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Sometimes you just need a day off, yet you feel you need a reason to close down, to justify the tax payers expense verses that one crazy person who might complain. Here are 25 reasons to close down:
1. Snow Day - tried and true, in three feet of snow no one can blame you for closing
2. Power's Out - In the Digital Age, without power to light the monitors you may as well give up.
3. Not Enough Staff - Even on the prettiest of days everybody else can decide not to show.
4. Dangerous Animal Loose in Library - Two words: rabid wolverines.
5. Bookworm Infestation - Also gives you the chance to cloth the library in a circus tent.
6. All the Books Are Gone - Not as unlikely as you would think.7. National Holiday - Nothing like President's Day to sleep in.
8. Invented National Holiday - Nothing like Day after President's Day Sale Day to sleep in.
9. Spontaneous Holiday - Nothing like Teenager Checks Out a Classic Without Being Forced To Day
10. Director Has a Boo Boo - Generally only works if you are the director.
11. Ghosts - More likely to work if library was built on Indian burial ground.
12. Simple Illness - Yep, sometimes the whole library can get the flu.
13. Supernatural Illness - Yep, sometimes the whole town can become zombies.
14. Apocalyptic Illness - Yep, sometimes the whole world can be decimated by plague.
15. Stigmata - Really anything to call the church in for, but blood especially.
16. Global Apocalypse/Rapture/Ragnarok - Think of the rush in the 200s.
17. Internetz/Facebook/Twitter Is Down - see #16.
18. Spontaneous Human Combustion - If people are burstin aflame in the library, no one is safe.
19. You Must Beat the Last Boss on Halo - Gamerz 4 Lif
20. Building Implodes Due to Indian Burial Ground - Possible consequence of fighting #11
21. Catalog Becomes Sentient, Attempts to Catalog Staff - You are either "kill" or "be killed"
22. Exestential Crisis Stemming from a "Print is Dead" Argument - self explanatory.
23. Crazy Person Attacks Staff - Real tragedy is the ticket home.
24. Exestential Crisis Stemming from a "Paul is Dead" Argument - self explanatory.25. You Just Wanna.
An 75 year-old Idaho woman is facing jail time for repeatedly dumping condiments into the public library's book drop, allegedly, 
Back to the drawing board for Dark Horse as the comic publishing company's app was rejected from Apple. The reason for the rejection is close to the same as the Sony eReader apps rejection: The app must not sell products from within the that are not also available to be sold from Itunes, Apple's digital store, or have a link to the store in the app or some such legal mumbo jumbo. Dark Horse's original plan was to sell their comics digitally at a discount to consumers. While still able to do that, the sometimes dickish behavior of Apple cuts out a wide portion of the market, as well as makes them eat months of development. In conclusion, Apple, I say unto thee: "Com'on." I might use your products more if they had more stuff I liked on them.
Seen in the poster to the left, this red swimsuit adorning Ms. Fawcett will be donated to the Smithsonian Institutes pop culture museum. The poster the swimsuit appeared in is one of the most iconic images ever, selling close to 12 million prints.
from the music video Bad will be donated to the museum the same day. We hope this classic piece of Americana lives on and is remembered for generations to come. We also hope the swimsuit has a special or something on VH1 this time next year.
In a surprising turn of events in the land of ereader apps, Apple has rejected Sony's eReader app despite allowing both Kindle and Nook apps. Some speculate that Apple is attempting to derail more eReaders from being used on its devices, either by cutting competition from its own eBookstore or just out of spite.