Jason Griffey

While tomorrow is technically the first day of school, today sure felt like it. I took part in the UNC Summer Reading discussion section, leading a discussion of 18 freshmen concerning the book Nickel And Dimed. Prior to that was work in the Serials Cataloging Department in Davis, and after it was training in the Reference Dept. in the same library. After THAT, there was a meeting in Manning for the first year SILSer's.

I'm trying desperately to not think about the fact that I have to be on campus at 8:15am for a class tomorrow. Or that Tuesdays are my longest day at school.

Freaking fabulous news from the BBC: They're putting their archives (both radio and TV) online, for free, accessible by anyone. This is just completely the coolest thing ever…hopefully this will be a model for future open information from other media creators.

Best quote of the year (I want this thing on a T-shirt):
“I believe that we are about to move into a second phase of the digital revolution, a phase which will be more about public than private value; about free, not pay services; about inclusivity, not exclusion. ” -Greg Dyke, director general of the BBC

Read the story here.

Thanks to everyone who participated in the Hizzle Last Gasp of Summer Dinner Party last night…the food was amazing from all. Hizzle needs to provide us all with the recipe for those chocolate pepper cookies, and possibly the pasta sauce as well (was it anything except tomato and mozzarella?). Trish: how do you do the Baked Brie?

I'm torn between thinking this is really freaking cool, and mildly insulting.

The Good:
“The Distributed Library Project is an experiment in sharing information and building community in the San Francisco Bay Area.”

The Bad:
“Unfortunately, the traditional library system doesn't do much to foster community. Patrons come and go, but there is very little opportunity to establish relationships with people or groups of people. In fact, if you try to talk with someone holding a book you like – you'll probably get shushed.”

The Distributed Library

Happiness is:

Sitting down and flipping on the TV to discover MTV2 playing Living Colour: Cult of Personality, followed by Guns-n-Roses: Sweet Child o' Mine. Ah, the memories.

Just in case any of you were wondering where to find me:
The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Sixth Level of Hell – The City of Dis!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Take the Dante's Divine Comedy Inferno Test

Ok….all I wanna know is: Who is interested, and how soon can I buy tickets:

From The One Ring
 “…a worldwide Dec. 16 daylong marathon, during which all three films will be shown back-to-back. Exhib guidelines call for a 3 p.m. showing of “Fellowship” followed by a 7 p.m. screening of “Two Towers” and then an 11 p.m. screening of “Return of the King,” which will carry over into Dec. 17 — the day of its global release.”

All three LOTR in a theater at the same time! Hook up the catheter and bring on the Junior Mints!

In other news, evidently the head of Earthstation 5 has great big brass balls. Of course, he/she's in Palestine, out of the range of the FBI.

Check out the Manifesto.

Found an interesting website that somehow I have missed in my www travels.

The Jenville Show
Cooking with Indie Rockstars

Especially good is the bit with Jack Black (of the Greatest Band in the World)

A very odd idea, found on boingboing. A contest site which rewards bloggers for linking to it by giving away the prize to the winner AND to the blogger who the winner clicked through to get there. It uses the refer logs to see how people are getting to them. If the prizes were better, I might think about it.

http://www.blogstakes.com/