Enterprise Abstraction

CISTI Tacky Christmas

In a groundswell of tackyness - CISTI staff are participating in a Tacky Christmas Decorating contest amongst the various sections of staff.  Examples from the IT group included below:

I hope nobody needs anything from those particular shelves in the reference section...

Library puppet videos - Weasel and Goose

Despite my usual rule against posting about things that Richard Akerman has already blogged, I feel it's required that I pay homage to the creativity and comedy of Llord Llama (or is it King Goose?) who provides a collection of amusing and silly puppet-based videos - mostly about libraries, copyright, publishers and such.  Awesome.

The one about copyright vs publisher vs librarians is particularly poignant.

Ig Nobel 2007

The video of the Ig Nobel 2007 Ceremony is now available.  The Ig Nobel's are awarded yearly for research that first makes you laugh, and then makes you think.  The Ig Nobel's are sponsored by the journal Annals of Improbable Research.

Should I keep playing this game?

Here's a helpful flowchart to help married gamers determine if they should keep gaming.  Particularly useful for me and my World of Warcrack affliction.  Downloadable in GIF or PDF for printing.

- Via Digg & BBSpot.