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Vote For Your Favorite Books

Voting is open until September 18 for you to choose your favorite books of the previous year. Winners will be announced during Teen Read Week, October 18-24.

Sticky Note Madness

We experimented with our first stop motion video for the eTrailblazer last week. It took forever to do, was six still photos of a football catch converted to QuickTime, and was ONE SECOND LONG. I cannot imagine how many hours it might have taken to create this stop motion video, let alone the number of sticky notes consumed.

What Do I Read Next?

Type the title and author of the last book you liked into The Book Seer, and it will kick back recommendations from Amazon, LibraryThing, and BookArmy. Accurate spelling of your title and author yields better results, and though your mileage may vary on actually coming up with ideas of what to read next, Book Seer is fun to play around with. (Remember, if CGHS Library does not have it, we can order it for you.)

Music on the Web

Most of the time now, I listen to music on the web and don’t have any need to download it. My laptop benefits the most  from this inclination since it’s not weighed down by music files, thus saving me tons of space and virus headaches (you eMule users know what I’m talking about). Anyhow, if I do choose to download music, I can always do it over at iTunes or my favorite place in the web: Jamendo. (taken from Your Guide to Music on The Web on TechCrunch)

Buzz Buzz

 Surchur functions as a solid current awareness tool, highlighting the buzz relating to breaking events and people in the news.  

For instance, today Surchur will do a great job on Brett Favre and Hurricane Bill. But, on Andrew Jackson or the Potato Famine?  Not so much.

It answers questions: 

• What's happening?
• What are people seeing?
• What are they thinking and saying about it?
• How many people are talking?
• Where are they talking? (taken from NeverEnding Search)  

Searching Tips

Also, here is a link to a General Search Tools Wiki that must have every search engine known to man. 

Cats Always Take Themselves So Seriously

(Photo by Zak Wohlschlegel)

Grasping At Straws

Why Is 389 Special?

Well, for one thing, 389 is the smallest prime so that it and the next 3 primes are all equal to 1 (mod 4).

Get your nerd on and see why numbers are special all the way to 9999.

Promoting Books in Cool Ways

Publishers are beginning to promote their books in tech savvy ways that connect you with authors in new and rather interesting ways. For example, HarperTeen has a series of podcasts available on their website.