Just catching up with some of my unread Bloglines and this post over at Shhhh!! made me snigger into my morning coffee Rock The Reference Desk
Posts Tagged ‘funny’
yikes – I live in a blacklisted country
I don't think I've ever come across this before, but I responded to an email sent to me from a public library in the US and was surprised to receive the following delivery failure message… SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data:host csplspam.xxxxxxxx.lib.ia.us [xxx.xxx.160.30]:557 Your IP address is from a blacklisted country. [...]
100,000 ideas!
I totally failed to spot that the Library 2.0 Idea Generator has now created over 100,000 ideas! I've no idea what the 100,000th idea actually was, but I hope it was "Build an Idea Generator and sell it to Google for $1,000,000". Around about 1% of the ideas were of high enough quality that the [...]
"Tape Findings"
Those who know me well will know that I'm a fan of good "bad" music — from the awesome "The Shaggs" and the Portsmouth Sinfonia, through to the frankly surreal Swedish Elvis impersonator Eilert Pilarm. By the way, if you've never heard Eilert in action, here's a taster of what you've been missing: Jailhouse Rock [...]
Library 2.0, Schmibrary 2.0
The level of noise about "that label" seems to be getting louder of late, so I propose we simply change the name to… …which of course means we'll get a cool new name for it all next year! (The above is roughly 85.3% tongue-in-cheek, but if the new name takes off then bagsie I get [...]