iPalimpsest

David Byrne seems to be popping up everywhere lately, with his blog and his appearance (in the audience) at "Who Owns Culture?", but I didn't expect this:

"Among [Selena's] last recordings was a duet with Talking Heads lead vocalist David Byrne, made for the film Blue in the Face--probably an unthinkable stretch for any other mainstream Latin artist of the day."
--"Selena," in Contemporary Hispanic Biography. Vol. 2. Gale Group, 2002.

I think that I've seen this movie, "Blue in the Face", but I can't seem to remember it at all. I feel like I should definitely have remembered Madonna as a singing telegram girl.

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A NY Times article on NYPL's Lessig and Jeff Tweedy discussion about "Who Owns Culture" reports,

Mr. Lessig and the moderator, Steven Johnson, a contributing editor at Wired, made much of the fact that the discussion was taking place in a library, where much of the Western cultural canon is available free.

Sitting with my blogger friends, a friend from law school and my fellow librarians I was struck by how NYPL acted as a connector. The library isn't just about making materials available for free-- we're about connecting users to what they need. We figure out why a user might not have access to what they need-- a book, a computer, computer skills, research skills, and then we try to bridge their lack of access.

We connect people to the information they need, the skills they need to access the information, and we connect users to each other.

I've heard so many times that google or Borders or Netflix or Napster or whatever... is going to make libraries obsolete. Rather, these new companies and technologies just make it easier for us to be connectors-- they won't make us obsolete, they'll make us better.

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fuggedup.blogspot.com has moved to gofugyourself.blogspot.com, but wait, is this an April fool's site? Suddenly, I feel like giving everyone a hug.

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The PSP background changes color with the month. I thought this might be an April fool's joke, but it was green and now it's a sweet pink.

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