Forsan et haec olim scripsisse iuvabit.

We're about to open our newly renovated special collections department here at the library, but our marketing strategies are considerably less inventive than those of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam:

It's not like we don't have the resources -- what we lack is the VISION. :-)

Though someone did recently install a small black button marked (in the appropriate font) "RED ALERT" in the staff elevator. I'm waiting to see how long it takes for someone official to notice and remove it ...

Sniggled from Bryan Konietzko's Tumblr, the Olympic performance of the Brazilian synchronized waterbending swimming team:

Okay, Nickelodeon, can we please have an ATLA soundtrack album NOW?

This is the most fantastic performance of a Beethoven piece I have ever seen:

(I'd be the little kid on top of the lamppost, conducting away.) Sniggled from Sacnoth's Scriptorium. Share and enjoy!

Nick.com has a teaser moment from the upcoming Legend of Korra episode available, and it's a winner:

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A kidnapping plot already? I love kidnapping plots ... and it's also encouraging to see the main antagonists worming their way into the protagonists' lives so early (though, if I had to guess, I'd suspect Bolin of being in the wrong place at the wrong time here and not necessarily the focus of the original scheme). Must make cake this evening for Korra Day tomorrow!

ETA: I was right. Wrong place, wrong time ... fortunately, no one messes with Mako's little brother.

Sniggled especially for kanja177 from Brian Hanson's most recent "Hey, Answerman!" column at animenewsnetwork.com:

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This is what happens when you read, too, right?

Color me retro, but I always enjoyed Peter, Paul and Mary. They were one of the only name bands I ever saw in concert as a teenager (with friends, even! not my parents!). I hope to see Ms. Travers after the eschaton and sing along with her in person again.

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My brother pointed me at this one. I love The Onion:

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It's a serious issue they raise. Anybody else remember the movie they made out of the Young Einstein trailer back in the eighties? Such a disappointment ...

dduane noticed this back before Christmas and it's one of the funniest parodies I've ever seen. You don't have to know about Irn Bru to appreciate it, but it may help to have grown up hearing "Walking in the Air" from The Snowman every now and then:( Video behind the cut ...  )Guaranteed to raise a chuckle or your money back.

Finally, an answer to the question, "What if J.K. Rowling had grown up in Bentonville, Arkansas?" ( Read more... )