If you’ve ever seen a vanity plate, take a few seconds and post a comment on the Facebook Plate Show page. What, you’ve never seen a vanity plate? Well, go to Plate Show on Facebook and take a look… then post a comment! 🙂
At Libraries, Quiet Makes a Comeback
The buzzing of smartphones, the clacking of computer keys, the chatter of study groups: Academic libraries aren’t the quiet temples to scholarship they used to be. Personal portable technology takes some of the blame. So does the current pedagogical emphasis on group work. In response to students’ devices and habits, many libraries have installed coffee shops and embraced the learning-commons model of design, creating wired spaces where groups can gather and plug in.
Library quiet is making a comeback, though, in part because students themselves are asking for it. “Students crave quiet as much as they crave conversation,” says Karen G. Schneider, director for library services at Holy Names University, in Oakland, Calif., and proprietor of the Free Range Librarian blog. “A lot of libraries are zoning their space into areas where there can be quiet conversation, absolute silence, and even livelier conversations.”
» via The Chronicle of Higher Education (Subscription may be required for some content)
I just discovered that an Urban Dictionary definition I wrote was chosen as their “Urban Word of the Day” back in February. It’s something I wrote a few years ago, as I fondly reminisced my days of rolling deep in a ‘86 Fiero GT, which was often “feeling” the condition I so aptly described here…but no love from the voting population—wow!
Auto insurers are accelerating efforts to use information about how you drive to set your rates.
WSJA warning to motorists who take speed limits as suggestions, screech around tight turns or favor extra-long road trips: You might not like where the auto-insurance industry is heading.
Full Story: Wall Street Journal
1984 was the wrong title.
Mighty Mouse, Downsizer WSP
This little gun was manufactured by the Downsizer Corp in Santee, CA. Only 100 would be made before the California State Government passed SB-15 baning handguns considered “unsafe” by the CA state govt.
It comes in 9mm, .40SW, .45acp, and .357 magnum.
Hey, look… It’s an “unsafe” handgun!
There is absolutely almost NOTHING cool about Santee, CA.