Friday Diversions

Here are some tidbits to keep you going on a beautiful Friday afternoon:

• It's a vase! It's a router! Wha? I liked this comment: "Until today I’ve just layed flowers directly on top of my router, but with this invention my life will change!"


• Looking for the perfect gift? Or something to read over the holidays? This list of the top 100 2008 books is from the NY Times, and may be a useful reader's advisory tool as well.


• Under "You can't tell a book by its cover" we have the top book jackets of 2008.

Another List of Must Read Books

OK, it seems that reporters in the UK have lots of time to create interesting reading lists (See this entry from PACL Reference & Resources for a similar list). Here is a list of the 50 Best Cult Books. How many have you read? I can count at least half I read, though I didn't enjoy some of them.

Best Books EVER!

OK, that may not be entirely true, but this is an interesting short list that spawned thousands of comments. OK, maybe not thousands...

Speaking of exaggerations, here is the best online calendar EVER for library use. (Note that this link only works internally.) OK, so it may not be the best, but it is one we are testing out to add to our web pages and blogs. It gives you options once you are viewing an event of emailing it to a friend, getting a reminder sent to you, or adding it to your own personal calendar. This is a FAR cry better than what we have now through the city page.

Anyone want to comment? Best calendar? Best book?