Posted in Geekery, Life on the Net on Dec 5th, 2006
I like to think of myself as a computer geek and an internet geek. I’ve built computers and installed many different flavors of many different operating systems over the years. I’ve been on the internet so long that I remember what it was like before the web and all the pretty pictures (no, I’m not [...]
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Posted in Allegedly Funny, Geekery, Radio, Science on Nov 24th, 2006
For it is the day after Thanksgiving, and Talk of the Nation Science Friday broadcasts the highlights of this year’s Ig Nobel Prizes!
Ira! Ira! Ira!
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So, what do geek librarians in training do on a rainy Friday afternoon? We translate the Dewey Decimal System into Binary, of course! (For those of you who are unfamiliar with binary numbers, the following article from Wikipedia will tell you more than you probably ever wished to know: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_numeral_system)
So, here I present the much [...]
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