February 2008
17 posts
fantasy football and librarianship!
yes. i am a nerd.
Librarians’ Sport of Choice: Teaching Information Literacy through Fantasy Football, link via a post on “Fantasy Sports and Real Information Literacy” at The Shifted Librarian.
robot soldiers
scary!
financially illiterate
Well, shouldn’t we do something about it?
Americans don’t understand debt, which may be one reason that they have too much of it, according to a survey released Tuesday. The survey presented 1,000 people with a hypothetical scenario about credit card debt and asked them to compute how long it would take to pay it off. Only 35.9% of the 1,000 respondents could figure out how many years...
Briton jailed for urinating on Latvian monument duh
Quicksilver Clock Could Revolutionize Physics
awesome
Biscoff!
I don’t fly very often, but when I do, it’s to go home to see my dad via Delta to New Orleans. They have the best route times and cheapest flights. And they have the best rates to fly with pets, which I have to do at least once a year with extended visits home and all - with my girlfriend and our Chihuahuas. Anyway, another reason I love Delta is their mid-flight snacks. I like the...
what does Edwards think of Obama?
See here.
Deep question: Why does Larry Birkhead hold his baby like that?
DOJ, don't myspace on this one
Again: it’s not the “subprime crisis” (i.e. a way to say that the current credit problems and burst housing bubble were caused by poor people defaulting on their homes because of shady and risky loans that they took out). Using that terminology really gets under my skin, because it makes poor people or people who are defaulting on their housing loans, having their houses...
Build your own scale model of a carbon nanotube: Exploring the Nanoworld
it's not the defaulters fault
Creators of Credit Crisis Revel in Las Vegas
The creators of the credit crisis in this article aren’t the people who defaulted on their loans. Finally a newspaper is giving credit where credit is due:
To the Assholes.
And here I thought poor people caused the “subprime” meltdown and started the road to recession.
Now can we finally say that it’s all related to...
Mukasey has myspaced - is not investigating...
via Talking Points Memo:
We have now the Attorney General of the United States telling Congress that it’s not against the law for the President to violate the law if his own Department of Justice says it’s not. …President Bush has now laid down his most aggressive challenge to the very constitutional authority of Congress. It is a naked assertion of executive power. The founders...
permanent war McCain making Cheney look like...
Geez, he’s a bit out there himself, but if Pat Buchanan says something ultra crazy about a conservative…
On the NBC Today Show, liberal radio host Rachel Maddow, conservative pundit Pat Buchanan, and Democratic strategist Paul Begala discussed the importance of “change” in the upcoming election. Voters want a “clean break from Bush,” argued Maddow. Begala...
It's a long way to November
Not sure if I wanted this nomination thing shored up yet or not. Nevertheless. Onward to the convention!
[Viigo] small govt republicans, or not
I thought Republicans wanted to lower the budget, keep government small. Oh right, they just want to screw over domestic programs and cut aid to poor people and medical programs and student loan programs.
What happened to getting rid of the deficit?
“The president’s budget plan, which foresees near-record deficits just ahead, is sure to meet resistance in the Democratic Congress.”...
Me, last night, after Tyree's catch
Go Giants!
Tickertape parade tomorrow.
Oh Donald R, there are also unknown unknowns
“In a rare public appearance, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld defends the military’s practice of planting stories in the press — and called for a new U.S. agency for propaganda. “The internet is there, pods are there, talk radio is there, e-mails are there. There are all kinds of opportunities,” he says.”
Makes me think of his poetry.
Happenings, by...
What recession?
Exxon: New U.S. Record for Profit Good gracious. “Exxon Mobil’s net income rose 14% to $11.66 billion in 2007’s final period, boosted by high oil prices. The energy giant’s quarterly and annual profit set U.S. corporate records.”