Humor

If so, this time of year must make you really nervous! Samhain (sometimes called Samain) was an ancient Pagan festival, where giant fires were built to frighten away the dead walked the Earth on that night. Over time, the ritual migrated into prayers for those who died “unpure” and eventually was called Halligan [...]

A relatively new library humor blog that I stumbled upon today. I am pretty sure that the Duggan doesn’t own any of these titles, and I’m grateful for that, no matter how curious I may be about “Dee Snider’s Teenage Survival Guide.”

Guys, guys, Wolfram Alpha went live on Friday! I can already hear you thinking: Wow, Wolfram Alpha…what the heck is that?
The answer, gentle readers, is that Wolfram Alpha is a new search engine, and arguably a new breed of search engine – a semantic search engine, if you must know.
Consider: You ask it a series of [...]

A friend shared with me this animated sketch about Twitter. And, while humorous, also confirmed some of my own thoughts about why I haven’t been tempted to open up a Twitter account. (Of course, I am also the same guy who just a year ago said that I couldn’t see the value in having a [...]

So, it turns out that there was, for a while, a major center of piracy on the Ohio River, particularly the western Ohio River (along the KY-IL border). Pirates, even river pirates, have apparently long been a hot topic in literature, particularly juvenile literature.

To substantiate that claim, we have put up a mini-display featuring three [...]