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  • Jessamyn West
    8:17 am Tue, Jan 26, 2010
    Make your own mossarium!

    Moss is awesome! And simple to keep alive even if you travel. Moss had its heyday back at the turn of the last century when both the US and the… Read the rest of the article: Make your own mossarium!

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  • Jessamyn West
    7:16 am Tue, Jan 26, 2010
    The longest-running open source project: US Federal Depository libraries

    The Federal Depository library Program (FDLP) is a geographically dispersed network of 1250 libraries around the US who for over 150 years have worked with the Government Printing Office (GPO)… Read the rest of the article: The longest-running open source project: US Federal Depository libraries

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  • Jessamyn West
    6:53 pm Mon, Jan 25, 2010
    Librarians for Fair Access resists exclusive content contracts

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/jblyberg/ / CC BY 2.0 Library database vendor EBSCO now has exclusive deals with content providers — Time, Inc., and Forbes. Libraries who had been getting access to this same… Read the rest of the article: Librarians for Fair Access resists exclusive content contracts

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  • Jessamyn West
    2:23 pm Mon, Jan 25, 2010
    The unbearable awfulness of pine mouth

    Serious Eats is curious if you've ever experienced Pine Mouth, a long-lasting metallic taste in your mouth after eating pine nuts. Roger Hyam's blog post outlines the issue and links… Read the rest of the article: The unbearable awfulness of pine mouth

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  • Jessamyn West
    10:55 am Mon, Jan 25, 2010
    Robots + Monsters reopens today, donations to aid Haitan relief

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/joealterio/ / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Robots + Monsters will be reopening on Monday January 25th, with the donations going to Doctors Without Borders and their Haiti efforts. From their press… Read the rest of the article: Robots + Monsters reopens today, donations to aid Haitan relief

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  • Jessamyn West
    7:26 am Mon, Jan 25, 2010
    310 class photos from 80 years of PS 99 in Queens NY

    "The story of any community is mostly about its people, not its streets and buildings. The P.S. 99 class photographs taken over the years are one of the best records… Read the rest of the article: 310 class photos from 80 years of PS 99 in Queens NY

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  • Jessamyn West
    7:59 pm Sun, Jan 24, 2010
    Illuminated 15th c. Manuscript – full of hidden demons

    The Morgan Library in New York is currenty exhibiting one of the great masterworks of medieval illumination, the Hours of Catherine of Cleves. All 157 miniatures have also been digitized.

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  • Jessamyn West
    11:18 am Sun, Jan 24, 2010
    Superman – The 1948 Serial

    "The Superman serial was a 1948 15-part black-and-white movie serial starring an unaccredited Kirk Alyn (but billed only by his character name, Superman) and Noel Neill as Lois Lane. It… Read the rest of the article: Superman – The 1948 Serial

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  • Jessamyn West
    10:12 am Sun, Jan 24, 2010
    music for/by the birds

    French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot has created "a walk-through aviary for a flock of zebra finches, and furnished them with electric guitars and other instruments" at the Barbican Gallery. Same project,… Read the rest of the article: music for/by the birds

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