from Easter eggs to Amazon

Just last week, my family & I were discussing Easter eggs in video games and DVDs. Somehow, the conversation turned to Google bombs like Find Chuck Norris, French military victories,
and the now defunct miserable failure.

So, when Amazon laid another kind of egg this Easter weekend, I wasn't surprised when the following Google bomb had immediate and huge success: Amazon Rank. [Enjoy! Kudos to the gals at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books. And don't forget to vote for their definition of amazon rank at Urbandictionary.com, and use it in your everyday speech. As in, "My principal amazon ranked me and removed the copy of And Tango Makes Three from my library."]

So, anyway, now they're blaming it on catalogers?! [No wonder RU removed the word library from one of its top-ranked programs! But I digress.] Nice try, but ahem, and #glitchmyass.

Aside from my moral outrage [and, yeah, my growing annoyance with the garbage showing up in my #Amazonfail clogged Twitter stream], I am ticked that now I can't keep up with my gadget girl neighbor and get a Kindle. How can they do this do me. Darn you evil corporations!

feeling meme-ish

Actually, I'm shamelessly copying Purple Polka, but here's what my blog looks like on Wordle:



Kind of reminds me of the first time I heard my voice on tape: "Do I really sound like that?" Except now, it's like, "Do I really blog like that??" Looks like I like sound like my middle-school son, with like the big giant, "LIKE" and all. (Go ahead and click on it, because it looks so much better up close and in person on the Wordle.net website.)

I like heart Wordle, so, I'm going to declare this a meme. Cuz, I like, you know, have all of about 3 readers. But, if you're like feeling all memey, consider yourself, like, tagged.

library hall of shame: dead links on the ALA website

I'm sorry, ALA, I am sick of your dead links, and I'm calling you out. Yes, your website redesign was a good idea (even if your new look is a bit sterile for my tastes). But, hello? What's with all of the dead links?

I am sick of all of the external dead links I'm getting from my professors and colleagues sending me to your site. Yes, I'm a MLIS candidate who knows her way around a search engine, and many pages are easily located. But what's with all of the dead links still cluttering your in-site navigation? Like this one, and this one, and this one, on this page. (I should add that I eventually found the articles I was looking for, but not through ALA's search function. I had to use (gasp!) Google.)

And, could you, like, throw us a bone...or site map?

As librarians, don't you have an obligation to make information accessible? For shame!

i missed that class too...

The ASLC Blog has a feature called, "What I Wasn't Taught in Library School." Love, love, love this post.

cleanliness is next to godliness and early literacy skills

or so it seems. My kids must be outliers.

Read the SLJ article here.

[Found at Jen Robinson's Book Page.]

speaking of time sinks...

here's an awesome time sink if you like riddles, visual puzzles, scavenger hunts and the like: http://thisisnottom.com

i'm stuck on the mailman

overdue book count - February 09

Currently at one. I took out this book to read to my kindergarten classes a month ago. Never got to it. Now it is More than One week overdue (more like 3!).

Do I feel guilty? Not really. It is not a wait list book, and they have several more copies. Plus, a wise friend/librarian once told me that it is our duty as librarians to have overdue books, so that we can pay fines to contribute much-needed funds to the libraries we use. To promote this theory, I'm adding overdue book counts as a new feature to this blog.