Try Ugly Overload.
Actually, this is pretty cute, too.
When a patron challenged, a childen’s book about gay marriage, a librarian sent her a very thoughtful response explaining why the book would remain on the shelves, available to everyone. Two great passages:
Ultimately, such labels make up a governmental determination of the moral value of the story. It seems to me – as a father who has done a lot of reading to his kids over the years – that that kind of decision is up to the parents, not the library. Because here’s the truth of the matter: not every parent has the same value system.
Your third point, about the founders’ vision of America, is something that has been a matter of keen interest to me most of my adult life. In fact, I even wrote a book about it, where I went back and read the founders’ early writings about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. What a fascinating time to be alive! What astonishing minds! Here’s what I learned: our whole system of government was based on the idea that the purpose of the state was to preserve individual liberties, not to dictate them.
Will the letter pay off?
Have you ever wanted to combine a massively multiplayer online game with surfing the net? Now there’s PMOG - the Passively Multiplayer Game. Install the PMOG toolbar on your Firefox browser and you’re all set. You’ll rack up points and badges just for the sites you visit every day. Leveling requires a little more active gameplay - placing crates of loot for others to find, mining sites, setting up portals to take players to new places, or creating missions (or mini tours of favorite internet sites). The missions might be used to create a fun learning tool, too.
I’m “artikat” on PMOG.
Patrick Smith is an airline pilot. Even he is helpless against the TSA - who stop him from brining airplane cutlery aboard.
TSA must be staffed almost entirely by particularly obtuse Bush supporters.
A new Simon’s Cat: ‘TV Dinner’.
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog starts today. You want to see it.
Hysterical, but perhaps Sunday’s Foxtrot was a little bit too obscure. I love that someone left a comment.
Just in time for a presentation about widgets, I’ve finally figured out Pipes. It’s pretty cool - it can make portable RSS displays and it can also sift through data. The interface is a lot of fun to use — pull modules and stack them together. Popfly works much the same way, but a lot of stuff seems to be broken, like it doesn’t work in most of my browsers and I can’t get the license keys I need to add Yahoo blocks to any mashups I create. Has any one had better luck? I’ve also had a lot of fun with Sprout Builder.
Another neat mission from Improv Everywhere: twins on a train. Much safer than snakes on a plane.
I’ve been trying to get this: Wiimote Whiteboard for the Mac to work. I’ve kludged a light pen of sorts, and can get the Wiimote to talk to my Mac, but I can’t quite get the Wiimote to clearly see the pen. Anyone had any luck with this? I suspect my light pen is too weak.
