A panel description from the upcoming ALA conference:

Millennials (born after 1979) are the largest new adult generation since Baby Boomers. What will Millennials want in a new library service or building? What are the ideal Millennial space and service characteristics? Will Millennials support public library tax levies? This is a rare opportunity to interact with a panel of Millennials who will respond to your own plans for innovation, and to learn how they react to the ideas of other librarians.

… view them in their native habitat! Watch them mate! Pay bills! Eat exotic foods!

Awww.

I went to drop off my DVDs at the library today and got caught in a giant traffic jam caused by construction shutting down various side streets and spilling out into the main street.

No police could be seen helping to direct traffic.

About a mile and a half further along I discovered why: The police were all at the ice cream stand.

This is a bad habit, doing too many memes and quizzes. Especially ones that aren’t especially interesting or revealing. But they are viral.

Still, they are at least slightly better than those ones with the giant linked graphics.

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Like E, I’ve seen this on so many blogs now that I feel obligated to do it. I’d actually gone to look it up yesterday, but didn’t feel like writing it down.

Events
1945 - Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 11 launches from Cape Kennedy, Florida and will become the first manned space mission to land on the moon.
1994 - The planet Jupiter is hit by fragments of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet.

Births
1821 - Mary Baker Eddy, American religious leader (d. 1910)
1889 - Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player (d. 1951)
1907 - Orville Redenbacher, American farmer and businessman (d. 1995)
1967 - Will Ferrell, American comedian

Deaths
1557 - Anne of Cleves, queen of Henry VIII of England (b. 1515)
1994 - Julian Schwinger, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
1999 - John F. Kennedy Jr., American publisher (plane crash) (b. 1960)

Today on the front page of the Concord Monitor, the lead article was titled “Pick up your very own Daniel Webster”. Yes, the most important story of the day was how to get your historical statesman bobblehead fix.

The majority of the rest of the page was taken by a giant image of cars stuck waiting while a line of turkeys walked across the road.

Went to see V for Vendetta today. It was quite good, and I definitely recommend it to all.

Still, I have to say: In the movie, the US was apparently engulfed in civil war and full of disease and strife. But could things really be as bad as all that considering the British government was still buying DELL COMPUTERS?!