I've been meaning to have a stab at creating something similar to a friend wheel, but using library data, for a while now. Here's a prototype which uses our "people who borrowed this, also borrowed…" data to try find strong borrowing relationships… I picked three random Dewey numbers and hacked together a quick PerlMagick script [...]
Posts from ‘November, 2008’
If…
…they'd made "The Terminator" 33 years earlier, I'm guessing the Cyberdyne Systems Model 101 might have looked like this: One of the things I love about the web is that it delivers all sorts of weird straight to your desktop! In this case, it's the 15 part serial "Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere", from [...]
300,000 ideas
Heh heh — just noticed that the Library 2.0 Idea Generator recently churned out it's 300,000th idea So, has anyone actually been inspired by one of the ideas or is everyone just using it to generate funny things which involve discombobulating Michael Stephens or doing inappropriate things to Kathryn Greenhill?
"Not the sharpest knife in the drawer"
I spent most of Saturday with a kitchen knife embedded in my chest… and it was kinda fun