I Don't Wanna! Okay... Steampunk Sarah Palin

I use this to hunt Russi... polar moose bears, you betcha!

I do not know why I am reporting this, but here goes:  The Steampunk Sarah Palin comic book is not just a joke I made up to point out all the things I hate in politics/sci fi right now no it is a real thing that hurts my brain meat.  If anyone, man, woman, child, or manwomanchild, comes up to you the library and requests this graphic novel or tries to start a conversation about this, you beat them over the head with a copy of Preacher and then tell the media why.  You tell them of the bile and filth you live with, that this cannot go on.  Then, show them this post and stand back as they begin to beat the corpse of the manwomanchild themselves.  

Via Daemons Books

DC Drops Comic Code in It's Pants

Not anymore, motherf$@ker

DC Comics stated in a press release that it will no longer use the "Comics Code Authority" seal of approval.  The out-dated non-rating system has rarely been seen on the majority of comics since the 1960s when Spider-Man started doing drugs, whoring around, and killing fools (throwing away Gwen Stacy).  The code was instituted as a witch hunt in the early days of comics to protect juvenile minds.  Then the birth control pill came along and no one cared anymore.  The writers of Archie Comics, the last major comic to consistently hold the CCA, has proclaimed the comic will now become the epitome of hedonistic, sadistic, and puppy stealing horror they always wanted it to be.  I am praying they get Garth Ennis to write it.

Packer Librarian Steals Book From Bears Librarian

What the hell is a "packer?"

Over this past weekend, two librarians decided to bet library books on a pro football game.  I just wrote that sentence.  The directors of the Brown County Library in Green Bay and the Chicago Public Library made a friendly wager to give the books "We're going on a Bear Hunt" from Brown County (among others) and "The Stinky Cheese Man" from Chicago (among others).  While this was going on, I was drinking one beer (among others) and getting into one fight (among others) over the game in question.  Daaaa Bers!

Article with video here

Google Doing More Stuff with Ebooks?

One of Google's first purchases of the new year is eBook Technologies, an online publishing company.  What does this mean?  Google is going to further its already well-endowed Google Books ebook store?  Google will begin offering robust ePublishing for the public?  Google is planning to publish its own books, forgoing authors all together using a supercomputer with the combined intelligences of Stephen King, Edgar Allen Poe, and H.P. Lovecraft to create the ultimate Harry Potter fanfic?  The future is full of possibilities.

PC Mag and pic from here

Hawk Looks for Friend in Library of Congress

I demand a copy of My Side of the Mountain!

According to the Washington Post, a hawk has found its way into the Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress.  While the staff has been scurrying around attempting to find what type of bird the hawk is and how to lure it down and out.  Personally, I believe the hawk is looking for a first printing of My Side of the Mountain.  From the hawk's point of view, the book is about a hawk training a boy to care, feed and shelter it.  The hawk in the LoC has proven he is smart enough to break into a library, so we must assume he is looking for juvenile literature to teach him how to train a young, rebellious boy.

Washington Post Article and Image

Ebook HUD: Where's the Pretty Poop Now?

There it is.  I see the pretty shit now. (image)

Because folks are looking at their smartphones and reading and walking and chewing bubblegum at the same time, they run into environmental disasters like airplane propellers.  Enter MegaReader iPhone eBook reader's Walk n'Read HUD (Heads Up Display, for those of you who not all cool and stuff).  As seen in the above pic, the reader uses the Iphone's back facing camera to project an image of what is in front of you behind the text on the screen.  A novel approach that has been used before, like when my sister used to cut out pictures in her favorite magazines.  She said it was to make a cool New Kids on the Block collage, but I know it was because she was always tripping over the cat.  Now to think on it, which is more embarrassing?

Articles here and here

Alaska Library Not Checking Out: Simple Computer Failure or Proof of Skynet?

Earlier this week the Homer Public Library in Homer, Alaska suffered a computer crash that forced them to suspend all checkouts until the problem could be resolved, Homernews.com reports.  The staff had difficulty keeping up with the demands of doing things the way they were done 20 years ago and have since stopped checking books in or out, causing a backup that has led the vocal majority (computer users) to wonder what all these paper things were doing blocking the computers.  The library and the computer company SirsiDynix are working to fix the problem and hope to have systems normal soon.

Here's what I wonder:  What if this is all an elaborate trick by a sentient computer program to force users that normally would only read to use computers?  Yep, this is proof of Skynet!

I'm looking at you, Pulp Looker! (whereigotit)

But, Strikingly Handsome Internet Library Dude, you ask me, why would Skynet care about a library in Alaska?   Ah, there's the rub.  You see, much like the vampires in 30 Days of Night, computers are attracted to Alaska for its rich sunlight potential.  While the vampires were there for the months-long darkness, computers are there for the months-long extra sunlight to power their solar doo-dads and what-nots.  They know libraries are the best place in town to begin the information take over.  In a small, out of the way place like Homer, Alaska, the takeover can begin and end quickly.  I tell you, this is the first step!  Start hoarding can goods and shotguns because this is going to be a long winter.