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Jerry Falwell with a pretty face...

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:14:15 GMT

clipped by: nchnted
clipper's remarks: I hope that this "Change" is Not Coming!

She will take our message to the world!” rejoiced an Assembly of God youth ministry leader,

hat is what scares the Rev. Howard Bess. A retired American Baptist minister who pastors a small congregation in nearby Palmer,

Bess has been tangling with Palin and her fellow evangelical activists ever since she was a Wasilla City Council member in the 1990s. Recently, Bess again found himself in the spotlight with Palin, when it was reported that his 1995 book, “Pastor, I Am Gay,” was among those Palin tried to have removed from the Wasilla Public Library when she was mayor.

“She scares me,” said Bess. “She’s Jerry Falwell with a pretty face.

A Profile of Historic Perkins Observatory

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:30:26 GMT

clipped by: presohio

Clip Source: connect2.owu.edu

The Sky’s the Limit

Hiram Perkins’ gift inspires generations

For almost 90 years, students and community members have been seeing stars at one of OWU’s most beautiful and historic buildings.

Every detail of the Perkins Observatory, which was built in 1923, was lovingly designed and funded by Hiram Mills Perkins, who taught at Ohio Wesleyan University for more than a half-century. The care that went into the design can be seen in the fantastic detail of the structure, from the 135,000-pound dome to the carved likenesses of Helios and the Zodiacal beings. Sadly, the benefactor never saw his work completed. He died shortly after the groundbreaking ceremony in 1923; visitors to the observatory are told that on cloudy nights his ghost still wanders the place and reads the old books by the light of the library’s original brass lamps.

Burns believes that Perkins Observatory is a place for people of all ages and academic fields to appreciate that universe.

Tags: preservation, observatory, delaware

Because We Don't Need It...

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:10:49 GMT

clipped by: monstersmom
clipper's remarks: We don’t need more debts. Palin spent 15 million on a new sports center in the valley, leaving the small town of Wasilla, Alaska in debt to the amount of 22 million. (That’s 22 million more than the debt she took on when taking on this lovely playtime as mayor.)

We don’t need family feuds interfering with duties. I know you feel your ex-brother-in-law was a dick… but trying to get him fired...Sarah?

We don’t need another vote against gay marriage. This is just standard every day equal rights being overlooked. Sarah Palin disagrees.

We don’t need to overlook global warming. Science can now tell us "Yup. That is happening.” Not my words, that is science speak. Sarah Palin disagrees.

Clip Source: portugaltheman.net

We don’t need drilling in some of our most beautiful and untouched land. We need to work towards options. We should be investing and working towards clean fuels. We don’t need to be draining our planet of every last drop before moving on to the next. Sarah Palin disagrees

We needed votes to add the polar bear to the endangered species list. (I know, I know, that polar bear rug would really bring the room together!). Sarah Palin disagreed

We don’t need aerial hunting… Again. We do NOT need this. I don’t know of any true Alaskan that feels it is good sport to shoot an animal from a plane. Sarah Palin disagrees

We don’t need book burners and censors. Sarah Palin pushed to get the librarian of Wasilla fired when certain books were not removed from the public library. Who else in history has banned books? Not very good company is it?

Tags: palin, alaska, drilling, polar bear

Problems in approaching shame

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:29:01 GMT

clipped by: IntrepidEL
clipper's remarks: "Shame is like a subatomic particle. One's knowledge of shame is often limited to the trace it leaves" (Lewis 1992: 34)

Clip Source: books.google.co.uk

This interdisciplinary study brings together many contemporary discourses about shame within a new critical perspective. It will be an invaluable, stimulating resource for all those who are concerned with understanding...

Tags: shame

iraq

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:10:32 GMT

clipped by: ishika

Clip Source: weblis.unep.org

Evaluation of UNICEF emergency preparedness and early response in Iraq (September 2001 - June 2003) (English) United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) , October ; various paging, tables
Record Id: MON-020218; Document form: PAPERBACK; Call No: CEF-Man-Mon-(567)1


Library subject:	DISASTER MANAGEMENT & MITIGATION
Descriptors:	DISASTER PREPAREDNESS; DISASTER RELIEF; EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTRES; IRAQ; EVALUATION;
Geographic coverage:	IRAQ;

Status of the item(s):

(Library: Main Library), Book, Barcode: MON-020218

I've Always Wanted a Library

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:10:31 GMT

clipped by: CarnivalBorn
clipper's remarks: me too

Clip Source: homersoddisnthe.blogspot.com

"Nothing quite prepares you for the culture shock of Jay Walker's library.

Stuffed with landmark tomes and eye-grabbing historical objects—on the walls, on tables, standing on the floor—the room occupies about 3,600 square feet on three mazelike levels. Is that a Sputnik? (Yes.) Hey, those books appear to be bound in rubies. (They are.) That edition of Chaucer ... is it a Kelmscott? (Natch.) Gee, that chandelier looks like the one in the James Bond flick Die Another Day. (Because it is.) No matter where you turn in this ziggurat, another treasure beckons you—a 1665 Bills of Mortality chronicle of London (you can track plague fatalities by week), the instruction manual for the Saturn V rocket (which launched the Apollo 11 capsule to the moon), a framed napkin from 1943 on which Franklin D. Roosevelt outlined his plan to win World War II. In no time, your mind is stretched like hot taffy."

Palin~Casting Stones from Her Glass House

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:05:07 GMT

clipped by: sahara
clipper's remarks: The founder of the Alaska Independence Party -- a group that has been courted over the years by Sarah Palin, and one her husband was a member of for roughly seven years -- once professed his "hatred for the American government" and cursed the American flag as a "damn flag."

The AIP founder, Joe Vogler, made the comments in 1991, in an interview that's now housed at the Oral History Program in the Rasmuson Library at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
There is a link to listen to it here:
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/aip_founder_professed_hatred_f.php

Sarah Stalin has succeeded in one thing, and that is making McCain look like the intelligent member of their team! Not easy, but she did it!

Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

VP candidate invokes Obama's former pastor, but tempers Ayers attack line

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin expanded her attack on Democrat Barack Obama's character Monday to include his relationship with an incendiary former pastor as well as his ties to 1960s-era radical Bill Ayers

In the process, Palin toned down her description of the Obama-Ayers relationship after her weekend remarks were criticized as exaggerated, but at the same time she embarked on a discussion of Obama's relationship with his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., which Republican presidential candidate John McCain had signaled he did not want to be a part of his campaign

In an interview with conservative The New York Times columnist William Kristol published Monday, the Alaska governor said there should be more discussion about Wright, Obama's pastor of 20 years at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago

McCain himself condemned

there's no place for that kind of campaigning

Clip Source: www.care2.com

Tags: politics

Add search to your Web site with Xapian and Omega

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:22:09 GMT

clipped by: cyberwiz

Clip Source: www.linux.com

With Xapian and Omega you can quickly build a powerful search interface for your Web site. You'll be able to index your HTML, PDF, and PHP content and search for it by metadata or words contained in the documents.

The shared library that implements the actual index is called Xapian. Omega is a set of tools built by the Xapian team to let you use the library for index and search if you are not a software developer.

Omega is packaged as a 1-Click install for openSUSE and is available in Ubuntu Hardy Universe, but only Xapian is packaged for Fedora 9 as xapian-core-devel. I installed the Xapian package, and built version 1.0.8 of Omega from source on a 64-bit Fedora 9 machine with the usual ./configure; make; sudo make install commands. Along with the application, this installs the documentation, configuration file, and manual pages. You should also execute the below commands to set up the Web search interface.

salo - library as publisher

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:37:16 GMT

clipped by: csmithbepress

Clip Source: www.earlham.edu

I think some of us [librarians] have futures as publishing support specialists. Open Journal Systems isn't going away. I don't know how big this will become, truthfully, but I do know that I trust librarians a lot more than I trust other potential and actual players in this space.

Big-pig publishers lost credibility as scholarship's dutiful handmaidens long ago, and I'm nearly as cynical about scholarly societies, which had their chance to stand with us but stuck by the big pigs instead. A pox on both their houses; if the scholarly societies are right and open access sinks some of them, I'm perfectly baffled as to why I as a librarian should care....

Tags: library publishing

using ffmpeg to convert video & audio files

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:42:15 GMT

clipped by: Lexica
clipper's remarks: Now that VisualHub is no more, looks like ffmpeg might be the best remaining option. Hey, I've used vi - this should be no problem, right? *sigh*

Clip Source: www.catswhocode.com

19 ffmpeg commands for all needs

ffmpeg is a multiplatform, open-source library for video and audio files. I have compiled 19 useful and amazing commands covering almost all needs: video conversion, sound extraction, encoding file for iPod or PSP, and more.

Encode a video sequence for the iPpod/iPhone

Extracting sound from a video, and save it as Mp3

Convert a wav file to Mp3

Convert .avi video to .mpg

Convert .mpg to .avi

Convert .avi to animated gif(uncompressed)

Tags: video, conversion, converter

obama coverup

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:14:36 GMT

clipped by: DW29JW

Clip Source: sayanythingblog.com

The UIC Library says it is acting on behalf of the donor, whom it refuses to name.

It took Stanly Kurtz, of National Review Online to ask permission to see the files held by the publicly-funded University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). After initially agreeing, The Richard J. Daley Library withdrew permission. Kurtz writes:

But even if he doesn’t, the Annenberg Challenge is slowly entering the national consciousness, and that’s very bad news for Barack Obama.

This was a big test for him, his chance to cut his teeth on bringing hope and change to the mostly minority inner city school children trapped in Chicago schools. And he flopped big time, squandering lots of money and the time of many public employees in the process.

Heather's Genre

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:41:01 GMT

clipped by: icreeklumber

Clip Source: www.gutenberg.org

Browse By Library of Congress Class: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres

APPLE GENIUS WORTH 8.4 BILLION: Guardian.co.uk's charles ARTHUR

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 05:54:44 GMT

clipped by: ianschneider
clipper's remarks: The author puts a keen focus on how we gave Apple enough information to make 8.4 billion seem fair.
Extremely sharp and incisive. I learned a lot.
I think Mr. Arthur is a bit too quick to be interpreting Steve's algorithm at this point. I find that the program is genius in large part because while Steve Jobs and Apple™ know the tempo of every song to a frightening accuracy. Five seconds of silent thought will tell you the reasons Mr. Jobs will not fill in a BPM (beats per minute) column. To truly understand the tempo manipulation: you;d need to see the algorithm itself! So said, knowing the speeds of the songs I play on drums (it's the drums or the treadmill - I'm doing the exercise thing), I find the program to be almost wildly genius. What's wildly evil os that
1) Apple knows but will not divulge BPM;
2) Apple uses the tempo element of you collection on playlists made for you that are so good that when I play I do not even look at what is coming next as iy has all been so

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Genius. It's a word that Guinness seems to have abandoned in its advertising. So Apple, which can spot a vacuum as well as the next big company intent on world domination, has been quick to pick it up.

The "Genius" feature in the latest version of iTunes is getting a lot of attention: you pick a track in your iTunes library, and after a bit of munching away – and talking to Apple's online servers at the iTunes Store – it will come up with a list of 25 or more tracks that it thinks "go with" the track you selected.

This feature is probably the most valuable piece of coding that any group of people has ever written. By my calculations it's worth about $8.4 billion.

Tags: genius, apple, jobs, itunes, music, algorithm

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:15:14 GMT

clipped by: SkipMich

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928, and in 1998 it was selected by the editorial board of the American Modern Library as one of the 100 best 20th-Century novels. The book was quoted by Tony Blair during the memorial service for victims of the September 11 attacks in 2001. The book was cited during the 2007 Minneapolis bridge collapse by Brian Williams of NBC News as well as Charlie Gibson of ABC News.

ALA's Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2007

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:19:57 GMT

clipped by: keeth

Clip Source: www.ala.org

The most frequently challenged books of 2007

And Tango Makes Three, by Justin Richardson/Peter Parnell
Reasons: Anti-Ethnic, Sexism, Homosexuality, Anti-Family, Religious Viewpoint, Unsuited to Age Group

The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier
Reasons: Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Violence

Olive’s Ocean, by Kevin Henkes
Reasons: Sexually Explicit and Offensive Language

The Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman
Reasons: Religious Viewpoint

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
Reasons: Racism

The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
Reasons: Homosexuality, Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language,

TTYL, by Lauren Myracle
Reasons: Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
Reasons: Sexually Explicit

It’s Perfectly Normal, by Robie Harris
Reasons: Sex Education, Sexually Explicit

The Perks of Being A Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
Reasons: Homosexuality, Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group

Tags: american, library, association, challenged, books