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I cracked up when I saw this last night and rewound/rewatched it three times.

Have a great weekend!

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This short quiz from the University of South Carolina was a fun way to waste 5 minutes.
I got 24 out of 25 and am kicking myself for the one I missed.
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Okay …THIS is the last post of 2007.

NameThatDisease.com will rank you based on a quiz about well-known diseases. Some of the clues may just be trivia…but I still thought it was fun- and I scored “Hawkeye Pierce.” (Woohoo!)

Given that, I can’t imagine that a physician would score lower than Doogie Howser.
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A YouTube user going by the handle of “TVLibrarian” is collecting and posting short clips of librarians and libraries from popular television programs. Neat!
I love this one:

Although I’ve never heard of of a public library volunteer being called a “docent”…
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Becky Jerome points to this fun video in which The Brain teaches us about the anatomy of the brain through song.

Confession: I own Animaniacs soundtracks and DVDs. I love the music and I thought the Wheel of Morality was a riot.

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My friend Dan Mohr pointed out that there are a whole bunch of “year’s best” lists collected here.
I was particularly excited to see the lists of best DVDs and best films which will no doubt influence my Netflix queue- and many libraryfolk will be excited to see the huge collection of best books lists.

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I’m NOT obsessed with television just because I wrote about House MD, the writers strike, and now Scrubs. I’m not. Really.
…Oh, shut up and give me the remote.
The TV show Scrubs mentioned tonight both online rating of physicians and patients who rely on health information from Wikipedia.
Dr. Cox: So you’re declining chemo because […]

A high-resolution version of this video is included in Primal Pictures’ 3D Head and Neck with Basic Neuroanatomy and Special Senses. This innovative product, based on the Visible Human Project, delivers the worlds most detailed, 3D anatomy online, available through statref.com.

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I really, really like House M.D..
Hugh Laurie is fantastic as the eponymous Dr. Gregory House, a vicodin-addicted misanthrope and diagnostic genius. Even when the medicine (or even the writing) isn’t great, Laurie makes the show worth watching.1
If you have seen at least two episodes of the show, keep reading. If you […]

So it turns out that Hitler was a great big fartypants.
His private physician, Dr. Theo Morell, recorded in his diary that after Hitler downed a typical vegetable platter, “constipation and colossal flatulence occurred on a scale I have seldom encountered before.”
I wish I understood why the thought of Adolf Hitler with “colossal…agonizing flatulence” entertains me […]

(Not new, but new to me)
This cartoon features a Buddhist Monkey who defends his/her library from book-desecrating Ninjas. Gory (but brightly-colored) violence and bookshelf-ladder chase sequences ensue.
Not everyone’s taste- but it made me chuckle more than once.
BOOKS OF FURY
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Erin McKean’s TED Talk on dictionaries is wonderful. She’s brilliant and funny and she expanded my vocabulary. Watch and enjoy.

More about McKean here and here.
Also be sure to check out McKean’s blog, Dictionary Evangelist.

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More vintage Sesame Street library fun:

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I’ve mentioned previously that Mayo Libraries are doing a Learning 2.0 program. One of the participants, Mark Wentz, recently wrote The Ballad of Mayo Libraries 2.0 and has kindly allowed me to post it here. Love it!

(To the melody of Paul Henning’s “The Ballad of Jed Clampett.”)
Come learn about Libraries 2.0
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Lee and Sachi LeFever have done it again. Great video introduction to social bookmarking generally and del.icio.us specifically.

Their video on RSS was also exceptionally good.

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This awful thing was pointed out to me by my friend James Alexander, who has a remarkable ability to find and share entertainingly awful things. For your horror and amusement, we present LATAWNYA, the Naughty Horse, Learns to Say “No” to Drugs.
(Some language in the comments is not entirely suitable for some workplaces.)

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I have previously mentioned that I admire Stephen Fry, so I was tickled today to learn from Information Overlord of a video featuring Fry talking about Web 2.0:

VideoJug: Web 2.0

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Okay, it is a little off-topic, but too cool not to mention.
Fritz Bogott is a friend from our days in St. Paul who always impressed me with his intelligence, generousity, sense of humor and creativity. A generally quiet man, he also has great taste in loud music.

Sure, it was cool to watch Jonathan Coulton […]

A scene from A Bit of Fry and Laurie:

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I continue to be surprised how many fans of House, MD hadn’t previously heard of Hugh Laurie (or the wonderful Stephen Fry).
Wikipedia: A […]