Geek alert

High points:

Startling efficacy
Dangerously short skirt
Having one's opinions noted


Low points:

Relative soft-heartedness undercutting startling efficacy
Realizing it's the same people doing the same things the same ways.
Poor sportsmanship
Nowhere near enough sleep

Cool librarians

Excerpted from here:

In the First Amendment Center's "Legal Watch" newsletter (March 11-17), Charles Haynes writes that "a warning sign greets patrons entering all 10 of the county libraries in Santa Cruz, California." It says: "Beware, a record of the books you borrow may end up in the hands of the FBI. And if the FBI requests your records, librarians are prohibited by law from telling you about it." The message to the readers ends: "Questions about this policy should be directed to Attorney General John Ashcroft, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. 20530.


These are the kind of subversive information specialists I can get behind...