Miscellaneous & Odd-ball

Who owns the moon? Now that would have been a good Stump the Librarian question. From the Moritz Legal Information Blog: The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) is a good place to …

Give that old computer a new life. Don’t Trash Your Old PC from Law.com is a step-by-step guide on how to use an old PC as a primary or backup server. In this age of …

The LRB has put together a nice, two-page guide on the Wisconsin Idea which explores its origins, importance, and future. What is the Wisconsin Idea? From the the guide: The most commonly offered definition of …

MissPronouncer.com is a neat little site for “learning to pronounce stuff in Wisconsin.” From place names to politicians, this site will have you speaking like a native Wisconsinite.

From Odd Wisconsin: On John Muir’s dorm room at the University of Wisconsin – Madison campus in the early 1860s: “I can vividly recall the tall clock which he made,” wrote Grace Lindsley in 1935, …

Today’s Odd Wisconsin is a classic The first legislature in 1838 met in a not-quite-finished Capitol building: According to one lawmaker, “the basement story was all open, and [a] large drove of hogs had taken …

Posted to our faculty listserv: Two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 this morning, the time and date was 01:02:03 04/05/06 That won’t happen again for a thousand years.

Posted to our faculty listserv: Two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 this morning, the time and date was 01:02:03 04/05/06 That won’t happen again for a thousand years.

Yesterday, the University of Wisconsin Madison’s School of Library and Information Studies took part in the 8th Annual International Edible Books Festival. This festival invites participants to poke fun at literature, art, and food in …

“Papa, there’s a black hole behind you” – my five-year-old’s version of an April Fool’s joke.