File in the “my goodness the Internet is a large den of insanity” file: the strangest LiveJournal ever…this reads like Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs meets Beavis. Just…wow.
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Month: May 2004
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Post Graduation
I find all I want to do is sleep. 🙂 I should be doing about a billion things (not the least of which is finishing the article from the Master’s Paper), but somehow all enthusiasm is gone for the moment.
I guess I should just revel in the week, and sleep. Betsy keeps telling me I deserve it, so it must be true. Right?
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Graduation pictures up!
For anyone interested, my pictures of the UNC SILS graduation are up now.
We’ll return to our regularly scheduled updates and musings shortly.
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Congratulations!
To all the 2004 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science Master’s Degree recipients!
I look forward to seeing tons of you over the summer, and many more over the course of the next bunch o’ years at conferences and such.
Thanks to everyone who helped me get this far (you all know who you are).
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Sorry to be missing…
…but I’ve been overwhelmed by visitors and family and graduation festivities! Graduation is tomorrow here at UNC-Chapel Hill, so the town has been invaded by families of all shapes and sizes.
Ah…who am I kidding. I’m just late posting because I’ve been playing with my new 40-gig iPod for the last 8 hours. 🙂 Yay for graduation presents! And thanks to everyone out there who chipped in for it..Betsy went above and beyond the call to rake in the dough for it. You are all very, very special.
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Hey all you friends out there!
It occurs to me that some of you may have borrowed media of a sort from me over the last couple of years (books, movies, etc…). Before everyone scatters to the four winds, I’d love to get that stuff back. 🙂 You probably know who you are….
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File in the “Free Country?” category….
Miramax, a film company owned by the Walt Disney Corporation and home to such diverse films as Kill Bill and Shakespeare in Love has pulled the distribution of Michael Moore’s latest film Farenheit 9/11.
Why? Because they “expressed particular concern that it would endanger tax breaks Disney receives for its theme park, hotels and other ventures in Florida, where Mr. Bush’s brother, Jeb, is governor” according to the story via the NYT.
Wow…this is wrong on so many levels that I can’t even begin to list them. Isn’t there something that should protect this speech from political retaliation of this sort? A company, based in a state, fears retaliation from the governor because the film that said company is producing is critical of his brother, who happens to be the president of the US.
Wow.
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Head on over…
…and check out the most excellent article from Eli Edwards on the Internet Archive, soon to appear in Information Technology and Libraries.
A very, very good summary of the issues dealing with the archival of the Internet, as well as some insightful things about the role of libraries/librarians and the public/private dynamic. Great stuff, Eli!