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Chicago Sinfonietta:

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Please turn ON your Cell Phones! Ring in our 20th Season with the World Premiere of David Baker’s Concertino for Cell Phones and Orchestra — bring your phone and play a part in this history-making event!

The concertino calls for the audience and members of the orchestra’s percussion section to utilize their cellular phones at various points throughout the piece. Audience members will be divided into different sections and cued with red and green lights to turn on and off their phones. They will also be encouraged to randomly increase and decrease the volume of their ring tones and try to recognize familiar tune fragments on the ring tones sounding on orchestra members’ cell phones, Baker said.

This is too cool -

Temple of Nod mod by Edvuld. Check out the whole project at Bit-tech.net

Hey! The L I B R A R Y right in your home town does this - no shipping, no waiting…unless you want something we don’t have, then you need to wait a little while until it arrives, but still no shipping…

While I still think this is a great site and idea, I wish people would consider their local public libraries first.
BookMooch

BookMooch is a community for exchanging used books.
BookMooch lets you give away books you no longer need in exchange for books you really want.

No cost: there is no cost to join or use this web site: your only cost is mailing your books to others.

*Library = NO COST as well

Wishlist: you can keep a “book wish list” that will automatically arrive to you when you have the points and/or the book becomes available in our catalog.

*One of the coolest things about small community libraries is the fact that your local librarian(s) really get to know who reads what, and I bet before you even know your favorite author has a book to be released in 6 months, your name is on a list at the librarian’s desk to be called as soon as that book arrives. Now THAT is service!

Why create this?: if you’re passionate about books, you know how emotionally difficult it is to throw a book away, even if you will never read it again. You want to find a good home for your books, have them find someone who appreciates them. Also, you may be interested in trying a lot of books out, and keep the ones that are great. It’s a great crime to have a book disappear, out of print, for none to read. BookMooch keeps books in circulation, and finds new readers for them. If you’re interested in getting free books, you can donate to charities, the points to gain by giving your books away.

The library will take your beloved books and find them good homes, too. Either on the shelves of the library, or in book sales that have the added benefit of raising funds for the library to do all of the other cool things libraries do, which you get to attend and reap the benfits of …like concerts, art & craft workshops, book groups, story times, puppet shows, movie nights, summer reading clubs, ESl classes, computer and internet training, art exhibits,….. I could go on for quite a while!

Bottom line: love your library!

University of Iowa Libraries: About cARTalog

The cARTalog grows from the empty drawers of the University of Iowa Libraries’ main card catalog, which was retired in 2004. A small community of library staff—motivated by both nostalgia and library subculture– has come together to give the card catalog cards themselves a rebirth, in order to celebrate the role of this honorific icon within the world of libraries as well as the UI Libraries’ sesquicentennial. Project organizers were able to salvage approximately only one quarter of the UI’s card catalog for the cARTalog project; the remaining cards were hauled away to recycling. The UI Libraries is only one of several libraries that have sought to honor the waning card catalog with a lasting monument or ceremony.

blyberg.net put up a nifty catalog card generator. This is even more fun than the Library 2.0 Idea Generator.

It doesn’t get any more official than having your very own index card from the library card catalog :)

I knew the government would be involved….

ROSWELL, N.M. - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents today arrested 15 illegal aliens who were working for a local company here that is under contract to paint U.S. military aircraft, including Lockheed C-130 military aircraft.

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This is an ongoing investigation.

Original article: ICE arrests 15 aliens in Roswell working for U.S. military contractor