Are the Editors at U.S. News Becoming De Facto Law School Deans?
An op-ed in April 2, 2008 Hartford Courant suggests that the answer to the above question is yes. The piece goes on to lament what it views as law school deans’ double-talk about the U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings of their schools, which were released on March 28. The piece was written by Michael Seringhaus, a One-L at Yale, which U.S. News ranked first for 2008.

WSJ Law Blog April 2, 2008

TNT's Librarian franchise of movies has proven successful for the network. The first installment, The Librarian: Quest for the Spear, ranked as ad-supported cable's number-one movie of 2004. The second installment, The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines, ranks as ad-supported cable's number-one original movie sequel of all time and placed among the top five movie telecasts of 2006.
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=1&id=49950
Noah Wyle, Bob Newhart and Jane Curtin return. Check April 2008 listings for viewing of the third installment in your area.

Rex Libris, another librarian feared by evil opponents, appears in comic books
http://www.jtillustration.com/rex/cast.php
Other characters—some good and some bad—are Simonides, Thoth, Circe and Hypatia.

FTC: The Truth About Cell Phones and the Do Not Call Registry
News release: "The Federal Trade Commission today reiterated that despite the claims made in e-mails circulating on the Internet, consumers should not be concerned that their cell phone numbers will be released to telemarketers in the near future, and that it is not necessary to register cell phone numbers on the National Do Not Call (DNC) Registry

E-ZPass electronic toll collection technology was first introduced in the Northeastern United States in 1993.
Delaware
Illinois
Indiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
Virginia
West Virginia http://www.ezpassde.com/where_use_ezpass.shtml
Ohio is expected to have E-ZPass by August 2009, but in the meantime we are traveling to some of the above-listed states. So, we have ordered an I-PASS from Illinois.

You may use a form for an advanced search on Google here:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search

Dirt, only the best dirt, used for library walls
http://www.jacksonholestartrib.com/articles/2008/03/25/news/wyoming/d346b052e82d65d48725741500267952.txt
See picture at above link

The everyday word "goodbye" was earlier "god be with you". By association with greetings such as "good day", god morphed into good and the whole phrase became goodbye. Another such term is the informal greeting "Howdy" which in its former life was known as "How do ye?" or "How do you do?"
A.Word.A.Day

Inspiration
Because our house is being both reconstructed and renovated, we have been inspired to re-organize (sort, toss or give away items) and clean. Yesterday the ducts were cleaned and, in addition to a bit of grit, we found a large mummified chipmunk.

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com/