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new superhero team

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Via SHARP-L: “The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB), representing
nearly 2000 booksellers from all over the world, has launched a powerful
new search engine on its newly improved website. Over 3
million books, maps, prints and autographs are contained in the searchable
database.”

From their secret, underground headquarters in Zurich, ILAB spokesperson Captain Folio pledged to rid the world of evil bibliographers everywhere. “They can run, but they can’t hide,” added Folio’s sidekick, Kid Quarto.

super bowl sunday

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Yawn. Oh, I’m sorry, was there something on television today?

It’s not that I don’t appreciate the strategy involved in football or the visceral thrill of the game.

I just don’t care. Not. one. little. bit. Why not? Who knows? Family influence? My dad lettered in marksmanship in college, and football on the tv was never a part of our household. I played baseball and soccer in elementary school, and then ran cross country one season in high school. Otherwise, I was too busy doing something else. Then, as now, music, books, and computers were a much bigger part of my life than sports, professional or otherwise.

But still, I can appreciate the importance of today’s game. May the best team get the most home runs.

Kidding! I’m just kidding!

it was many years ago today

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Mike‘s not the only one. Today is my birthday, too. L and I had brunch at The Cup and Saucer, and we’ll have dinner at an undisclosed (to me) location.

what’s it take for a woman…

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…to make the cover of Wired magazine?

I’ve subscribed for a few years now, and when the current issue came, L saw the cover and pointed out that the only women we’ve seen on the cover in the past several issues haven’t exactly been known for their accomplishments in the fields of technology:

You have to go all the way back to 1996 to find a cover story on Sherry Turkle, and before that to 1994 for one on Laurie Anderson. Other than these two cover stories, there are none on women in technology.

See for youself. Check out the Wired archive of covers. Pretty shameful, no?

It’s not like there aren’t enough candidates. (Thanks to Caterina Fake on misbehaving.net for the link.)

snow in kcmo

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A couple of KC blogs feature photographs of the results of today’s (and tonight’s) snowfall. Nothing as dramatic as what fell on Washington, D.C. and other parts east, I’m sure. This view is close to where I live. I don’t know where this is. I did a quick browse through the blogs listed at KC Bloggers but did not find more. Perhaps Heidi will post some pix, too.

Update: Yup. There they are.