 Sunday, December 29, 2002bookmarks in LibrariesThe folks at bookmarks magazine have sent me their first two issues for free. I have to say that I'm really torn about this particular serial. Their tag line is "for everyone who hasn't read everything," and the November/December issue reviews more than 60 books. On the one hand, I think every public library should subscribe to it. I interlibrary loaned most of the children's titles recommended in the first issue, and the reviews were right on target (the kids loved them). The downside to the magazine, if you can call it a downside, is that I feel like more of a stooge than ever that I don't read books anymore. I could list several titles from each issue that sound interesting, but I know I won't get to them, which makes me kind of sad. And thanks to publisher paranoia and short-sightedness, none of the books found in these pages that I would want to read are available via Audible. When I was a reference librarian at a public library, I avidly read all of the PW, LJ, etc. reviews, so reading bookmarks is a real treat for me. So two thumbs up for bookmarks, two thumbs down for fear-based publishers, and two thumbs sideways for a growing list of titles I'll read when I retire someday far in the future. RSS Heaven(s) Crossed With Geographical Meta TagsI can't remember who was looking for this, but Syndic8 shows a scraped RSS feed for the excellent Astronomy Picture of the Day. Thanks to Perceive Designs (aka Eric Vitiello Jr.) for providing it, along with a bunch of weather feeds (including Chicago)! (Note: I'm getting an "channeltitle" error when I try to subscribe to the Chicago feed in Radio's aggregator. Darn.) Visiting their site also produced a link to the GeoURL ICBM Address Server, a site I hadn't seen before.
Here's what you do:
So, I'm telling others, and I'm going to try adding the meta tags to my own site. I don't know if this attempt will go anywhere, but it might be an interesting way to identify Prairie Bloggers and other geographically-joined groups somewhere down the road.
I'll have to try this one at work tomorrow. Last night, we played the greatest game in the world with one of Kailee's friends and the friend's mom. You do have to know how to read to play it, so Brent usually just watches from the sidelines or sits with an adult and "supervises." Except that he's got a few dozen Yu-Gi-Oh trading cards these days, so he decided to play using those cards. He did surprisingly well with them and almost won. Just some advice in case you want to spice up your Apples to Apples play. Then tonight, we decided to let the kids spend some of the money they received from relatives for Christmas. Both wanted video games. Brent wanted to go to Gamestop, where he picked up a fighter pilot game. It was a tough visit because most of the games he wants to play are rated T for teen or M for mature and we won't let him play those. Kailee wanted to go to Best Buy to pick up the Marine Mania and Dinosaur Digs expansion packs for Zoo Tycoon. Both kids have been entrenched tonight. It's interesting how Brent has gone down the game console path, while Kailee prefers computer games. Blogs Officially 'It'Many people have declared blogs officially "mainstream," especially after the whole Trent Lott debacle, however, I have the definitive proof. From the January, 2003, issue of Ladies Home Journal, I bring you "Their Heart on Their Screen."
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