I Am Bored
This site offers a bunch of sites to browse when you are bored. It is updated regularly and offers short film clips, catchy songs, cool web sites, online quizzes, and much more. Definitely a perfect place to waste your time.
U Got Games
Collection of free online flash and java games.
Fall Foliage
Intellicast offers this national fall folliage guide with information on when peak colors will occur and what highways will be best. There is also information on fairs and festivals and an explanation of why leaves change color in fall.
Sheboygan-Press: Check it out: Library automated
Sheboygan’s Mead Public Library becomes the first in the state to go to a fully automated checkout system. It would be interesting to see how that works out for them. I am amazed that they are planning to move almost all of their circ to the machines where right now they do 91% of their circ manually. I am hoping that the comment of them being on the bleeding edge doesn’t come true.
Booker Prize
Finalists for the Booker Prize have been announced:
Bitter Fruit by Achmat Dangor
The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Master by Colm Toibin
I’ll Go to Bed at Noon by Gerard Woodward
Asking library filters to do the impossible
This is a nice piece on the problems that exist with filtering software and the fact that simply requiring filtering doesn’t solve the overall problem of pornography or making the Internet safe for children.
LIScareer News
LIScareer has a brand new blog that offers information for librarians on career management.
2004 University Press Books Selected for Public and Secondary School Libraries
This bibliography is now available online. It is a collection of recommended University Press books for public and school libraries.
Via Schooliblit.
Salvador Dali Art Gallery
Showcase of Dali’s work, plus a collection of Dali sites and information on surrealism.
Pluck is my newest online toy. I just started using it a couple of days ago and it has completely replaced Bloglines for me. Pluck has many added features that give it the right to call itself “TIVO for the web.” In order to understand Pluck you really have to try it, but it is a lot of fun and will change the way you surf!
There have been a lot of positive reviews of Pluck online, including CNet, The New York Times, and SearchEngineWatch. This is truly a must-try application.
The only drawback is that it only runs on IE, and I had been almost entirely using Firefox. Sigh.
