http://tags.library.upenn.edu/tag/fun PennTags Feed http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/33352 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/33352 <p> <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="243" height="200" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"> <param name="src" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="243" height="200" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IfegfUyoxQc"></embed> </object> </p> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/30919 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/30919 <p>Famous Catalogers&rsquo; Course</p> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/30415 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/30415 <p><img title="millsberry" src="http://clubpenguincheater.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/millsberry.png" alt="millsberry" width="182" height="86" /></p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Website for kids; version of simcity</strong></span></span></p> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/30425 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/30425 <p>used for fun and games</p> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/30424 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/30424 <p>used for fun purposes</p> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/28233 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/28233 <div class="mlacite"> Rehak, Melanie. . <span style="text-decoration: underline">Girl sleuth : Nancy Drew and the women who created her / Melanie Rehak. </span> 1st ed. 0151010412 (alk. paper) series Orlando : Harcourt, c2005. <br />Call#: Van Pelt Library PS3545.I774 Z874 2005</div><div class="mlacite">&nbsp;</div><div class="mlacite">A fun read!&nbsp; The story behind the pseudonym &quot;Carolyn Keene&quot;, and the two women most responsibile for creating Nancy Drew (Mildred Wirt Benson and Harriet Stratemeyer Adams). </div><br /> <br /> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/21292 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/21292 <p>A blast from the past (including good old electric erasers ;)</p><p>Now updated to include preservation and circulation artifacts, and other misc. library 'technology'&nbsp;</p> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/25485 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/25485 &quot;Steroid&quot; Scandal Rocks Major League Libraries, a satirical response to erosion of support for cataloging at the Library of Congress, by Daniel Cohen (December 14, 2007). http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/25364 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/25364 Someone has way too much time on their hands!&nbsp;&nbsp; See also http://www.serialssolutions.com/ http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/25282 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/25282 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/24861 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/24861 A wiki of skills which are considered obsolete, such as &quot;Adjusting a television's horizontal and vertical holds&quot; and &quot;Calling collect on a pay phone&quot; http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/23866 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/23866 A web game to shelve books by LC classification. Fun, but they seem to have some letter combinations which don't exist in LCC http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/22215 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/22215 Results of the 2nd annual contest http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/22107 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/22107 3 minutes of bugs eating books - set to techno music! http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/21126 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/21126 Especially note the entry for Historical Society of Pennsylvania--a cataloger ghost!<br />&quot;A spectral typist frequently heard in a room on the third floor is said to be the ghost of cataloger Albert J. Edmunds. Voices, footsteps, shadowy forms, and an address-label machine that operated without being plugged in have been well-witnessed.&quot; http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/19443 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/19443 A New Song For The Modern Librarian<br />by Indie Pop Band SNMNMNM http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/19131 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/19131 Some interesting uses for old books http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/19073 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/19073 <p>&quot;I have seen the future of libraries: It is to spend the future discussing the future of libraries.&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/18225 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/18225 An oldie, but goodie http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/17851 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/17851 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/17756 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/17756 What really happens at ALA http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/16641 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/16641 Really wild set of games that tease and challenge the mind.&nbsp; A great waste of time, but very creative...<br /> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/16176 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/16176 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/15378 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/15378 <p>From the website:</p><blockquote><p>Call them pipes, teqlos, dapps, modules, mashups or whatever else but fact is that recently we have seen a good number of new services that allow developers and users to build mini-apps and mashups that mix and re-mix data. Here we run through 5 applications that allow you to mix, rip and mash your data, looking at the data input, output, REST support, suggested use, and required skill level&nbsp;</p></blockquote> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/15352 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/15352 March is so much fun!<br /> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/15314 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/15314 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/15238 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/15238 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/14641 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/14641 This is great!&nbsp; Now, if only they will listen...<br /> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/14585 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/14585 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/14455 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/14455 Fenway pahk, hahvad yahd, bill buckner, and south boswton...and you get to save the city too.<br /> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/14307 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/14307 Video on Web 2.0 <br /> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/14025 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/14025 New 'tool' predidts the next library system mergers and product developments<br /> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/13350 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/13350 Create image of an old catalog card, including hand-written annotations<br /> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/11967 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/11967 A good laugh!<br /> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/13179 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/13179 A holiday tag cloud from RLG &amp; OCLC<br /> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/8696 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/8696 Fun video! <br /> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/9228 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/9228 Interesting web 'art' based on expressions of feelings gathered from blogs<br /> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/12966 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/12966 A wonderful visual metaphor to answer the question &quot;what is metadata?&quot;<br /> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/12076 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/12076 <p>The virtual reality site Second Life has several virtual libraries and is now looking for catalogers to help with<br />creating a virtual catalog for their virtual resources [yes, this is for real&nbsp; - or is it???]<br /></p> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/11768 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/11768 <p>From the website:</p><blockquote><p>CSIRO Research engineer Dr Richard Helmer is interviewed about the wearable guitar which works by recognising and interpreting arm movements and relaying this wirelessly to a computer for audio generation. It then shows him demonstrating it.</p></blockquote> <div class="pullOutQuote"><blockquote><blockquote>&ldquo;Developing the air guitar was a technical challenge for precision textile-based sensing.&rdquo; </blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><div class="pullOutQuoteSource">Dr Richard Helmer</div><div class="pullOutQuoteSource">Research engineer</div><div class="pullOutQuoteSource">CSIRO Textile &amp; Fibre Technology</div></blockquote><p>The intent of this clip is to&nbsp;explain the instrument, its&nbsp;postural flexibility and ability to repeatedly play performance parts with the CSIRO wearable instrument shirt guitar.</p><p>The wearable instrument shirt is a conventional black long sleeve T-shirt and the textile motion sensors used by the instrument for monitoring elbow movements and&nbsp;computer interface are not directly discernable in the garment.</p></blockquote> </div> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/11632 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/11632 LibraryThing's UnSuggester tool turns recommendation on its head.&nbsp;&nbsp; By entering your favorite books, you can find the least likely books to be read by others who own the same.&nbsp; <br /> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/11161 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/11161 r-e-a-d-a-b-o-o-k, r-e-a-d-a-b-o-o-k, r-e-a-d-a-b-o-o-k http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/11072 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/11072 Guide to pronouncing the names of contemporary public figures, both phonetic and audio clips<br /> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/9043 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/9043 Unshelved now has an index to their Sunday &quot;book reviews&quot;<br /> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/5879 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/5879 This catalog has a feature to view the catalog record as a beat-up, type-written catalog card. You can even add &quot;hand-written&quot; marginalia to the card image. Fun, but I'm not sure what it adds to the user experience. <br /> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/8437 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/8437 Slides show, with music, showing various art works created with old catalog cards.&nbsp; From Columbus State University (Ga.)<br /> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/6462 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/6462 Find out why it's so easy to fall in love with Firefox.&nbsp; Want a better web experience?<br /> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/5862 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/5862 Playing in the sand...<br /> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/3353 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/3353 Ok, make a date to waste much time at this site...<br /> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/3113 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/3113 Ok, have a little fun.&nbsp; Upload your pic, and find out which celebrity you look like.<br />