that awkward moment when it’s the Apocalypse and death forces you to eat pizza
If you don’t love death you’re wrong.
Death is the best, and if you don’t think so, you can go home.
He also has *phenomenal* taste in deep-dish.
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Who else but the librarian is going to teach attribution and Creative Commons? Who else but the librarian is going to be able to filter through millions of research results, then curate and create a playlist of amazing resources in just a few minutes for the eager student? We are vital and we are valuable! Now let’s go out there, step up up our game, and spread the word!
Gwyneth Jones, Who Needs A Librarian When You Have Google? (via librarylinknj)
These are some of the reasons I think the internet is making librarians more necessary, not less.
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I teach a whole module on veracity of information, the CRAAP test, and why the “hidden” web is much better for research than google… and when to use google and wikipedia. Because there’s a time and a place. You should never be citing anything from wikipedia in your paper, but Wikipedia is a great place to start if you have absolutely no knowledge of a topic. It can give you key words to search for and background to do proper research. Back in the day, it was safe to say that most books in the library were appropriate for research and school papers. Now we have more e-books than physical books in our holdings, and we subscribe to dozens of databases that literally have MILLIONS of articles and THOUSANDS of publications in them. It is an issue of signal versus noise ratio. There is SO MUCH out there, how do you find exactly what you need? And how do you make sure it isn’t crap? THAT is why we need librarians.
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Sasha Obama Suspicious After Doing A Little Digging Around On Benghazi: Full Report
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DiCaprio and Mulligan, meanwhile, don’t seem like star-crossed lovers so much as a delusional man in love with a bauble of a woman. Maybe that’s intentional?
People Magazine’s review on ‘The Great Gatsby’
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I know there’s been much ado about the owner of Abercrombie and Fitch criticizing ugly people while many here consider him to be ugly. I could go on about whether this is or isn’t hypocritical on either front and about the subjective meaning of beauty and all that but I want to address something I feel is more important and that’s the comparison of the man in question to an orc.
Most of the memes resulting from this controversy have shown Gothmog alongside their C.E.O., and I want to talk about why that’s wrong.
Gothmog served in Sauron’s army during the War of the Ring, as the lieutenant of Minas Morgul, second-in-command to the Witch-king of Angmar, lord of the nine Nazgûl. He took command of the forces of Morgul during the Battle of the Pelennor Fields after the Witch-king was slain by Éowyn. That makes him a veteran and I don’t care what side he fought for, the point is he fought for what he believed in and did so with exceptional nobility. It was he who called for Grond to break down the gates of Minas Tirith, it was he who was nearly crushed when the white city launched chunks of massive stone on his location, moving only at the final moment to survive. All with a tumor on his head the size of a grapefruit. And tumblr has made him the standard of ugliness.
I don’t give a damn about Abercrombie guy, but to reduce one of if not the greatest of orcs to an ugly joke just to mock the guy in unfair and ignorant.
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Please, if you or someone you know has depression, click through the link and read this.
exactly what I needed today
This is the most accurate thing I’ve ever seen in my life. I highly recommend reading the whole thing.
Yup
So glad she’s back. And continuing to nail it.
A Stop-Motion History of Typography.
Brilliant.
Really interesting
THIS CAT IS ASKING TO BE PETTED IT IS ACTUALLY ASKING THIS IS THE MOST POLITE CAT IN THE WORLD AND IT’S GOING TO KILL ME
STOP IT, self-help manatee. I actually just cried because of LAST MONTH.
Thank you, self-help manatee. I needed that.
This is just beautiful.
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friendship?
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Tywin vs Olenna: A Summary
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“That seems sort of harmless but then it kind of gets a little darker and sort of accuses these young pop artists of being part of this cycle where girls read magazines, feel terrible about themselves ‘cause its says “you should be skinnier, you should be prettier”. They feel terrible, and then these pop stars tell them that they’re perfect and that they’re beautiful and they buy the songs and then the popstar’s on the cover of the magazine so they buy a magazine again and it’s sort of this vicious cycle and I sort of implied he’s working for Satan or whatever.”
(Source: kazuos, via dirkydirkandthefunkybunch)
