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“…librarians are more freedom fighters than shushers.”



--Carla Hayden, Ms. Magazine online



Mission Statement: Radical Reference is a collective of volunteer library workers who believe in social justice and equality. We support activist communities, progressive organizations, and independent journalists by providing professional research support, education and access to information. We work in a collaborative virtual setting and are dedicated to information activism to foster a more egalitarian society.



Radical reference originated as a service provided by volunteer library workers from all over the United States to assist demonstrators and activists at the convergence surrounding the Republican National Convention in New York City August 29-September 2, 2004. We are evolving, expanding our services, and continuing to utilize our professional skills and tools to answer information needs from the general public, independent journalists, and activists. Service will be provided via this web site, blog, e-mail, chat, phone, in the street and Ouija board.

YouSendIt | Email large files quickly, securely, and easily!

YouSendIt | Email large files quickly, securely, and easily!



"Enter your recipient's email address, choose a file to store on YouSendIt server, click on Send It button to send a link. Your privacy is guaranteed."

elgooG - Google Mirror Mirror

elgooG



If you ever need a quick headache, this is the place to go. Seems to be exactly like Google, only in mirror-image. Neat.

Crash Bonsai

Tiny, delicate, violent. Love it.



About Crash Bonsai: "CrashBonsai is the creation of John Rooney, an artist who is torn between the desire to create and destroy. Recently, he has been making bonsai plants, and combining them with model cars and trucks which he has creatively smashed and melted, to create 'CrashBonsai,' little living car crash sculptures."

litefeeds :: mobile RSS

Wow. You don't even have to have a Treo or Blackberry, you can use this on any web-ready phone. very cool!

litefeeds :: mobile RSS: "Litefeeds mobile is an application that you can install over the air to your mobile device (or download and install). Once installed simply enter your litefeeds username and password and your mobile device will synchronize with your online account, receiving all of your chosen feeds."

Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus

Okay, I usually only blog free sites, but this was too neat not to pass along. The examples given are clear and intuitive, and a resource like this might make it fun to use the thesaurus!

"The Visual Thesaurus is a dictionary and thesaurus with an intuitive interface that encourages exploration and learning. Available in both a Desktop Edition and an Online Edition, the Visual Thesaurus is a marvelous way to improve your vocabulary and your understanding of the English language."

Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus

Yahoo! Subscription Search

Yahoo! Search

Yahoo began testing a service late Wednesday that allows people to perform simultaneous searches for information contained within subscription-based Web sites.



While most search engines crawl the Web and troll freely accessible sites, they cannot get into much of the so-called deep Web, vast amounts of data stored within paid and password-protected sites. Yahoo Search Subscriptions will allow search access to seven different subscription Web sites simultaneously, including the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal Online.



The other subscription sites Yahoo users will be able to get access to are ConsumerReports.org, TheStreet.com, The New England Journal of Medicine, Forrester Research, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. LexisNexis, Factiva and the Association of Computing Machinery subscription Web sites are expected to be added in coming weeks.

Freecycle: Spring, TX

This is my town's, but there are many listed for the entire U.S.



"The Freecycle Network is made up of many individual groups across the globe. It's a grassroots movement of people who are giving and getting stuff for free in their own towns. Each local group is run by a local volunteer moderator. Membership is free. For more information visit Freecycle.org.



One rule: everything posted must be FREE. Whether it's a chair, a fax machine, piano, or an old door to be given away, it can be posted on the network. Or, maybe you're looking to acquire something yourself? Respond to the posting directly and you just might get it. After that it is up to the giver to set up a pickup time for passing on the treasure."

Yahoo! Groups : Spring_TX_Freecycle

The Advertising Slogan Generator

very clever.

The Advertising Slogan Generator

Pac Manhattan

Pac-Manhattan is a large-scale urban game that utilizes the New York City grid to recreate the 1980's video game sensation Pac-Man. This analog version of Pac-man is being developed in NYU's Interactive Telecommunications graduate program, in order to explore what happens when games are removed from their "little world" of tabletops, televisions and computers and placed in the larger "real world" of street corners, and cities.



It's not new-news, but too good not to post!

Pac Manhattan

PeanutButterWiki

Another techno-toy that's SO cool, but I have no idea how I'll use it. This little site allows you to create your own wiki, in literal seconds, using TipiWiki technologies. I made one for my work, but don't yet know what to do with it. Several drawbacks are apparent, but may yet be fixed. You can't change your password from the assigned one; you must know some html to make your wording look good; your wiki is invitation-only; and worst of all, you have to have content. Check it out - get WikiSticky!
PeanutButterWiki

This day in Music ::

Excellent! The top song in the UK on my birthday was Tainted Love by The Soft Cell.

This day in Music ::

My Google

Google launches its personalized portal, including all your favourite Google features - links to your gmail account, weather, news, and oh yeah - a search box.

Google

buzztracker - 2005-05-19

pinched this from lessig's blog, who says:

"Here's a cool remix of the news, in a new service called Buzztracker. Using Google, the site gives a visual representation of news on the net."



Dig.



buzztracker - 2005-05-19

College Libraries Set Aside Books in a Digital Age - New York Times

yay for UT!

College Libraries Set Aside Books in a Digital Age - New York Times

The Hollywood Librarian

The Hollywood Librarian

back in black

Dear Constant Reader, Thank you for your patience, during my absence. I have moved shop, back to Houston and home to my fiance. Looking forward to more fun reference!

Yours truly,
Emily

YaGoohoo!gle

Offers both Google and Yahoo search results in a split page. Great for directory searching.

YaGoohoo!gle

The Annotated New York Times

A great site dedicated to the annotations and citations made to each day's NYTimes articles.

The Annotated New York Times

Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Lists

Highly recommended leisure reading, but not for the squeamish. Sincerely comical stuff.

Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Lists