They sing without flunjers, capdabblers and smendlers!
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The First Amendment (unabridged)
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Just reminding Mayor Pennybags that the First Amendment has multiple clauses and all.
A Library Just Got Trashed by a City Government....
The ALA and our profession in general have been giving the Occupy Library folks great press and encouragement so far. However, talk was cheap until now. Now that the chips are really on the table, how will they respond? I’ve grown more and more discouraged with the white-upper-middle-class, conflict-averse, duck-and-cover mentality of this profession the more I’ve learned about it....
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#OWS is dead. Long live #OWS
THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/education/edlife/... →
lastyearsfad:
I got into another argument about CS programs and women today - I think a relatively unexplored aspect of getting women into STEM majors/careers is the intensity of the programs at colleges.
I find it absolutely fucking stupid that I refused to study CS in college - I feel like I am a giant neon sign advertising how badly broken the system is, if I am so successful at work and...
“[…] I’ve grown up through both geek and jock culture and they’re both the same....”
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Geek Feminism, “On Not Being OK” (via violettabellocchio)
On top of what is listed above, I get the strong feeling that a lot of nerdy/geeky types are incapable of accepting the fact that they might be utterly wrong when they make judgments about other people/say stupid shit and that they simply...