Happy Halloween!
The Guardian has the story of Halloween all linked up.
[TT] The Guardian
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
1:27:07 PM
Lee not Dumbledore
There is no truth to the rumors than Christopher Lee is replacing Richard Harris as Dumbledore in the Harry Potter movies.
[TT] The Leaky Cauldron & Christopher Lee Web
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
1:25:29 PM
Bush opponent followed?
What happens when President Bush disagrees with your politics? In the case of Gabe Hudson, he has you followed by the FBI.
[TT] ctnow.com
[EDITOR'S NOTE] Hudson later admitted that he made this story up.
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
11:36:15 AM
Jesse Helms saves the day?!
Outgoing Sen. Jesse Helms blocked a bill on webcast copyright fees because religious, classical, and college radio stations weren't consulted in the construction of the fee structure.
This prompted SoundExchange, the company that collects the fees for the RIAA, to announce that they were, for now, going to charge a small flat rate instead of the per song fee until such time as the legislation is passed.
[TT] CNN.com
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
11:32:40 AM
Virginia anti-porn law
An anti-internet porn law in Virginia is being heard this week.
[TT] News.com
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
11:23:40 AM
USA PATRIOT Act
How often is the Department of Justice invoking the USA PATRIOT ACT to monitor people living in the U.S.? They're not saying much, but what they are saying is interesting. For example, so far they have received 450 complaints from people about their treatment by DOJ reps.
[TT] Law.com
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
11:20:07 AM
In CENSOROUND!
The following post is available in CENSOROUND!
First off, It's Perfectly Normal and It's So Amazing were removed from libraries in Montgomery County, TX because they contained endorsements of homosexuality.
Next up is an article about librarians' opposition to mandatory Web filtering under CIPA, which will be ruled upon by the Supreme Court this term.
Finally, Rolling Stone has been removed from a Livingston, MT high school library because it's gotten all slutty. Okay, that's not the official reason, but it's true nonetheless.
[TT] The Courier, New Haven Register & Montana Forum
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
11:43:00 AM
Oh, how I wish this link weren't broken!
In consideration of the fact that my last post isn't exactly the sort of up-beat stuff that gets you primed and ready for the weekend, I offer this link: My Novel Addresses Universal Themes Of Humanity And Has Fucking.
[TT] The Onion
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
4:48:16 PM
RIP Richard Harris, Paul Wellstone, Adolph Green
Speaking of Harry Potter, the Chi Lib Rocks blog recently linked to the very cool Harry Potter Automatic News Aggregator, which today features the very uncool news that Richard Harris has died.
On the subject of death, both Sen. Paul Wellstone and lyricist/writer Adolph Green have died in the past 24 hours.
[TT] BBC News via Harry Potter Automatic News Aggregator via Chi Lib Rocks
[TT] Yahoo! News
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
4:23:36 PM
Eighth Harry Potter?
The rumor that J.K. Rowling may write an eigth Harry Potter book is pretty funny when you consider the fact that she's having trouble getting out a fifth book.
[TT] BBC News
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
4:12:11 PM
Public domain overseas
Forget that "libraries are the Napster of books" thing. The Online Books Page has a page of novels that, while in the public domain internationally, are still copyrighted in the U.S. They believe that if a U.S. citizen downloads a book here, it would be legally akin to downloading a copyrighted song.
[TT] Online Books Page
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
4:43:47 PM
Two Towers protest?
I blame The Onion for warping my mind to the point where I can't tell if this Web site is supposed to be funny or serious.
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
4:19:09 PM
Google nixes hate group sites
Google has removed hate group links from their French & German databases to comply with anti-hate speech laws in those countries.
[TT] ZD Net Australia
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
4:13:08 PM
Guardian kidlit list
The Guardian has a great list of children's books. It includes Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, no doubt to the dismay of the guy who made this video.
[TT] Guardian Unlimited Books
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
2:29:00 PM
Middle Earth maps
If you're like me and have an old paperback edition of Lord of the Rings and can't make heads nor tails out of the tiny little maps, here are some maps of Middle Earth. Thank goodness for bored nerds!
[TT] via Google
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
11:26:00 AM
Yay, another lame Conan joke
Who wants to be the "Conan the Librarian" (as the reporter so lamely puts it) that helps the ACLU challenge the USA PATRIOT Act?
[TT] MSNBC
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
4:38:27 PM
HTML fixed
Okay, I've fixed the HTML so L.A.C.K. just fills your entire screen with librarianistic goodness. Unless you're using Netscape. To those ten percent of visitors to this site, I apologize.
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
1:54:52 PM
Another L.A.C.K. redesign
All the pages indexed to the left are now chockful of content.
I'll get into the full swing of updating tomorrow. Most likely, I won't be isolating the posts about Harry Potter or John Ashcroft as I did in the past, but my past experience with search results indicates to me that no one looking for them will have trouble finding them.
Right now, the only design quirk that's bugging me is that these pages are supposed to fill the entire browser window. However, there's some white space around the edges when I first open a page. I don't know if this is a problem for you, but I'll take a look at my HTML coding and see if I can fix it.
[EDITOR'S NOTE] I hand code my HTML, which can be a pain, especially when I'm trying to make my site compatable with four different browsers. I used to have IE, Mozilla, Opera, and Netscape on my computer to test stuff out. Now I'm using Firefox at home and IE at work (the IT department here won't let me download Firefox due to security concerns), so I just hope that this looks good in Opera.
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
11:42:27 AM
Return of the L.A.C.K.
L.A.C.K. is back.
[EDITOR'S NOTE] I rather abruptly discontinued L.A.C.K. in May 2002. I'm sure I had my reasons.
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
4:13:56 PM
