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B-I-N-G-O! (Oct 31 2003 22:59 GMT) - Yes, the Snark Hunt is running late so there's still time to get your submissions to BiteMe AT ElectricVenom DOT com. Sorry to be taking so long with it, but I'm having a diagonally 5-across starting at the top left parenting day. Thanks to Amy for reminding me I'm not alone. |
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- This hour's show is called Pork-n-Beans (Recent Variety). The main Whole Wheat Radio site is at: http://www. wholewheatradio. |
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- Got this from Syllabus Newsletter -----Original Message----- From: Syllabus@101communications-new com [mailto:Syllabus@101communicat com] Subject: Syllabus News Update for Friday, October 31, 2003. Syllabus News Update: |
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- Boo writes "Is Willard Library Haunted? A fascinating, and at least somewhat credible, old legend exists within the ancient walls of Willard Library in Evansville, Ind.: It's a living, breathing haunted house. The first reported sighting happened sixty years ago to a library employee who trekked through the snowy cold for his nightly duty. Since then, countless other employees and patrons have reported seeing the apparition, each giving an eerily similar description. |
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- I grabbed this item from the STS-L listserv this morning. The Institute of Museum and Library Services has awarded $10 million to 27 grant projects (listed here by state) aimed at recruiting and educating librarians to offset an expected shortage. In May 2000, Library Journal magazine reported 40% of America's library directors plan to retire in 9 years or less. And, according to the July 2000 Monthly Labor Review, in 1998 57% of professional librarians were age 45 or older. The March 2002 issue of American Libraries magazine showed that based on 1990 Census data almost 58% of professional librarians will reach the age of 65 between 2005 and 2019. |
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- Fang-Face writes "An Associated Press article at the First Amendment Center reports that people are lobbying the government for greater control over what private enterprise is allowed to market in video games. For my money, the article clearly demonstrates the slippery slope of fascism in action by showing how hypersensitive reactionary elements in society are not only opposed to real violence, but even violence by proxy. To quote from the article: We have a PG-rated Star Wars where a child picks up a helmet and finds his father’s severed head in it, but because you don’t see any blood ... it’s still a PG. |
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- The "Children's Choices for 2003" annotated booklist, the latest in the annual series compiled jointly by International Reading Association (IRA) and Children's Book Council (CBC), is now available. A single copy for personal use may be downloaded for free from IRA. See the site for information on purchasing multiple copies, as well as guidelines for using the list. Over 700 books published in 2002 were evaluated by approximately 10,000 school children, ages 5-13, across the United States. Votes were tabulated earlier this year, resulting in this list of the 103 top books according to the kids who read them. |
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- Lori Bell writes: "Under the leadership of the Illinois State Library Talking Book and Braille Service, the Mid-Illinois Talking Book Center and the Southern Illinois Talking Book Center are pleased to announce the opening of InfoEyes on November 3, an online information community and virtual reference service for the visually impaired. " |
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- Steffers writes: "Yahoo reports that an Israeli startup has developed a processor that uses optics instead of silicon to function faster than current processors. "The processor performs 8 trillion operations per second, [...] 1,000 times faster than standard processors."" |
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- Gary Deane writes "Here's an interesting one - an "ask an expert" outfit, made up of a community of professionals and freelancers, that donates part of its fees to public libraries and also advocates for the use of public libraries in its mission statement. And not a librarian among them... http://www.ourmailnet. |
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- Bibliofuture writes "David Rothman has a website Teleread that promotes a national digital text archive for public use. In a commentary at his blog he comments on why librarians have not already done what Amazon is doing. He points to an article he wrote that suggested some equivalent ideas to librarians. His comments are worth a look. Also the Teleread site is interesting from a librarians perspective. |
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- Anna writes "Is the Council Bluffs (Iowa) Public Library haunted? Warning: The following story contains detailed descriptions of supernatural events that might shock or disturb particularly sensitive readers. Continue at your own risk. Spirits manifest themselves in many different forms: |
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- Ánægjulegt að sjá nýtt fólk á blogginu, þetta setur aukna pressu á hressa gaurinn að standa sig. Ég verð að hrósa Gréssa be ... [1] |
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- You can do it! You've got nothing to lose, and you might find that you really enjoy writing and have something to say. |
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- There seems to have been 3 main occupation periods at the site which was used as a summer camp by groups following herds of reindeer, bison, mammoth and horses. The first group were Neanderthals from 50000 years ago onwards, then the first modern humans were here around 30000 years ago. The last group left their Creswell Points and bone carvings as well as the recently discovered wall engravings about 11-13000 years ago. Sporadic evidence of use of the caves continues through the prehistoric period. A ... |
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- Anyone know which episode has Kramer in the restaurant with his new idea for tipping? It involves putting money on the table and taking away from/adding to the pile depending on how well the waiter does. Anyone know what episode it is? Anyone have it downloaded or anything? Thanks. |
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- This is totally unrelated to anything that has anything to do with crypto, but... We here at the Cryptonomicon.Net editorial offices have become addicted to Mark F.'s blog of all things techno-cool... It has, unfortunately, recently had some troubles with DNS. |
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Dumb (Oct 31 2003 22:58 GMT) - Harvard did a study that's so stupid I won't comment on it. Jayzuz, those supposedly bright people do a lot... |
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- ¿por qué catzo no me hago limonada todos los días, si es lo que más me gusta tomar? |
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- Cathy Thomas, Food Editor for The Orange County Register, created these healthy Halloween treats for our Food Coach segment in the Eye Witness News morning newscast: |
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- It is amazing how one home was not even touched by fire while those around it burned to the ground. Or hillside shrubbery blackened just thirty feet from green trees and bushes. |
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- DEWALT and Chevy hold national cordless screwdriving contest to see who can drive 5 screws the fastest for a chance to win $1 Million. [PRWEB Oct 30, 2003] |
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- Fredag følger mandag, oktober bliver til november. Vågner stædigt hver morgen af gammel vane. Hvor pokker blev/bliver den eksistentielle nytteværdi af? Forudser at høre flg. sociale klisterord de næste 30 dage: |
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- I never thought of Don Quixote as a business novel, but after reading this, I can see where it could really help entrepreneurs. When starting... |
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- So Grady Little heads back to Florida where his lawn, neglected all summer, has grown over. He buys a new... |
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Isabel (Oct 31 2003 22:57 GMT) - This is from hurricane Isabel earlier this year, but I just now ran across the photo: [Isabel.jpg] |
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- The conditions of separated Egyptian twin boys has been upgraded from guarded to good, a doctor said Friday. Two-year-olds Ahmed and Mohamed Ibrahim are in separate rooms, but visit each other daily. |
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- As Stubob says Creswell Crags is a little lost world, as you drive in from the west the cliff faces and the lake make a welcome change from the surrounding area which I found uniformly run-down and depressing (apologies to anybody who lives locally) While you're there you can take a tour of Robin Hood's Cave, you get to wear a hard hat with miners lamp and are shown a short way into the cave by a knowledgeable guide who gives a potted history of the site and passes round various bones and flints to ... |
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- DEMOCRATIC presidential wannabe John Kerry will come armed with a shotgun when he goes hunting for votes tomorrow in the little Iowa farm town of Colo. Kerry plans a bird hunt, but the pheasants probably don't have to worry much - it's a made-for-media special and reporters are bound to give plenty of advance warning with the sound of tromping feet. In fact Kerry's biggest worry could be making sure he doesn't repeat George W. Bush's long-ago gaffe - when he first ran for Texas governor, Bush went gunning for doves and instead shot a protected kildee songbird. But it's a sure sign of changing times when Democratic wannabes like Kerry and Howard Dean feel the need to show they have hunting in their blood while courting the liberal activists who pick their party's White House nominee. |
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- More than 900 employees at Remington Arms in Ilion were given a month off for Christmas, without pay, according to an announcement made to the workers Thursday, Remington Arms officials said. This is the third time in the gun factory's history that officials have resorted to an unpaid furlough for employees at Herkimer County's largest company, company spokesman Paul Gallagher said. In similar circumstances in 1996 and 1997, he said, all of the employees returned to full-time positions after the furlough. 'We do not expect to have any layoffs,' Gallagher said. |
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- Wrapping up a two day trip through New Hampshire on Wednesday, retired General Wesley Clark said he favored safety locks on firearms as a general principle though he said he needed to review the situation more before he would make any specific suggestions on how, if elected president, he plans to mandate such an action. Clark said guns were always in his house while growing up in Arkansas , but he never touched them because his father warned they were always loaded. And even during a 35 year career in the military he said he always stored guns in an 'arms room' away from his son. |
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