Fun

Watch the 5 winners of the 2008 InfoTubey Awards at www.infotubey.com.

And don't forget to tell your patrons they can create an original video that depicts the AskAway chat service to enter the "I Love AskAway" YouTube video contest; details & entry form are at http://askaway.pbwiki.com/YouTube+Contest+Entry+Page.

Here's my favorite: "Now Your Library is Open Late Night, Too!"

Trying to find a meeting place between friends? Try using the Google Maps mashup called a.placebetween.us for your next get-together.

First, enter where you're coming from, then enter a city or an address for each member of your party. The map will begin putting blue "push-pins" on the map for each as you enter them.

Next, enter the type of place you want to meet -- like "coffee", "Mexican", "ice cream", "library", or even just the word "restaurant." A yellow push-pin will appear for each, along with details for each, along with driving directions from each person's starting location.

The Project Play planners are using this handy mashup to figure out where we could next meet -- we've always met in Fond du Lac, but the chocolate shop at which we stopped after lunch is soon to close. Using a.placebetween.us, Waupun Public Library (and Guth Candies) is the contender for our next meeting-place. :-)  read more »

Celebrate National Library Week April 13-19 by watching the “National Library Week: Super Sized” video at http://alfocus.ala.org/videos/national-library-week-super-sized. Those of you in and around Oshkosh will appreciate this part of his order: “Throw in a couple of copies of magazines with Johnny Depp on the cover; it doesn’t matter which ones.”

This is one of a series of National Library Week videos from the American Library Association. You can watch all of them at http://alfocus.ala.org/categories/national-library-week.

Local photos of Johnny Depp in the midst of filming "Public Enemies" in Oshkosh can be found here:

• http://www.oshkoshpubliclibrary.org/research/publicenemies
• http://www.fdlpl.org/enemies.html
• http://flickr.com/photos/keetra/

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So you decided you’re going to get your email inbox down to empty every day in 2007. Problem is, you started with 500 unreads from 2006 on January 1st. Start out the year with a clean inbox without the fear of deleting anything you may later need.
Read full article.  read more »

"We're bidding adieu to 2007 with a look back at the breaking news, the big events and the must-have gadgets that captivated us this year (give or take a few weeks; we compile this list by early December). To get a glimpse of what's been on our collective consciousness, we mined billions of search queries to discover what sorts of things rose to the top. We encourage you to check out our findings to see if you, too, reflect the zeitgeist — the spirit of the times."

See the results here.

CAT is great for anyone who doesn't get TV Guide, and wants to keep track of their favorite shows.

Once you register on the site, you pick your favorite shows. This then creates a calendar based on those shows. You can see what time they air, the season and episode number, and if you mouse over a show's name it will give you a brief description of that episode.

Last week, my son asked about the origins of Halloween. He said he had heard it was 'evil' and wanted to know more about it. In my quest, I came accross an excellent mini-site from the History channel:

The History of Halloween at History.com

To celebrate International Talk Like A Pirate Day, the Ides will be displayed in pirate-speak. So, come back on the 19th and don't forget your eye patch.

Yarr! 

Go2Web20.net

A directory of web 2.0 applications and services.

Most of us get spam every day. Some of us get a little, and some of us get a lot, but if you have an e-mail account it is always there.

Howstuffworks has a great article on how spam works.

The New Yorker also has a great article on spam.