One of the librarians’ choices was the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Take a look at the Notifiable Diseases/Deaths section. There sure is more Hansen’s Disease about than I would have thought. A coworker told me today that American FactFinder is new and improved. Woo Hoo!

There was a discussion in a seminar I went to as a part of my continuing education as a librarian where the presenter pointed out that we didn’t get into the profession we’re in by being the popular kids. In response to ALA’s popular Read posters, where celebrities pose with their favorite book (or perhaps their publicist’s favorite book), librarians pose with their favorite government document. I, however, cannot easily pose with my favorite govdocs, since I am of the digital age. But even before I joined the librarian cult, I loved the FDA’s regulatory fish encyclopedia.

If I didn’t post a pointer to The Shakespearean Insulter in July when it was first brought to my attention, I should have. I’m just a foul defacer of God’s handiwork, after all.

"Oh, darling, you’re causing an increase in activity in my right caudate nucleus and right ventral tegmental areadopamine!" One gets the feeling we’re all just bags of chemicals or something.

Hey-ho! A display company that sells to regular folks! Acrylic stands! Slatwall accessories! But best of all: Riker mounts! I’m going to mount all sorts of stuff now! (Insert your own filthy joke here.)

It’s funny because it could be true.

Conventional wisdom is the idea is "too far ahead of its time," but isn’t it long overdue to bring back the automat? Instead, McDonald’s is axing their Redbox automated food outlets (sadly, they were far more like giant vending machines than they were like automats).
In other McNews, McDonald’s doesn’t like the word McJob.

Everybody loves antique soft-core. And many people love pointers to all sorts of fleshy web sites.

Crows are, in fact, devils and demons. (Yeah, I know, it’s “screamin'”; I just always expect it to be “schemin'”)

Yep, it’s Monday again, and the mind turns to chucking it all and wandering the globe. Check out the legal requirements at the State Department’s Travel Advisory page. Or pretend you’re already an ex-pat by listening to radio in other languages while you work and browse the Foreign Groceries Museum.