April foolery
I’ve never been much of a one for playing April Fool’s Day pranks myself, but I’m glad to see that the good people at Library Journal have been observing the day in an appropriately leg-pulling spirit.
Since the special LJ April Fool’s Edition will probably disappear tomorrow, here are a couple of screen captures for posterity (click to embiggen*):
I doubt the headlines will be as funny to anyone who isn’t a librarian. For my part, I knew I’d made the mental shift from academic literary critic to librarian-in-the-making when this kind of thing started to make me laugh.
[Update: K. G. Schneider of Free Range Librarian replies. Bwah! By the way, I have a (by now kind of un-timely) post a-brewing on the "Michael Gorman vs. Blogs" controversy.]
In other news of the silly:
Bloglines in Klingon! (hat tip to Dorothea)
Google releases Google Gulp. Mmmm…sero-tonic.
As always, Miriam of scribblingwoman links widely and entertainingly.
* When did "embiggen" cease to be a Simpsons in-joke and enter the language? And how did it become specifically associated with the action of clicking a thumbnail image to see the full-sized version? Inquiring minds want to know.
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🙂 back atcha!
That’s a perfectly cromulant question!