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Prospector

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Dang! I can’t believe I didn’t know about this before now. But Cass’, the incredibly cute young thing up in Laramie, pointed me out to Prospector. Prospector is a catalog of twenty three libraries in Colorado and Wyoming. Through Prospector you have access to over 20 million books, journals, DVDs, CDs, videos and other materials held in these libraries. With a single search you can identify and borrow materials from the collections and have them delivered to your local library. It’s so easy I can’t believe it. This is gonna save tons of time and increase my library usage.

If your interested in other useful local library tools you should check out this incredibly helpful bookmarklet. It allows you to both search for and hold books books at the Denver’s Public Library straight from any Amazon.com book page. This will allow you to quickly find out if the library has the book before I purchase it.

Wednesday’s Wonderful World Of Wikipedia: The Mpemba Effect

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This time around on Wednesdays Wonderful World of Wikipedia, I present to you the Mpemba Effect. I been told many times that the Mpemba Effect actually existed. However, nobody was ever able to give me the name of it, they just told me that it was true. It goes against everything (which is very little, mind you) I know about thermodynamics so I have always blown it off as urban legend.

Haikus

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Haikus are easy
But sometimes they don’t make sense
Refrigerator

I thought that was funny
I wish I could take credit
for that, but I can’t

Wednesday’s Wonderful World Of Wikipedia: Bacon Number

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This week on Wednesdays Wonderful World of Wikipedia is Bacon Number. The Bacon number of an actor or actress is the number of degrees of separation they have from actor Kevin Bacon, as defined by the game known as Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. The computation of a Bacon number N for X is a “shortest path” algorithm. It involves computing the Bacon number for all film actors who X has acted with. Notably Bacon is not the most linkable actor. That honor goes to Rod Steiger. The average Steiger number in the acting community is 2.679. By contrast, the average Bacon number is 2.946.

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