{"id":181,"date":"2008-02-28T20:12:26","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T03:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2008\/02\/a-few-worthwhile-things-from-the-internet"},"modified":"2008-02-28T22:05:18","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T05:05:18","slug":"a-few-worthwhile-things-from-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2008\/02\/a-few-worthwhile-things-from-the-internet","title":{"rendered":"a few worthwhile things from the internet"},"content":{"rendered":"

coral snake fights alligator thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Every so often I rue the fact that this part of my website is really more of a journally thing than a bloggy thing. Sometimes I have internet things that I want to refer to that don’t fit on librarian.net<\/a>. This is one of those times. Here are those things. <\/p>\n

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  1. I made a post on MetaFilter<\/a> about a chapter in the excellent book my friend Matthew gave me. The book is called Amazing Rare Things<\/a>, about the history of nature illustrations with tons of lovely drawings, and the chapter I found links for was about The Paper Museum<\/a>\n
  2. My friend Adriana made a few great posts on her blog about the poetry of ASL. You may want to read Flying Words<\/a> and Good Things<\/a>. A while ago I also made a post on MetaFilter about my favorite at-the-time YouTube trend of people who spoke sign language doing signed versions of popular songs. I guess it’s standard fare for ASL classes, and some of the people whose songs I enjoyed were clearly hearing folks, but I had a good time watching people signing songs I was familiar with and perhaps you will too<\/a>. And, amusingly, my favorite of all these is a Mexican Sign Language version of Hips Don’t Lie<\/a> (originally by Shakira) who is a singer Adriana turned me on to originally.\n
  3. I am speaking on a panel at SXSW next weekend. My panel is called Social Network Coups: The Users Are Revolting<\/a>. It’s amusing because the name of the libraryland book I co-edited has the word Revolting in the title too<\/a> and yet has nothing to do with this. The panel is on Saturday at 5 pm at the same time as seventeen other SXSWi events. If you’re nearby, stop on in, but I’ll understand if you don’t.\n
  4. Someone else on MetaFilter helped me remember a book that I loved from when I was a kid: The Animated Thumbtack Railroad Dollhouse and All-Around Surprise Book<\/a>! by Louis Phillips and Lynn Braswell. As I related to someone, I can remember going to visit my great grandmother in Pennsylvania and she had this book, among other things as distractions for us kids while the adults did that boring “sit around and talk” thing they always did. I loved it and its wacky humor and think it went a good ways towards my love of Donald Barthelme<\/a> later on in my adult life.<\/ol>\n

    I can’t remember what else there was I wanted to show you, but I may add it here at some later date if I remember.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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