An AskMetaFilter thread which may be of particular use to those in academic libraries. Nobody's posted the top Library Science journals and I can't remember the names of the ones that were supposed to be the tops in their field (though I do remember getting lectured by our 501 professor when he realised that most of his students weren't regularly reading LIS journals outside of our assigned readings - oops!)
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Sunday, January 31
What Are The Top Academic Journals In Various Fields?
by
Jason
on Sun 31 Jan 2010 11:18 PM CST
Saturday, January 30
Saturday Snap - Religious Indoctrination of Children Happens Early These Days
by
Jason
on Sat 30 Jan 2010 11:56 PM CST
For instance, Pace is already a believer in the Flying Spaghetti Monster at the tender age of two and a half. Oh, the horror!
 Friday, January 29
Friday Fun Link - "Library" at WikiHow (January 30, 2010)
by
Jason
on Fri 29 Jan 2010 11:57 PM CST
WikiHow is a site where anyone can add instructional guides on pretty much any topic you can think of. There's lots of good information (in between the tons of Google ads) from How to Teach Yourself Piano to How To Treat A Snakebite - although the usual caveat about the guides being user-submitted and editable by anyone applies.
A search for "library" reveals a bunch of interesting guides - from How To Check Out A Library Book to How To Write A Note Commending Library Staff. Thursday, January 28
Food Porn at Its Best
by
Jason
on Thu 28 Jan 2010 05:39 PM CST
Wednesday, January 27
Apple iPad Officially Announced
by
Jason
on Wed 27 Jan 2010 05:43 PM CST
Apple's newest product wasn't a huge secret - the majority of observers predicted some form of tablet computer. So the speculation mainly centered around what form their tablet computer would take: like an iTouch but "better"? Some sort of iPhone/netbook hybrid? Something revolutionary with technologies we've never seen before? (Touch on both sides of the device? Lasers to zap your enemies?)
From the announcement today (and ignoring the patented Steve Jobs hyperbole), it sounds like an iTouch but bigger (with a healthy swirl of Kindlge thrown in too.) Here's a sample of the commentary: Apple Unveils iPad Tablet (NYT) Liveblogging Steve Jobs' Presentation (NYT) Apple iPad: What We Still Don't Know (PCWorld) The Young Curmudgeon's Club That is MetaFilter Weighs In (MetaFilter) But after proclaiming the iPhone the greatest invention in the history of inventions in my year-end wrap-up last year, I'm pretty excited to get my hands on the iPad. Drool... Tuesday, January 26
The Invention of Lying - Mini-Review
by
Jason
on Tue 26 Jan 2010 11:11 PM CST
We watched Ricky Gervais' "The Invention of Lying" tonight and it's a fairly subversive comedy in a thematic area that doesn't get a lot of attention from Hollywood.
The film's trailer made it look like a typical Hollywood gimmicky slug line = green light production. You can imagine the pitch: "It's like Jim Carrey's "Liar Liar" except nobody can tell a lie, not just the main character." Except instead of sticking with that easy out and resulting cheap comedy, Gervais takes it to a pretty dangerous place - in a world where no one can lie, religion doesn't exist because that's too big of a leap of faith to be possible in an otherwise completely honest, logical world. But when one man discovers the ability to lie, this literally leads to the creation of religion since no one has the capacity to understand that the tale he spins of a "man in the sky" could be anything but true. (Now if Hollywood would just make a film version of one of my all-time favourite novels which also has "the Big Lie" as its main theme, we'd really see some subversive ideas on celluloid!  )Monday, January 25
Music Monday - "I'd have given anything/To have my own Pac-man game at home/I used to have to get a ride down to the arcade/Now I've got it on my phone."
by
Jason
on Mon 25 Jan 2010 07:51 PM CST
I don't listen to as much country music as I did in my smalltown youth but this song caught my ear when I heard it.
I love how the first couple verses are just typical "I remember this, I remember that" cuteness but then the tone changes slightly leading to that whopper of a last verse that seriously brought tears to my eyes the first time I heard it. Fun video too! Saturday, January 23
Saturday Snap - The Future of Nascar?
by
Jason
on Sat 23 Jan 2010 09:33 PM CST
Logos on the drivers as well as the cars?
 Friday, January 22
Friday Fun Link - What's the Dumbest Thing You've Ever Heard Somebody Say? (January 22, 2010)
by
Jason
on Fri 22 Jan 2010 11:58 PM CST
Another very entertaining Ask.Reddit thread. I heard a good one myself recently - one woman was talking to another woman and said "We're not Catholic, we're Christians."
Friday Fun Link - "Why Don't You Read?" (January 22, 2010)
by
Jason
on Fri 22 Jan 2010 06:00 AM CST
The Globe & Mail recently featured this catchy a capella cover of the song "Crazy" rewritten to discuss the woes of the print media world in the Internet age. (H/T to Heather M.)
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