Archive for October, 2005

Monday, October 31st, 2005

Hi, I’m Bert

Bert You scored 72% Organization, 60% abstract, and 44% extroverted!

This test measured 3 variables.

First, this test measured how organized you are. Some muppets like Cookie Monster make big messes, while others like Bert are quite anal about things being clean.

Second, this test measured if you prefer a concrete [...]

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Sunday, October 23rd, 2005

Robo Milker

Expanding the bounds of information technology, my grandparents would have loved to have this when they had a dairy.

DeLaval Voluntary Milking System (LinuxDevices.com)
Info and video from DeLaval

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Thursday, October 20th, 2005

The greatest cataloger ever

In a follow up to this post on cataloging , Sanford Berman is Nerve.com’s, Crush of the Week .
And now I get to play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, only without the pork. At UTK’s School of Information Sciences I was in the Ph.D program with Dick Kawooya. Among other things Dick [...]

2 Comments » - Posted in Library & Information Science by Dan

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Thursday, October 20th, 2005

Which Tarot card are you?

Via Wanderings of a Student Librarian

You are the the Hierophant card. The Hierophant, called The Pope in some decks, is the preserver of cultural traditions. After entering The Emperor’s society, The Hierophant teaches us its wisdom. The Hierophant learns and teaches our cultural traditions. The discoveries our ancestors have made influence the present.
Without forces such [...]

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Tuesday, October 18th, 2005

Universal Service

The Wikipedia definition is a bit sparse, but universal service is the idea the everyone should have access to telecommunications. Classically this idea has only been applied to basic telephone service, it’s why 99% of the United States has the ability to have a land line telephone.
This Slashdot discussion talks about the problems with [...]

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