to the or not to the – that is the question

The annual Ig Nobel Prizes are meant to honor scientific achievements that “first make people laugh, and then make them think,” according to the founders at science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research.
What grabbed my attention this year was this year’s Ig Nobel Chemistry Prize, which was awarded to a Japanese (who else)  scientist for developing [...]

10 second skyscraper construction

 i found these japanese time lapse videos the other day on youtube. v cool.
1. skyscraper constuction in shinjuku

2. a typical day in tokyo

23 things

we librarians are really into buzzwords like lifelong learning and professional development and stuff like that. as i type, over 1000 staff in public libraries across the state are taking part in this self paced lifelong learning/professional development course which looks at ‘23 things’ related to library/web 2.0.  the concept of 23 things came from steven abram’s (see previous post) 43 things .
it’s been [...]

are you with it?

 
The TS posse had a mini field trip to the state library to hear what Steve Abram, international librarian and ‘lighthouse thinker’, had to say about the 2.0 world and library involvement.  Amongst the many things that he said I found this diagram which was part of his sideshow slideshow quite interesting [click to enlarge].
Basically, this Forrester survey [...]

how to trick boys into doing paper crafts in the library

 
last week we came up with a cunning plan to get boys to come to our origami workshop which was part of a school holiday activity run by the library.  enter, the SHURIKEN NINJA STAR. we had just under 30 kids sitting around the library making stuff which we had only [...]

melbourne laneways in second life. NOOOOOOOO

i think i am going to be forced to join second life to check this out… 
“The Project Factory is pleased to announce the launch of its interpretation of the architecture of Melbourne’s Laneways in the popular virtual world, Second Life. Commissioned by Multimedia Victoria and Acumentum, the project uses real-life images of graffiti, architecture and [...]

daiquiri anyone?

one day a guy walked into the library and asked to take a photo from the window of a big mother fucker glittering stilleto that was on the roof of the theature across the road.  it turns out that he was the publicist for Priscilla Queen of the Desert the musical which was playing at that theatre.  jill [...]