Archive for the ‘Humor’ Category
Anything we thought was funny.
Posted by sachref on May 12, 2011
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Posted by sachref on February 16, 2011
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Posted by sachref on January 6, 2010
Facebook scam artists have closed out 2009 by snagging a prominent victim: Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.
On Thursday at around 10:30 a.m., Mr. Genachowski sent his Facebook friends this puzzling message: “Adam got me started making money with this.” It was followed by a link to a Web page that is no longer active. The message blitz indicated that Mr. Genachowski’s account had been taken over by a malicious program that was using it to send out spam.
Full article link here.
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Posted by sachref on November 15, 2009
“ A high school librarian in Phoenix says a former student at the school returned two overdue books checked out 51 years ago along with…” Click here or on the image for the full story with video.
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Posted by sachref on July 20, 2009
I thought everyone had already heard of the comic strip “Unshelved” by Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum, but I discovered I was mistaken. Take a peek at it on their home page:
http://www.unshelved.com/
You can subscribe and receive it daily in your e-mail, or even purchase a compilation book of older strips. It’s a comic strip about libraries and librarians and it can be really funny and definitely on-point. Take a peek.
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Posted by sachref on June 12, 2009
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Posted by sachref on May 20, 2009
“Brian MacFarlane was amazed when he looked at the photo he had captured of the bird in flight. The incredible display of mid-flight acrobatics is also a remarkable feat of wildlife photography.” Story
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Posted by sachref on April 25, 2009
“Thousands of new food products are introduced to American grocery shoppers every year, which makes us wonder: Which items are so wild that they’ve been removed from shelves permanently? We examined some of the biggest food flops over the last 40+ years. ” Full List
Ed. – Which of your favs are gone or MIA? The McDLT, Tab, Zima?
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Posted by sachref on April 17, 2009
“According to a press release from the university, the book was removed from the library by a Union soldier named C.S. Gates on June 11, 1864, when the institution, then known as Washington College, was looted by the Union Army…missing for more than 100 years, but a volume checked out of the Harvard College library and returned in 1997 was more than 233 years overdue when it was finally returned.” Full Story
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Posted by sachref on April 16, 2009
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