This is absolutely the most outrageous news story to come out of my hometown in a while.

In a nutshell, Planned Parenthood was going to donate some land to Habitat for Humanity, but an anti-abortion group called the American Life League pummeled Habitat International with 10,000 emails, demanding that Habitat nix the deal. Because donors were ( Read more... )

One of our librarians is an amateur beekeeper, and today I came in to work to find on my desk a honeybear bottle full of freshly-squeezed bee barf. Yum!


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A former co-worker of mine spent the last few years tramping around the Pacific Rim, snapping a lot of striking photos along the way. This particular shot apparently garnered a fair amount of attention, appearing in a few magazines and exhibitions.


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I love everything about that video. Chris Ware, This American Life, Robert Krulwich... it's all gold ( Read more... )

When my girlfriend showed me this picture in the most recent Smithsonian Magazine, I said "good lord, that's the most action packed landscaping photo I've ever seen!" I didn't immediately catch on to the gimmick*.


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A news crew is coming to do a brief interview with me tomorrow to promote a library event. PANIC PANIC PANIC

BLARGH

So in my final semester, I could do an internship. Not gonna do it, since I've been a gainfully indentured library slog for three years now, but if I did want to, I could gig with a flippin' lemur preserve. I assume my work there would consist primarily of trying to stuff ring-tails back onto shelves.


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Check out the sweet consumer good that just arrived on my doorstep!


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I think I might be the only grad student in history to submit an academic paper that references Sisters of Mercy in relation to controlled vocabularies. I'm kind of proud of that, and more than a little embarrassed.

Man, that video is just fucking absurd.