Graffiti No. 2
Another graffiti picked up around the library. This one is a bit more surrealist.
View ArticleHot Library Action
From The Nonist, some Hot Library Smut: Yesterday I came across a truly gorgeous book of photographs by Candida Höfer titled, Libraries, a title which pretty much says it all, because that is just...
View ArticleMy favorite use of quotation marks
Here’s a great example of my very favorite misuse of quotation marks: the use of quotation marks to indicate emphasis, where it should probably be underlined or bolded. This is a card we recieved at...
View ArticleProduct Review: Eye-Fi
As a part of having a new Eliza around, we went camera shopping for a new digital camera. I asked for feedback from a bunch of friends as to what digital camera they used and liked, and took those...
View ArticleHow broken is copyright in the US?
How broken is copyright in the US? So broken that if you look at two different books, both published by the same publisher (Dodd, Mead & Co.), in the same year (1940), both with copyright notices,...
View ArticleGriffey Men, circa late 1930
The Brothers Griffey in the late 1930s. Picture taken on Griffey Branch, Olive Hill, KY. Left to right: Milton Griffey Sr., Van Gordon ‘Jack’ Griffey (d. 10/18/1970), James Morgan Griffey, Clay...
View ArticleInterfaces
I’m sure this isn’t an original thought (so very, very few are), but it was novel enough to me that I needed to write it down…and that’s pretty much what a blog is designed for. I’ve written and talked...
View ArticlePhotos, backup, iPhone 4S
Over at Librarians Matter, my friend Kathryn wrote a post about how to deal with removing photos from the Camera Roll on your iPhone when they become burdensome. In her case, it was 3000 or so photos...
View ArticleMetapho
Here’s one for the iOS users out there concerned about information security issues! I just discovered the app Metapho, which lets you view the metadata associated with the photos on your iOS device....
View ArticleOpenArchive
Sitting in the Internet Archive Great Room (see photo above for reference…yes, it’s in an old church….) I’m reminded that I never pushed out the link to the amazing new app that was created in part by...
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