I have overhauled the cow pages on aurochs.org. They now look nice and cow-like in the same style as the cow games page, which looks a bit like this page too. In particular, there is a new cow jokes page,…
The meaning of gullible
From the Urban Dictionary: gullible The only word that is not in the dictionary. Go look. I swear, gullible is not there. Worth checking.
Beast changes number
Apparently, the Number of the Beast has now changed to 616 (via comment by Jennie on Information Overlord). However, I believe the area code is still the same.
Criticism of CILIP
There have been a number of recent posts debating, and in some cases criticising, CILIP and why one would join or become a chartered member: In CILIP: What is it good for?, Information Overlord asked if you’re a member, why…
More Cataloger’s Desktop comments
The Library of Congress’s Cataloging Distribution Service is doing a survey on the development of its Cataloger’s Desktop, which they are planning to overhaul. They seem keen to rework it for the web rather than replicating the CD product it…
Library-themed weddings
Speaking as a librarian married to another librarian whose brother is a librarian I still cannot find the stomach to appreciate this library-themed wedding (via post on Autocat mailing list), although I am unusually sensitive to work-home infringements. One commenter…
Birthday
Today is my birthday. Hooray. Inspired by sil’s age-guessing quizzes, I here present some library and information science equivalents. My age is now the same as the following: The Dewey Decimal number for General encyclopedic works in English The UDC…
Stephen Fry on GNU and Linux
The two great pillars of Open Source are the GNU project and Linux. I shan’t burden you with too much detail, I’ll just make the outrageous claim that your computer will be running some descendant of those two within the…
BBC Breakfast extra content on Freeview
If you are watching BBC Breakfast on Freeview, you can get access to more in-depth news coverage by pressing the following secret combination of buttons on the remote control: Mute, 3, Text, OK Follow the on-screen instructions. To be honest,…
Happy New Year
To mark the new year, here are this site’s version of the new year’s honours for you not to be interested in. The figures for this weblog come from Blogflux Mapstats, the figures for the site as a whole come…