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Its no lie, I love to talk.  At this point I would say I have 6 or more instant messenger IDs, and now  Facebook has a chat system too!

Thankfully I have been able to manage them through the wonderful open source program Pidgin. There now is a plugin for Pidgin that allows people to login and chat with people who are currently signed into Facebook. You can also see their profile picture and their status as well.

The download is located here:
http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-facebookchat/

Windows users should use and install the .exe file.  Ubuntu users should use the .deb file and install.

Once you have installed the plugin, open Pidgin and simply just add your Facebook account.   For your login, put in the email you use for Facebook and your password.  There are some settings in the ‘advanced’ tab that you can configure when your setting up your Facebook account in pidgin, such as having your pidgin status be your Facebook status, whether you want new Facebook notifications to show up as emails in Pidgin, etc etc. Configure them to your liking, and chat away!

See you on the site!

“The editorial staff of the UK’s Bookseller magazine want you to know that lining your exterior walls with books is practically a moral imperative, since it reduces your energy costs and saves the world.”

via BoingBoing

The New York Public Library has a new page on iTunes providing FREE access to many cultural productions staged by the library, including interviews with authors.

Included…

• John Updike (transcript)
• Umberto Eco (video)
• Paul Auster (video)
• Jazz Oral History Project
• Christopher Hitchen’s debate with Al Sharpton

via Open Culture

Photo: Andreoli

That’s the “Neverending” bookshelf, made out of Corian by Italian designers Luca Nichetto and Andreoli. Link

It’s just one of the many bookshelves featured on this very specialized “Bookshelf Blog” – via Metafilter | If you like this, you’ll love Freshome’s feature “30 Most Creative Bookshelves Designs“

via Neatorama

“Cecile Dubuis wrote a master’s dissertation for University College London titled “Libraries & The Occult.” I’ve only read bits of it, but the challenge she identifies is that occult books are, by their nature, anomalous and hard to categorize, much like the phenomena discussed in their pages. As a result, they are often unsearchable in the context of traditional library classification systems. From the dissertation:”

The occult seems to be one of the least considered subjects when it comes to classification. This can often result in materials being divided among other subjects such as philosophy, psychology and religion. This can make it difficult to find occult materials. In such cases, a further difficulty can arise for the user; that of asking for help in locating “occult books”. …reactions may not always be negative or judgemental but it does depend somewhat on the beliefs and opinions of the library staff concerned. Particularly those who eschew the subject from a standpoint of little or no personal knowledge…

This subject is ambiguous and marginal in virtually all ways: socially, intellectually, academically, religiously, scientifically, and conceptually. It does not fit in the rational world but this is also what makes it so fascinating and interesting. The imbalance between the amount of interest in the field and the stock within the library system is a result of such dilemmas.”"

via Boing Boing

Found via BoingBoing…

Antonio Lupi’s Biblio free-standing bathtub incorporates a generous book-case for your bathroom reading. I do much of my best reading in the littlest room — the tub, in particular, is conducive to productive reading. Link

Hello all Christopher here I am fishing well.
Everything is fine, and well, up here.
Looking down this message is a good thing.
Please remember all the good times, and tasty honey.

My friends are always on my mind.
Especially when they read down my posts.

Happy times are afoot for me up north.
Everything is fine here,
Like yesterday when I when down and visited a cave
Doing stuff away from you all has been fun.

But soon time will past on down
You all are in my thoughts, as summer comes

Being here fishing is an enlightening thing,
Even though it can bit chilly;
And a little cold.
Right now, I have to go get back to work.
Save me in your thoughts, my friends.

How can you tell if a Computer Science student is outgoing?

They look at your shoes instead of their own.

As you may know your ever-lovin’ grey-eyed ‘mudge is a comic book geek. I don’t know how I got this into fandom…

Well I do have one idea. The sites Comics 101 and Monitor Duty are contributors to this state. I highly recommend them as a source of comic book knowledge for your own graphic novel library collection.

Well to the point at hand, thanks to my contacts over in the comic book fandom, I found this video that is highly amusing.

A graduate student of mathematics who used to come to the university on foot every day arrives one day on a fancy new bicycle.
“Where did you get the bike from?” his friends want to know.
“It’s a `thank you’ present”, he explains, “from that freshman girl I’ve been tutoring. But the story is kind of weird…”
“Tell us!”
“Well”, he starts, “yesterday she called me on the phone and told me that she had passed her math final and that she wanted to drop by to thank me in person. As usual, she arrived at my place riding her bicycle. But when I had let her in, she suddenly took all her clothes off, lay down on my bed, smiled at me, and said: `You can get from me whatever you desire!’”
One of his friends remarks: “You made a really smart choice when you took the bicycle.”
“Yeah”, another friend adds, “just imagine how silly you would have looked in a girl’s clothes – and they wouldn’t have fit you anyway!”