I love Lego mosaics, so I thought this was really cool…
It's by Nathan Sawaya —
Posts from ‘December, 2006’
Guide to Hitchcock on DVD – part 2
Following on from the first part of the guide, here's the low down on the rest of Hitchcock's films from the 1920s.
In the US, virtually of the DVD releases of the following films have been lower quality budget "public domain" discs. Whilst these are a cheap way of getting hold of the films, you'll probably [...]
eeeeeeww – educational spam!
I'm curious as to how many other library bloggers have received the following unsolicited spam from the "Southern California University of Professional Studies":
Thank you for this opportunity to correspond with your organization concerning advertising on your website. My name is Patrice Madderra and I am representing SCUPS (Southern California University of Professional Studies). [...]
Seasons Greetings!
Seasonal greetings to one and all!
It's not quite Christmas Day yet in the UK (another 15 minutes to go), but over in Australia my older brother is already celebrating on the beach… the lucky git, bah humbug!
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a peaceful New Year!
And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold [...]
Blog Tag: 5 Things You Didn't Want To Know About Dave Pattern
Eeeeek — I've been tagged by Brian Kelly, so here's 5 things you didn't want to know about me (with lots of links)…
1) For the last 8 months I've been raising a farm of mealworms to feed the birds in our garden, and there are several thousand of them wriggling around boxes in our spare [...]
breaking news: Stephen Abram's brain overloads
I guess it had to happen one day, but it looks like Stephen Abram might have assimilated one piece of information too many…
http://stephenslighthouse.sirsidynix.com/archives/2006/12/nbnb.html
OPAC search cloud and failed searches
Seeing as I've got my head in the clouds at the moment, here's one showing the most popular keyword search words used on our OPAC during the last 6 months…
www.daveyp.com/blog/stuff/opacsearches.html
To be honest, there aren't too many surprises in there — students studying business & law and the health sciences are the heaviest users of the [...]
"whatcha talking 'bout?" version 4!
Ok, this is pretty much the final definitive version of analysing the latest hot topics from library/librarian blogs…
http://161.112.232.18/hotstuff.php
The page is updated approximately every 15 minutes and uses the following methodology…
1) posts older than 48 hours are analysed and the frequency by which every unique word appears is calculated
2) posts from the last 48 hours are [...]
Library bloggers… whatcha talking 'bout now?
This is a variation of the previous cloud which attempts to show which words have been used more frequently in the last couple of days compared to previous days.
I've added a lot of the more common words to the stop word list (e.g. "librar*" and "google") to try and allow some of the less frequently [...]
Library bloggers… whatcha talking 'bout?
Following on from the Second Life RSS hack, I've stolen borrowed an idea from Andy Powell…
To try and improve the hack, I've written my own RSS feed aggregator and it's been busy sucking in around 90 library & librarian's blogs. Then, by analysing the blog post titles and text, I'm able to produce a cloud [...]