#23

I really don't know if there was any task more useful than the others. There were certainly some that we use more often, i.e. placing holds, reader's advisory, etc. but whenever there's someone wanting to put some youtube video into a powerpoint (which isn't that common, but I find rather annoying because I'm not entirely sure myself) I can always point them to zamar now.

My favorite was probably... well, I don't really know. I just liked reading what other people had to say.

#22

I really liked both of the first sites you two listed. I too am of the opinion that recipe books sans pictures are obnoxious. makeuseof was like a webolution unto itself. Almost too overwhelming in its vastness, but very cool none the less.

Both of my favorite sites have "all" in the title. Maybe they're related, maybe not. I'm too lazy to look into this coincidence.

The former is similar to tastespotting but a bit more searchable with similar recipes showing up on the side of each page.

Allmusic is just plain awesome. It's incredibly diverse in its scope, has a lot of depth, can be searched by genre, subgenre, and moods. For every artist you normally get a discography, artists similar to other whoever you're looking at, groups that are influenced by a said group, and bands that influenced that artist. The more obscure the musical artist you search the less information you get, but that can be expected. And, on top of all that you can sign up for a weekly newsletter that shows most (not all, that would be next to impossible, so we'll ignore the implications of the site's name) albums that are being released that week.

#21(Teddy K's Facelift)

This was fun. I can see how it would be very useful to people in the downstairs area. These are my before and afters. Or rather after and befores.

#20

On the county's website I looked up their 2009 Program Drivers under the 2010-2011 Strategic Plan. On pages 28-29 they discuss growth and development. They state that natural gas is an important part of the growth of Mesa County and that "although the industry is in a current downturn, it is anticipated to re-emerge as a significant growth factor."

An interesting Did You Know: Did you know that I really don't like the influx of gas and oil workers that the community gets with their Redneck ways and giant Hummer buying tendencies? I also don't like anything that could ever endanger pristine pretty to the eye nature.

Now. That means that this statement on pages 28-29 lead me to have a distrust in the government, which is, coincidentally enough addressed on page 33 of the same packet.

On the State's site I found out that it is possible to renew a driver license online as long as your license did not expire more than one year ago and you have a Visa, Mastercard, or American Express credit card and valid email address. It will take approximately thirty (30) days to arrive in the mail.

Task #19

I got 100%. Who ray!

I thought this was helpful. It was a nice tour through the wiki to show everyone where things are located.

Task #18

The Flaming Lips recently released a new album. I had heard that it was similar to their older work, and I do rather adore the "Oh My Gawd!!!" album (among others), so I thought I would look up allmusic's review of the new one, "Embryonic," which can be found here:
http://tinyurl.com/yj9cfzq.

As for Zamzar, I think it has a very spiffy name and is also a very spiffy little tool that I will tell patrons about.

Task #17

The first link I clicked on was the 100 best links for librarians of the future. And what is at the top of this page? "Learn-gasm". I was intrigued. By the way, that reminds me of something else; votergasm:

http://www.votergasm.org/

I remember stumbling across that in high school during a government class assignment. It's important to keep things exciting I think.

Anyway, from the 100... area I found a link for bookslut and thought that I would keep up the running theme. It's some fool's blog so I wasn't very interested in it because I don't really dig on blogs, but I did like that they were anti-ebook. I could relate to that.

(Upon proof reading I realized that by saying both "fool" and "dig" I was sounding a bit Mr. T-esque. It was unintentional, but upon review, I like it and will keep it so.)

The next link I found, again from the 100... area was the Days and Nights of the Lipstick Librarian:

http://www.lipsticklibrarian.com/blog/

Another blog, and it starts out with a humorous view on the librarian fetish.

Since both of these were under areas titled as being blog related, I can't really blame anyone but myself for that, but I had to stick with the theme, you know.

I probably wouldn't visit any library related sites in the too distant future. For now I feel that webolution is giving me plenty of library knowledge.