Sheila Chilcote-Collins has created a list (through Amazon’s listmania) of the 25 weirdest things you can buy on Amazon. My favorites were the Sugar Free Milk Chocolate Dipped Pork Rinds and Mr. Poopy the Octopus.
The authors of the forthcoming recipe book Dewey or Don’t We? Librarians Cook are looking for submissions! Recipes will be accepted until June 20, 2004. LiB submitted two recipes, so look for some super yummy vegetarian entrees 
The Shining in 30 seconds, and re-enacted by bunnies. Like it? Try The Exorcist in 30 seconds, also re-enacted by bunnies.
European researchers introduced Eurocrypt, a piece of software that illuminates what’s behind all those blacked out sections of government documents. Very cool. Now, how can I get my hands on this software?
As promised, Torin is now on the Infinite Cat Project site. I sent his photo in last night, and there are already two cats after him! Sometimes the speed of the internet surprises even me
Cats looking at cats looking at cats looking at cats… Take a picture of your cat looking at a monitor which bears the image of the LAST picture in the sequence of the Infinite Cat Project. Look for Torin on the site sometime soon 
Michael Stephens’s Tame the Web article, 10 Things A Library Can Do to Boost their Techie Stuff (without breaking the bank), is a must-read for every techie or management librarian. Want ideas on how to get up to date quickly & cheaply? Here ya go. And it’s all about redundant access to the same information. Send news about your library out via a blog (an RSS-ified one at that)–not just through flyers in the library and a newsletter. Conduct reference interviews not only at the desk and on the phone, but through instant messaging too! Thanks to Michael for a great article.
A fun ransom note generator (also from J-Walk…check out his blog if you haven’t yet…very funny).
The Top 100 Library Books list is most interesting. Based on OCLC holdings, In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-run Companies by Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr. is #1 at 3,971. I was pleased to see that Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes was #7. Lots of Reference books in this list…only natural, I guess.
link via J-Walk blog
I can’t even remember where I heard about this, but it’s a great site. AuditMyPC.com will (for free) do a firewall test, a spyware removal test, and a pop-up blocker test on your PC. I was all-set on firewall & spyware, but was interested to find that my PC failed 2 of the 9 pop-up blocker tests, even though I have AdsGone 2004, updated yesterday. Hum. Audit yourself and let me know what you find
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