Miscellaneous & Odd-ball

Here’s a fun one from LibrarianInBlack: The Vinyl Record Generator. Create a record with any text you choose for the artist, song title, and producer. You even get to choose between a 78 and a …

A survey commissioned by the women’s cable TV network, Oxygen, found the technology gender gap has virtually closed with the majority of women snapping up new technology and using it easily. Three of four women …

From LibrarianInBlack: The Comic Strip Generator lets you choose from hundreds of different comic templates and create little strips panel by panel.

I took a walk over to the UW-Madison Botany Garden this afternoon and captured this photo of the pond. I believe that the beautiful bloom is an American lotus. [thanks to MB for the correction] …

From Today’s Onion*: Wikipedia, the online, reader-edited encyclopedia, honored the 750th anniversary of American independence on July 25 with a special featured section on its main page Tuesday. *Don’t you believe it. The Onion is …

Kyle MacDonald has done it: traded a paper clip up to a house. Read more at Reuters Oddly Enough.

I’m off to St. Louis for the American Association of Law Libraries Annual meeting so posting on WisBlawg will probably be light next week. However, I may be posting about the meeting on AALL Gateway, …

One of those magical pursuits of childhood, my kids have a fascination with catching fireflies. Last weekend, equipped with butterfly net and bug house, we journeyed to Lake Kegonsa State Park for what turned out …

Nichole, a Madison librarian who volunteers with the Jail Library Group has compiled a fascinating Flikr collection of “things I find abandoned in books or stuffed on the book cart at the [Dane County] jail …

MADreads reviews a pretty funny sounding book called Yes Man about a man that literally said yes to everything for a year. Here’s the review: Yes, yes, a thousand times yes! By Sarah – Alicia …