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- 40065 Kentucky personals, 20 male, registered at Jul,11 2004 |
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- Kentucky personals, 22 male, registered at Jan,30 2004 |
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- nice out going guy looking for a nice girl |
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- Anyone else despise the dancing old man commercials for Six Flags? Well, so does this dude.... |
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- Sciopero della fame contro il muro dell'apartheid ad A-Ram - Palestina |
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- Despite the Boston Police Department's stated commitment to protect people's First Amendment rights during the DNC, the BPD has... started a campaign of preemptive action that could chill protest participants' lawful speech activities during the Democratic National Convention (DNC). |
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- Here's an article from the New York Times, by Alan Wolfe that compares modern day weblogs to "the pamphleteers of bygone eras. While the method of delivery may be new, the idea is anything but. "Whether or not you can tell a book by its cover, you can generally tell a country by its books. If most political books are any indication, the way we argue now has been shaped by cable news and Weblogs; it's all ''gotcha'' commentary and attributions of bad faith. |
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- Fang-Face writes "There is a Charles Haynes commentary on the recent SOFA report at First Amendment Center. There's isn't really anything new in it, but he does examine some amusing dichotomies. For instance: Despite this readiness to rein in the press, many Americans still want to know more about what the government is doing. Half of those surveyed, for example, say they have "too little access" to information about the federal government’s war on terrorism. |
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- With $2 million due in fines, some 26,000 items missing from their collection, and over 6,000 overdue accounts, the Wichita, KS library has decided, [at long last, it would seem] to engage the services of a collection agency to help get their money. "The worst offender is a reader who checked out 124 items nearly a decade ago and never returned them. The price of those items and fines add up to $2,430.66. Five other people owe more than $1,000. |
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- Here's another one of those quasi-feel-good articles that deals with how librarians are reinventing themselves. It gives all of us a pat on the back for a job well done. Although it focuses on the demands for, and benefits of, special librarianship, the impact that technology has had on the profession, as a whole, is pretty universal. "Gone are the days of the Dewey decimal system, linoleum floors and musty volumes. Now, being a librarian takes Internet savvy, organization, keen business sense and a touch of a detective's skills. |
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- TrueCrime writes "Update on Providence Public Library – Community Joins Workers in Fight!By Library Defense reporter TrueCrimeCalling themselves Library Defense (http://www. provlibdefense. org), an organized group of Providence Public Library workers has been battling the administration’s plans to drastically cut staff and services from the library system. |
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- This fascinating nugget comes by way of rebecca's pocket: Ann Arbor, Mich., is the home of an extraordinary private collection that claims to house an example of every new consumer food or health and beauty aid product introduced in North America since the early 1970s. Supermarket-style shelving in a former car dealership holds around 80,000 items, with 500 more added every month. The archive is owned by NewProductWorks, a consumer-products consulting outfit, whose employees reportedly spend much of their time trolling retail stores for new items. |
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- Lee Hadden writes "There is an interesting article on Arabic language manuscripts held in Mauritania in the December 2003 issue of Saudi Aramco world. "Mauritania's Manuscripts" is written by Louis Werner and photographed by Lorraine Chittock. There is a wonderful slide show available that shows the uses of these antique manuscripts in Mauritania's libraries. "Mauritania is known throughout the Arab world-but hardly at all in the West-for its enormously rich heritage of Arabic manuscripts, many brought from the Arab East by pilgrims returning from Makkah, some recopied from those imported sources by students in the Qur'an schools that once flourished throughout the country, and others composed by Mauritania's own jurists, poets and historians." '"The traditions of scholarship in Mauritania during the past three centuries, albeit profoundly linked to the medieval epoch, are probably the richest in West Africa," says Charles Stewart of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, an expert on the country's early modern history. |
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- Many people familiar with the University of Washington campus believe that sexually explicit photos and videos available at DormAngels.com were shot at the university's library and at other campus locations. The site owners, two former UW graduates, deny that they actually used UW venues for the shoots. This appears to be in conflict with the following statement from the site: 'We're really sorry these pictures didn't turn out better, but we couldn't use the flash because we really didn't want to get caught by the UW police,' reads the text accompanying a series of photos apparently shot in Suzzallo Library. |
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- GregS* writes "Sci-Fi channel mini-series based on Ursula K LeGuin's Earthsea books coming in December. Description here: http://www. scifi. |
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- Here's an article about encyclopedias from Voice of America that talks about the viability of encyclopedia publishers that see technology as a seamless part of the way they do business. According to Paul Kobasa, general manager for World Book, "We don't see the Internet as a threat… it's an opportunity," he said. "There are things we can present to our readers on line that we're unable to do in print. And we're more than happy to take advantage of that medium, on-line or on CD. |
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- Here's an opinion piece in the New York Times by Andrew Solomon in response to the survey released by the National Endowment for the Arts which indicates that Americans are no longer reading for pleasure. Solomon compares the "crisis in reading to a crisis in national health and a crisis in national politics." He goes on to say; "...It is important to acknowledge that the falling-off of reading has to do not only with the incursion of anti-intellectualism, but also with a flawed intellectualism... |
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- Roland Honekamp reports that a German IT publisher has adopted the Creative Commons licensing model and is making two books available free for download. Read more if you're interested. |
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- Lori Bell writes "September 11: Libraries Remember Through Book Discussions on Courage The Bensenville Public Library, the Alliance Library System, and the Mid-Illinois Talking Book Center are pleased to announce a series of online interactive book discussions which will take place on Saturday, September 11 in commemoration of September 11, 2001. People of all ages and nationalities are invited to participate in this exciting series of discussions to be held on the Internet. The general theme of the discussion of this set of books will be how people (and other creatures) manifest courage, especially in light of the events related to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. These will serve as a special Edition of the Meting of the Minds Online Book Discussion Group coordinated by the Mid-Illinois Talking Book Center. |
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- Genuinely nice story about a librarian who works in a Sacramento-area (CA)low-income neighborhood library where he does his best to provide books, services and a "safe haven" for local users, despite vandalism and poverty. Derek McHenry grew up in a similar neighborhood and found "sanctuary" in his neighborhood library while he was growing up. No matter what goes on outside," cautions McHenry, of the world beyond, "once you come in the door, you are going to be treated with respect. A lot of these kids come from single-parent families. Some of them are not used to being treated with kindness. |
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- According to this story in the Toronto Globe and Mail a robotics laboratory in Spain is working on a prototype of a robot librarian. It is to come with a speech-recognition and seeing capacity that should allow it to make out the name of a book when spoken to it and to identify the title on the shelves. When it becomes mobile, it will deliver the book to the eager reader. Lots of other tidbits about similar librarian-replacement projcts happening around the globe. One question for our northern pals: |
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- search-engines-web writes "Security flaws as well as curiosity has seen a slight decline from the 96% high of surfers on Internet Explorer." "It's the first time that we've seen a sustained trend downward for [Internet Explorer]," said Geoff Johnston, an analyst with WebSideStory. "We have a very steady trend. It's been about a month, and every day we have a steady incremental change." [PC World] |
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- search-engines-web shares this article about Google's targeted job ad techniques. Maybe they could hide librarian job ads in MARC records and reference books? Or in the search results of particular database queries? |
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- search-engines-web writes "Remember this story? Turns out that one of the people working on the search engine development is a former AltaVista employee and has been arrested on charges that he stole proprietary technology from AltaVista. Suspect in AltaVista hacking case works at Microsoft [Seattle Post-Intelligencer] Man Arrested In Search Engine Hacking Case Is Microsoft Employee [KIRO Seattle] |
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- Christina writes "According to a recent press release the New York Times will offer pullout news print serializations of 4 classic novels this summer. The books, The Great Gatsby, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Like Water for Chocolate, and The Color of Water, will each be published over the course of a week. The first one starts on July 12. See also the Publishers Weekly story (v.251 n. |
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- Anonymous Patron writes "The New York Times reports that portions of the historical record concerning President Bush's military service were destroyed during a project to salvage deteriorating microfilm. No paper backups could be located. Cf. Nicholson Baker, Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper (2001). |
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- Search Engines writes "Four months ago this story covered some new doings at Yahoo, now, the NEW Yahoo is offering equally impressive, free, time saving helpful "shortcut" search tools: tools. search. yahoo. com/shortcuts. |
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- Charles Davis writes " Story from BBC NEWS on an erotic letter sent by author James Joyce to his wife has fetched a record ВЈ240,800 at auction in London. The correspondence to Nora Barnacle made the highest price ever reached for a 20th Century autographed letter, Sotheby's said. Smashing its ВЈ60,000 estimate, the letter in which Joyce describes Nora as a "wild-eyed whore" was bought by an anonymous bidder. " |
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- Search Engine Guy sent in This One that says It's getting nasty on the Internet, where the campaign for president is setting new highs in low blows. One More says Cut-throat spontaneity and caricatures - that were once edited out of campaigns or kept as secret humor - are now being manifested due to the communication changes and new social norms brought about by popuarity and frankness of the web. |
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- Charles Davis writes "The Guardian Reports modern politicians don't read. Tony Blair may claim Ivanhoe as his favourite book, but he is clearly a John Grisham man. His bibliophilic reputation is unlikely ever to recover from the tale of him meeting Ian McEwan at a party and telling him he had several of his works hanging on the walls of Number 10. Margaret Thatcher said she liked to "re-read" Frederick Forsyth novels on holiday. William Hague had a weedy fondness for The Wind in the Willows. |
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- An Anonymous Patron writes "Just in case you're not sick of hearing about Seattle libraries, Here's An Article on the new library in Beacon Hill, a Seattle 'hood that is getting a new 10,800-square-foot library this week. After a long wait and local input, the design is aimed at unifying the diverse community through the common theme of nature. The building features wood, stone, a sweeping roof that allows in natural light, and natural paint colors such as tan, green and a brick red to match the building next door. The Seattle Post Intelligencer is also covering the Rem Koolhaas-designed Central Library again, with yet another new story on how things are running 2 months after opening. Since the building opened to the public in May, it has seen crowds that spiked as high as 20,000 people per day (currently estimated at 12,000 to 15,000), far greater than the 4,000 to 8,000 predicted. |
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- Pope John Paul plans to return a 16th century icon to Russia to try to help thaw frosty relations between the Vatican and the Russian Orthodox Church, his spokesman said on Saturday. The Kazan Madonna, a Russian icon the Vatican has possessed since the early 20th century, will be handed over to the Moscow Patriarch Alexiy II in August. |
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- Совместное русско-французское предприятие “Автофрамос”, организующее на мощностях завода “Москвич” выпуск автомобиля Renault Logan, заключило договор с Борским стекольным заводом о поставке стекол для новых автомобилей. Как отмечает газета “Ведомости”, Борский завод станет первым отечественным поставщиком деталей для “русского Renault”. О заключенной сделке сообщил публике министр по делам внешней торговли Франции Франсуа Лоос. Однако источник в Renault пояснил, что речь идет лишь о “предварительной договоренности”, пишет газета. При этом, по мнению источника, окончательный контракт может быть подписан “уже на нынешней неделе”. |
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- Временное правительство Ирака приняло решение объявить в ближайшие два дня амнистию иракским боевикам, сообщают в понедельник иракские электронные СМИ со ссылкой на президента страны Гази аль-Яура. Как пишет РИА "Новости", под амнистию подпадут только те боевики, которые, по словам президента, не совершали ранее особо тяжких преступлений рецидивного характера. Амнистия, в частности, не распространяется на лиц, обвиняемых в убийстве, захвате заложников и терроризме. После объявления амнистии в Ираке в силу вступит закон о смертной казни. |
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- Im intelligent, attractive, spontaneous, and exciting. im looking for a girl who i can bond with my IM is imperium2600 my email is imperium666 @ linuxmail.org |
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- Boston Massachusetts personals, 29 male, registered at Jul,12 2004 |
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- North Adams Massachusetts personals, 23 male, registered at May,07 2003 |
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