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No it's not Friday, but didn't think that I should hold onto this until then...

The comic strip "Rhymes with Orange" ran an interesting strip about a couple undergoing counseling and they use an interesting analogy, check it out.

Not every librarian is a fashion enthusiast...but those who are might be interested in...

... "Dirty Librarian Chains". Want one for yourself or a friend? Here's their website.

Need a gift for a bookloving friend or colleague? Looking for cool book-related items (well, they're not all book related, but they're pretty cool anyway) to add to the library store or sell at the circ. desk?

Here's a slew of suggestions from Wanda Jewell, Director of the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance.

Even if you don't buy right away, you can always browse! TGIF.

Here's a "Friday Time Killer" for a Monday: a perfume inspired by an "English novel" with "Russian & Moroccan leather bindings, worn cloth and a hint of wood polish."

The guys and gals at ShoeBox greeting cards have their own blog. Checkout their posts on everything from suggestions that don't cut it for what their looking for to funny little drawings. It will keep you entertained and laughing all day.

I have four undocumented aliens in my living room (no not those kind of aliens - although I do live quite close to the Church of Scien...well nevermind) .

I have a friend who needed a place for four people to stay since there was an apartment fire in a nearby city today. They were 'guests' of the 3 people who lived in the 2 bedroom apartment. If they can fit 7 peole in a 2 bedroom I can certainly fit five people in my place. The red cross found the family on the lease a place but it was too small for everyone.

These educational games were developed by graduate students from the Entertainment Technology Center, in collaboration with the University Libraries, and the generous support of the Buhl Foundation.

Based on my experience, out of five or so categories (classic and people), the game was able to answer two out of five times before the twentieth question. The three tougher answers were answered with fewer than thirty questions. The game FAQ tells us about the possibility of 'contradictions', explaining: "Since 20Q learns everything it knows from the people who play, it is dealing with opinions, not facts. It's more like a folk taxonomy. Folk taxonomies are generated from social knowledge and are used in everyday speech. Since the opinions of people often differ, 20Q must do its best to sort out conflicting information. Contradictions are also one of the main ways that 20Q learns more about something. If enough people contradict what it currently thinks, it slowly changes its mind about that subject and eventually the contradictions will no longer happen." Try 20Q!

This brief post on Boing-Boing let's you know some of the magazines available and soon to be available on DVD. Anybody's collections include some of these already?

Welcome librarians, MLS candidates, and other interested pursuers of knowledge; welcome one and all to Library Science Jeopardy. Just like the popular television version, the primary rule remains to provide your answer in the form of a question. There are six categories to select from, each containing five answers in ascending order of difficulty. Click on any of these from the game board below and you will encounter your first answer. Below the answer will appear four possibly correct questions, from which you must select the correct question. If you are of the competitive sort, you might want to have pencil and paper handy to keep score. There are no prizes, but, if you guess correctly, you will win an expanded explanation of the correct question.