Thing #12: Rollyo

For Thing #12 I had to create my own Rollyo account and search roll. 

One of the first things I noticed was that Rollyo’s site was pretty plain.  Just red and white with black writing.  Although it was nice to have a no-frills site to look at, in a way it was disconcerting.  I’ve become used to sites that are rather busy with lots of options on where to go and what to do.  I guess it’s something that I’d get used to after a while.

I created a search roll called “Shopping!” which consists of all the sites I visit when I’m shopping for something.

I can’t see myself using this tool in the near future.  It might’ve been very useful when I was doing research for my historical writing class, and it might become useful sometime during my MLIS studies.  But I doubt it would be my first stop. 

Before LibraryThing

A couple days ago my hunny sent me a link to an article on Linux.com.  He knows that we’ve been learning about new library technologies and thought it would be right up our alley.  The article is about a computer program called Alexandria.

Alexandria came out before LibraryThing.  It’s a program you download onto your computer to catalog your personal library, wishlist, books you’ve loaned out… you get the idea.  You can create a heading for each type and they’re put in alphabetical order.

Linux’s article states that some portions are a little glitchy, but they have every confidence that by its 1.0 release those problems will be resolved.

I haven’t used the program myself, but I thought the article was interesting anyway.  I wonder if Alexandria will catch on or even overtake LibraryThing once its glitches are fixed.

Futurama

For those of you that don’t know it: Futurama ROCKS!  Tonight just reminded me why.

Awesome quotes from tonight’s show:

Niblonian: They travel from world to world making everyone stupid in order to wipe out all thought in the universe.
Leela: Wipe out all thought? My God, they’re like flying televisions.

[in the library, absorbing all of Earth's knowledge]
Chief Giant Brain: Pathetic human race. Arranging their knowledge by category just made it easier to absorb. Dewey, you fool! Your decimal system has played right into my hands! Ha ha ha ha!

Fry: [writing] “Leela cried as Fry lay crushed under the book case. The giant brain laughed ‘Ha ha ha!’ Then, for no reason, he left Earth, never to return. The end.” There. Now he’s trapped in a book I wrote. A crummy world of plot holes and spelling errors.
Chief Giant Brain: The big brain am winning! I am the greetest! Mwa-ha-ha-ha! I must now leave Earth for no raisin!