unknownlibrarian

2003-03-12T19:00:00.000-08:00

This article from TCS is the most thought provoking and well conceived article about the war with Iraq that I have seen. It is logical, compelling and not partisan. Recommended reading.

Our World-Historical Gamble

Thanks to gevn for the link.

2003-03-07T13:37:00.000-08:00

Florida State Library in Peril - Not long before it was revealed that Gov. Jeb Bush planned to close the Florida State Library, lay off the entire staff and move the collection to Florida State University, the governor issued a proclamation declaring February as Florida Library Appreciation Month...Told last week that the flap doesn't seem to be going away, Bush answered, "So, stop writing about it."

Sign a Petition to save the FL State Library

Pictures from the Protest

2003-03-06T08:05:00.000-08:00

If the government doesn't have you convinced that terrorists are coming to your house tomorrow to kill you, you haven't been paying attention. Go to ready.gov and learn how duct tape and plastic will save you from a nuclear blast.

Ready.gov

Thanks to the good folks at govdoc-l for these links to spoofs and parodies of the ready.gov site. These sites range from the amateurish to the predicatable, but they are all bloody hilarious.

http://www.idlewords.com/biological.html

http://www.robotpolishers.com/dhs/

http://loxosceles.org/scripts/date.pl?d=2003-02-19_01

http://www.cafeshops.com/homelandparty

http://www.kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/000290.html

http://track7.vze.com/ready.html

http://www.terrorready.net

2003-03-05T15:58:00.000-08:00

All right, so I screwed up the html on the previous version of this blog so badly that I had to delete it and start over.

Am I angry at myself for that? Damn straight! Will I tread the same ground I did before? Possibly. Does anybody but me ever read this? I doubt it. Do I care? Absolutely not!

So, I'm going to start here where I started before - with librarian.net. This is the best blog on the Internet and dates back to 1999 before blogs were as commonplace as they are now. Jessamyn does a wonderful job and librarian.net is worth a look.

librarian.net