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I’ve put together a list of things that you absolutely need,  starting from least to greatest.

1. Cellphones- The addiction to these is so great, that this guy attached one to his ear. That’s commitment for you. This is one of my more humorous suggestions.
2. Food- I don’t know about you, but a big mac certainly goes a long way. After missing a few meals, you start to slow down and experience hungry pains. After a week you would be dead. I had planned to put a picture of someone starving right below this, but I couldn’t stand to look at it. Those were the most gruesome pictures I have ever seen.
3. Game systems- Even with the 300$+ price tag, people still buy them. The PS3 cost 499 dollars, while the Xbox360 cost 280$. It’s a serious addiction. I would know, because I suffer from it
4. Pets- Everyone has pets. Cats and dogs and lizards and fish and every other animal under the sun. These pets seem to be essential to life. Without that dog, who else would we have to pet all the time? They’re lots of fun and great for guard duty. Cats are more like a royal family. They don’t do what you want them to do, unless they want to do it.
5. Cars- I’ve gone to a school, looked at the high school parking, and seen  a red Ferrari. This shows just how obsessed we are about cars. Nascar doesn’t help either. Everyone ways huge Hummer’s or Ferrari’s, but I can’t see why. It’s not like that’ll save your life if you get hit by a mac truck.

Good day (or night) to you, and good luck surviving life’s perils.

I’ve put together a list of things that you absolutely need,  starting from least to greatest.

1. Cellphones- The addiction to these is so great, that this guy attached one to his ear. That’s commitment for you. This is one of my more humorous suggestions.
2. Food- I don’t know about you, but a big mac certainly goes a long way. After missing a few meals, you start to slow down and experience hungry pains. After a week you would be dead. I had planned to put a picture of someone starving right below this, but I couldn’t stand to look at it. Those were the most gruesome pictures I have ever seen.
3. Game systems- Even with the 300$+ price tag, people still buy them. The PS3 cost 499 dollars, while the Xbox360 cost 280$. It’s a serious addiction. I would know, because I suffer from it
4. Pets- Everyone has pets. Cats and dogs and lizards and fish and every other animal under the sun. These pets seem to be essential to life. Without that dog, who else would we have to pet all the time? They’re lots of fun and great for guard duty. Cats are more like a royal family. They don’t do what you want them to do, unless they want to do it.
5. Cars- I’ve gone to a school, looked at the high school parking, and seen  a red Ferrari. This shows just how obsessed we are about cars. Nascar doesn’t help either. Everyone ways huge Hummer’s or Ferrari’s, but I can’t see why. It’s not like that’ll save your life if you get hit by a mac truck.

Good day (or night) to you, and good luck surviving life’s perils.

Today has been a day for catching up. Not that I'm caught up on all my reading (ha ha ha, does that ever happen?), but at least I've plowed through my inbox.

Speaking of plowing, while I was in sunny CA accompanying a conference attendee (AGU is the ALA of geologists and oceanographers), visiting friends and going to yummy restaurants, we had two feet of snow. That's right. 2 FEET. But I missed most of it, as a lot had melted by the time I (finally) got home.

We met one of the nicest, kindest, most thoughtful airline representative on Christmas Eve Eve when we were socked in with snow at O'Hare. He was incredibly helpful when our late evening American Airlines flight from Chicago to Boston was cancelled. Have you had weather delays, in your holiday travel? Or wishing you could travel, instead of having to work the Reference Desk over the holidays?

Well to cheer you up, no matter what your fate..here are a few tasty, no-calorie morsels that have crossed my desk recently (in no particular order):

• Museums on Us. Free admission to selected museums, if you have a Bank of America card/account. I love this idea!! (Of course, free admission is admittedly less of a draw when you're already usually free.) But the main point is--someone in the museum community has partnered with a bank to give the consumer a great experience. It made me contemplate opening an account with them, just to get the free museum days.
• DIY PS3 supercomputer. Andy tells me you can build one for around US$ 4,000. Here's the recipe.
• smashLAB White Paper on Social Media. A nice guide for social media from the marketing perspective. It's from March 2008, so a bit dated but offers a solid-but-quick overview if you want the basics.

These videos from the new PS3 game, LittleBigPlanet, are hilarious.

The game which was released last week in North America allows users to create their own levels. So naturally there’s a slew of awesome retro games being re-imagined in the LBP universe.

LittleBigPlanet: Galaga
(To play this level, search for user RRR30000)

The Tetris video had me laughing out loud as you watch the Sackboy jet around the screen trying to fit the blocks together.

LittleBigPlanet: Tetris

More videos after the jump….

LittleBigPlanet: Gradius

LittleBigPlanet: Donkey Kong

I haven’t played the game yet, but just watching these videos is entertainment enough for me.

Also of interest:
Little Big Planet at Amazon