Jason Griffey

In honor of the upcoming publication of Neil Gaiman's first Sandman work in several years (Endless Nights), a quote about librarians:

“Most people don't realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of a culture was solely related to how many librarians it contained.Possibly a slight overstatement. But a culture that doesn't value its librarians doesn't value ideas and without ideas, well, where are we?”
 Neil Gaiman The Sandman. Line spoken by Lucien, Librarian of the Dreaming.

For those of you who have been unlucky enough to have missed this amazing series completely, the Library of the Dreaming figures prominently in several stories (to be fair, Gaiman did largely steal the library from Jorge Luis Borges, but most of his best ideas are stolen…he weaves them in ways others envy, though.)

In North Carolina political news:

Edwards in blogland. Senator Edwards has launched a blog. Built on Slash, with ratings, and a special icon to signal staff postings, the site has local (well, state) blogs linked to the national blog as well. [Lessig Blog]

“The Future is here, it just isn't evenly distributed yet.”
                                                   –William Gibson

For those of you who haven't been introduced into the bizarre world of the Cthulu mythos, Kuro5hin comes to the rescue with a brief introduction. Great pulp horror, wierd and Victorian and completely different than other types of horror that most people are familiar with. Much more psychological, with characters that literally lose their mind when they see things that the human mind can't understand or accept.

In the interest of full disclosure, this IS coming from someone who bought his wife a stuffed Elder God.

Has anyone see my face?

I believe that I had it rocked off last night.

Busy, busy weekend. First off was a birthday lunch at PF Changs for Karen that ended up in the mall for many more hours than is probably healthy. Saturday was a failed bicycle riding attempt with Jean and Justin (maybe next weekend?) and today = Counting Crows/John Mayer concert at Alltel in Raleigh. Then…more school.

I've decided that I really like school…I just don't want to do the damn work right now.

Baseball pics are up!

http://www.ibiblio.org/griffey/gallery/bulls2003

Thanks to all the feedback from yesterdays post, it looks like I will be switching over to Jones' Virtual Communities class.

This has a lot to do with the fact that I'm just not really having fun in Ethics. It seems like a good class, and would be good….it just seems like a big review to me, having done much of this sort of thing previously. Virtual Communities seems like it would be more fun, and quite frankly as an elective, I'd rather have fun.

Second day of school. Faced with dilemma. Please help.

I'm currently enrolled in Information Ethics with Dr. Wildemuth. It appears to be a good class, and it will cover a lot of ground that I think I will enjoy.

However, I would really like to take Paul Jones' class in Virtual Communities. Which, of course, meets at the same time.

So…with no other info: what do you all think?

This is one of the cooler things I've seen in the world of Information Ethics in a long while. Privacy Activism has put together a Flash game which wraps up a TON of useful information for college students in one place: privacy, online tracking, copyright infringment….just tons of interesting things. Check it out.

from the Wired Article….
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Learning to Play the Prying Game. Privacy Activism seeks to illustrate the pitfalls awaiting newly minted college students through a new Flash game. Will Carabella be hounded by identity thieves and data aggregators? Play and find out. By Ryan Singel. [Wired News]