And we're back!

[silveradept]

Lots happened while I was away, apparently. The links will follow. First, some statistics:

Police Vehicles seen: 34
Giant Crucifixes seen: 2
Grills left by the side of the road: 1
People Met: 8
Fun had: Non-quantifiable.

Apples to Apples is still a fantastic party game.

I also got to meet a fantastic half-dozen-plus or so of the Pocket Otaku crowd. Sooooo much fun, especially when you're playing Apples and you have the sounds of war in Imperial Japan going on behind you (one of the PO was playing Samurai Legends 2). Got to see a little of Okami being played, too. I think that game's going to be great fun.

Now, onward with the parade.

First, something they're drilling to my head at school - Librarians are the best search engines available. Failing that, if you wanted to take a virtual tour of earth, NASA World Wind might be able to help you.

At the top point of Politics, twistedchick provides a rundown of the current state of the Bill of Rights.

Beyond that, Even Clinton knew there weren't WMDs. Of course, it's taken a rather large while for it to be said, but apparently, it's true. There weren't any WMD in Iraq while Clinton was president. (Well, okay, honestly, it's just Clinton saying that he didn't get anything definitive on Iraq nuclear programs.) Still, it's been the justification for a lot of things so far. Including potentially new FBI powers under the Patriot Act. Among other things. At least it's harder to claim "But he was gay!" as a legal defense for your hate crime, at least in California. On the other hand, it may soon be that attorneys challenging the Establishment clause won't be able to collect their fees in damages if they win. Which basically would screw over the people who need lawyers to help them the most. Got to love it - although we'll see if SCOTUS tells it to take a hike, or we have to wait for someone to bring a case on it. (And, of course, whether it'll stand or get knocked over on such a case.) Hopping from there, along a potentially similar line, depending on your views - The NH professor with Scholars for 9/11 Truth now has a student group calling for his head.

Going crafty for a bit, iShuffle case made out of Altoids tin and some padding. Not too shabby. The bag made of 3.5" diskettes is... not too great. I mean, nice idea, very crafty, but... no. Ninja necklace, however, is cool. As are crocheted headphone covers.

Perhaps the best thing for tonight, though, is Freeafterrebate.info, where you might pick up more than a few free deals... assuming you can wait for the rebate check. The most amusing, however, falls to the military finding the IKEA model of build-it-yourself appealing and cost-saving. You can put together modern military hardware - all you need are some screws, bolts, and an Allen wrench. Neat. Running a close second, though, is an e-mail account of Genesis.

Comments

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

Gonna have to play my Kurosawa DVDs next time I am at a place where we're playing A2A. I love that game!

You've some broken markup in your first link. Instead of ending the open tag with .html"> you ended it with .html. Makes a typical Silver entry rather tough to read, what with all the unscanned html following it.

Have teh best

-=TK

[silveradept]

Yeah, no kidding. Luckily, it's been spotted and fixed so that all things work properly. Must remember to close my tags properly.

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

the librarian article keeps breaking firefox for mne, and I'm not sure why.

I thought the floppy disk bag was at least funny. I mean, i've seen better/more functional re-con bags, like a bag made of comics and stuff, but still. amusing. The ninja necklace makes me want to start checking those .25 machines for silly figurines I can make into necklaces :D. I'm dissapointed that my iPod is too big for an altoid case, because that would be really nifty.

I have a few other freebie/rebate-y websites...did I send them to you?

Glad you're back and glad you had a good time. We missed you around here.

see you Tues :D

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

Excellent, Smithers! *BESE*

Have teh best

-=TK

[sharpsight.livejournal.com]

N)

[quote]
The user doesn't need to know. Half of these planets cannot be seen without a telescope. I suggest ammending the user manual with an 11-th Commandment: "Thou Shalt Not Invent A Telescope".
-- Gabriel

No. Then they will definitely invent it.
-- Jehovah
[/quote]

*amusement*

[przxqgl.livejournal.com]

librarians have always been the best search engines available... i remember when i was in the tech school, 20 years ago, and i used to play "stump the reference librarian" in my spare time. to play, you find the phone number for the reference desk of your local library, and then come up with a question, for which you already know the answer, to which the reference librarian will (presumably) find the answer, and see how long it takes before they either give you the right answer, or give up... which is surprisingly uncommon.

one of my favourites was: "there is a military acronym that occurs between SNAFU and FUBAR in terms of seriousness. what is the third (middle) acronym?" (answer: FUMTU - Fucked Up More Than Usual).

[silveradept]

Librarians are tenacious when it comes to reference questions. They'll leverage their knowledge and resources, and if that doesn't work, then they'll leverage each other and their knowledge and resources. Every reference questions has a potential to involve all librarians in on it. So it's really a matter of when you need the answer - if you don't need it immediately, they'll probably find it, even if it's obscure.

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

I thinki have a new game! stump the librarian!

[silveradept]

That's a game that lots of people are playing all around the world, and all throughout the existence of librarians.

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

Yes, but now I have two librarians I can play it with ;)