Google To Offer Free Home Internet Service

Google, the world's largest search engine, has announced they will be the first to offer free wireless broadband service to all.  By becoming an ISP, this allows all the power of Goolge to be at your fingertips, from every corner of your house.

I really hope this works because I am seriously tired of my local provider dropping signal.  It really gets me down in the dumps.  My whole day is gone when my Internet connection is in the toilet.  What a load of crap.

Simply go to the Google TiSP Beta web site and register to start now or watch the video demonstration.

April Fool Birthday Bomb

Looking for that April Fool Prank to mess with friends and possibly a company but do not want to do a lot of work?  Head over to Birthday Bomb and find out what these folks propose to do to Facebook.

All you have to do is change your birthday to April 1 on your Facebook profile and make it accessible to others.  The hope is that millions of people will do this, causing the birthday notifications on each profile to go a little batty April 1.

Does it hurt anyone? No.  Does it get a little laugh? Yes.  Might you get a card and $10 from your out of touch relatives?  Possibly.  Win Win, folks.

2011 100 Book Challenge

Here's another challenge I have set for myself:

From April 1st (Fool's Day) to October 1st (the last day of Banned Books Week), I will read and report back the Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009 as recorded by the ALA.  Holy crap, I just said that out loud on the Internet.  Guess I have to do it.  Good times.

If you want to get in with this challenge, check out the Home Girl's Book Blog.  

A to Z Blogging Challenge

We here at the Banned Library think we are pretty smart cookies.  Smart enough that we know our whole entire alphabet, from A to Z.  Sure, when we were younger, we though "ElEmEnO" was one big letter, but we chart that up to youth and a stupid song.  
It is because of this incredible mastery of the art of the language of letters in order that we are partaking in the "A to Z Blogging Challenge."  Each day in the month of April (excluding Sundays, FSM's day) we will blog using the alphabet as our guide.  "How can you, such a youngin' in the blogging sphere (or blogosphere) undertake such a rigorous challenge?" you ask.  Well, by stating stout of heart and strong of mind, we shall overcome this Everest.  Join us, won't you?
Tossing It Out: A to Z Blogging Challenge

Coloring Book Drug Smugglin': Takes Me Back to Preschool

That ain't yellow dye #5

Three inmates and two civilians are facing charges when it was found they were smuggling the drug Suboxone  pasted onto coloring book pages into the Cape May County Correctional Center.  After following a tip, officers began scanning the jail's mail until they found the coloring pages.  

Kinda puts all those kids running around the Children's Department into perspective, huh?  Remember, the next time a toddler gives you a drawing outside the lines, you get that down to the boys in the crime lab, STAT.  Or I guess you could lick the paper and see if you catch a buzz.  More likely you will catch flu, but whatevs.  That's the price you pay for fast livin'.  Remember, what happens in the play area, stays in the play area.

MSNBC via Geekologie

Cell Phones in the Library: Pittsburg Woman Arrested

In Pittsburg last week, a woman was arrested in the Los Meanos college library for "suspicion of resisting arrest" after police confronted her about using her cellphone in the library.  What happened during the incident is under dispute, however everyone can agree that she was talking on her cell phone in the library at some point.  That alone should be a crime.

I don't want to get off on a rant here about cell phones, but when did we need to be connected to everyone at all times?  Is no place sacred?  If I walked into your church during services and started talking at high volume, I would get kicked the hell out, yet the jackass next to me in the college library while I am trying to study gets free reign?  And put the phone down when you know you will be interacting with others.  I do not care if you are going through the drive-thru at Wendy's, put down the damn phone and give the server/waitress/librarian/dude with smock a little bit of respect instead of dismissing them.

Whew.  I felt really old there for a second in a "You damn kids get off my lawn" kinda way.  Ah, don't you worry, cell phoners.  You are okay, I guess.  Except for the folks with that little glowing thing stuck in your ear.  We used to stone people who stuck things in their ears and talked to themselves, ya know.  Shakes cane in the air and waves it like just don't care.


Mercury News

Obscure Novel "Gone With The Wind" Chapters Found

Some obscure novel's last chapters were found in the Pequot Library in Southport, CT.  The book, Gone with the Wind, was a Civil War historical fiction piece about a nihilistic man who does not give a damn and an anorexic woman who defeats her illness and vows never to go hungry again.  Frankly, I don't get it, but I guess this thing was popular.  I think they made a movie about it, too, but we all know the book is usually better.  

NYTimes via lisnews.org