The Books sub-Reddit on the Reddit web site gets asked a question about why libraries are no longer quiet. Interesting to read some of the responses from the book-lover types who hang out in this area even though there aren't too many unexpected revelations in the answers provided (except that some libraries - in the UK possibly? - rent DVD's rather than loaning them for free) and many reply in terms of their experiences with academic rather than public libraries.
[Edit: oh, one other revelation from near the end of the thread - Reddit has a sub-Reddit just for libraries. And...subscribe!]
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Wednesday, March 10
When and Why Did Libraries Stop Being Silent?
by
Jason
on Wed 10 Mar 2010 08:56 PM CST
Monday, March 8
Music Monday - "I got a letter from the government the other day/Opened it and read it/It said they were suckers/They wanted me for their army or whatever"
by
Jason
on Mon 08 Mar 2010 08:30 PM CST
When I was in England in 1995, this song (and the album it appeared on) were consistently rated at or near the top of the "best of" lists for that year by the NME, Melody Maker and Q.
Sunday, March 7
Has It Been A Week Already?
by
Jason
on Sun 07 Mar 2010 11:00 PM CST
A detailed analysis of the four seconds leading up to Sidney Crosby's gold medal winning goal at the Olympics.
(via Reddit) Saturday, March 6
Saturday Snap - Getting Ready For Our New Flooring
by
Jason
on Sat 06 Mar 2010 09:16 AM CST
Everybody pitches in!
 Friday, March 5
Friday Fun Link - What Do Today's Parents Need To Know That Previous Ones Didn't? (March 7, 2010)
by
Jason
on Fri 05 Mar 2010 11:45 PM CST
Seriously, I think I could start dedicating a day to an Ask MetaFilter Question o' the Day. (I did ask a category for MetaFilter recently so that's part way there already!)
This one was particularly relevant - what things does a new parent today have to know about/worry about that previous generations didn't? Thursday, March 4
The Saskatchewan Party Government - Now With Over 100% Incompetence!
by
Jason
on Thu 04 Mar 2010 11:30 PM CST
100% is a good mark if you're taking an accounting class, not so good when it reflects how wrong you were with your budget predictions.
I wrote about this when our Saskatchewan Party government was out by 95% with their potash reveue projections late last year. But man, it takes a special kind of stupid to be so wrong with your projections that you end up being *over* 100% wrong and actually end up having to pay back a couple hundred million dollars you were paid in advance against resource royalties. If anybody out there reading this really thinks it doesn't matter who you vote for (or even if you vote) and that all politicians are the same, I hope you realise that's not nearly the case. I try not to get into politics with family very often but an elderly relative raised the subject a few months back. She was pumping up Brad Wall and running down the NDP so I pointed out what was at the time 95% error in the Sask Party's potash projections. She countered with this interesting bit of logic: "at least Brad Wall's a good speaker." I was like "well, then let's get him a TV show because he really really sucks at being a Premier!" But that kinda sums up the battle the NDP has for itself going into the next election - you've got the Sask Party with a leader who's (perceived to be) young, telegenic, a big football fan with a GW Bush-like capacity to make people think they'd just like to have a beer with him/that he's just a regular guy/he's a good speaker who's out there pounding the pavement to promote Saskatchewan. Hopefully people will take off the blinders and think just a wee little bit about how screw-ups like this one do so much damage to our province and our people. Hmm, maybe time to give that aunt a follow-up call! Wednesday, March 3
What Do You Notice?
by
Jason
on Wed 03 Mar 2010 07:25 PM CST
AskMetaFilter frowns on ChatFilter questions but they tend to be the most interesting to me. Here's one on "What do you notice?" which has all kinds of answers from "when people are polite" to "clouds" to "typos" (or is that typo's?
 )Tuesday, March 2
"Saskatchewan is used to leading, trying new things and being co-operative" - SILS officially launched!
by
Jason
on Tue 02 Mar 2010 10:15 PM CST
The Saskatchewan Library & Information Services Consortium (SILS) which will bring together ten separate library systems across the province plus the government agency responsible for library services officially launched this morning at RPL's George Bothwell branch.
Four systems are live already (Saskatoon Public Library, Palliser which is based in Moose Jaw, Southeast which is based in Weyburn and Regina Public Library) which together, represent over 50% of the province's population. The other systems will join by this fall creating a common user experience anywhere from Conquest to Climax. (Sorry - I had to. Can you believe that I used that actual line in some promotional copy once? It's true!  ) It's not quite the same "Where were you when?" moment that winning a gold medal in hockey is. But for many of the province's librarians, trustees and others involved in the process, it's the closest thing we'll have in the library world. Pretty amazing stuff! Monday, March 1
Music Monday - "We are the 'what' in 'what's new'."
by
Jason
on Mon 01 Mar 2010 12:05 AM CST
The Olympics are over and the reactions are all over the place from claims from a perhaps unexpected source (Dave Bidini, not the National Post) that Canada has been changed for the better forever to claims that the debt will weigh down on our citizens for decades.
Anyhow, for today's Music Monday, I thought I'd re-visit one of the most pleasant surprises from the Opening Ceremonies two weeks ago - a slam poet captures Canada... Sunday, February 28
Dear World: Canada will be closed from 12-3pm (PST) Sunday afternoon.
by
Jason
on Sun 28 Feb 2010 02:34 PM CST
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