Archive | September, 2008

Transgender Va. Woman Wins Discrimination Lawsuit

Washington Post – “A federal judge ruled yesterday that a former special forces commander was discriminated against when officials at the Library of Congress revoked a job offer after learning she was transitioning from being a man to a woman”

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35% of Professionals Would Choose BlackBerry Over Spouse

ABA Journal – “Professionals have a love-hate relationship with their BlackBerrys, and in some cases it’s interfering with their marriages.”

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Which Reference Books Have to Be in Your Library?

Freakonomics – “Our resident quote bleggar Fred Shapiro, editor of the Yale Book of Quotations, is back with another request.”

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Care and Feeding of Bookworms


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Palin Strikes Fear in Libraries

Francine Fialkoff – “The more we hear about Palin, the less we trust her.”

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EFF sues U.S. over NSA surveillance program

CNET News – “The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Bush administration on behalf of AT&T customers to halt what it called the “massively illegal” warrantless surveillance of Americans’ Internet and telephone communications”

More about the case here.

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Residents upset over library restrooms

6abc.com – “This branch and another on North Clinton Avenue have no restrooms for the public. Only employees can use the bathrooms in these old buildings and patrons say that’s unfair.”

Take a look at the video.  The library signage people are going to be up in arms. 

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FriendFeed solves noise problem with redesign, duplicate roll-up

Webware -  “On Thursday afternoon social aggregator FriendFeed pushed out its new look to all its users”

And it’s really user friendly, as we all come to expect from FF.

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Professor Wikipedia

From CollegeHumor

I tried to embed the video, but it didn’t work.  Pretty funny.

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Harvard professor sees answers to nagging Web-youth issues

CNET News – “John Palfrey, one of Harvard’s leading thinkers on the Internet, has recently finished a study on kids raised in the digital age. He now has a few tips to share about Web porn, online piracy, and Sen. John McCain’s lack of tech know-how.”

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