Tie from Pop Culture Librarian http://librarianwonder.blogspot.com/

RCMP watchdog will probe operation of Mounties in northern B.C. after complaints that women are abused from The Province - News http://www.theprovince.com/news/index.html

Sheet-metal Millennium Falcon model from Boing Boing http://boingboing.net

Everything wrong with Jurassic Park in under 180 seconds from io9 http://io9.com

Every grad school path is unique, but almost all lead to the same dead end: a contingency market in which you must have both personal wealth and a willingness to accept your own exploitation to stay in the game.

RaspberryPi: Creating an eBook server from The Travelin' Librarian http://travelinlibrarian.info

FCBD/ Star Wars Day in the Library. Part One: The Planning and Leadup from Action Librarian http://www.actionlibrarian.com

Bleep Bloop Blertz from MetaFilter http://www.metafilter.com/

#934; Change Team, Activate! from Wondermark http://wondermark.com

Canadian Government Information Management Priorities for 2013-2014 from Stephen's Lighthouse http://stephenslighthouse.com

The best interview with Neal Stephenson you've ever heard from io9 http://io9.com

A funny thing happened on the way to the funeral from MetaFilter http://www.metafilter.com/

Japanese folk music glitch hop from Boing Boing http://boingboing.net

CISPA Is Dead. Now Let's Resurrect It | Wired Opinion | Wired.com from Wired Opinion http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/04/cispas-dead-now-lets-resurrect-it/?utm_source=feedburner

Take the above example of “staring at something to select it”. When you stare at something in everyday life, you’re not using the fovea of your eye as a mental mouse pointer. You’re just looking at stuff. Mapping the bodily experience of “fixating my center of vision on a thing” onto a mental model in which “visually fixating on a thing equals ‘selecting’ that thing for the purpose of further manipulation via technology” is certainly possible. But it’s not at all “natural,” as the Fjord designers glibly assert. Looking is no longer just looking. It’s using your eyes as an abstracted form of “hands” in order to cater to some technological system.

DRM in HTML5 is a betrayal to all Web users and undermines the W3C’s self-stated mission to make the benefits of the Web “available to all people, whatever their hardware, software, network infrastructure, native language, culture, geographical location, or physical or mental ability.” The W3C exists to bring the vision of an undivided ‘One Web’ to its full potential, and DRM is antithetical to that goal.

Things do not always progress, and the successes of progress become thorny problems for the next generation. They don’t stay permanently “better.” Our value judgments about what are better are temporary. They are time-bound. When you overuse the word “better,” it’s like a head-fake, it’s a mantra.

In a world in which nearly everyone is technically a felon, we rely on the good judgment of prosecutors to decide who should be targets and how hard the law should come down on them. We have thus entered a legal reality not so different from that faced by Socrates when the Thirty Tyrants ruled Athens, and it is a dangerous one. When everyone is guilty of something, those most harshly prosecuted tend to be the ones that are challenging the established order, poking fun at the authorities, speaking truth to power — in other words, the gadflies of our society.

Vancouver non-profit organization trying to help Canada's newest members from The Province - News http://www.theprovince.com/news/index.html

Neil Gaiman and The Beat think exactly alike: “Nobody knows.” from The Beat http://comicsbeat.com

Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed from Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed http://www.raptitude.com/2010/07/your-lifestyle-has-already-been-designed/

Superseeds: Storm Trek, Part 1 from RPGnet http://www.rpg.net/columns/

The Billy Pilgrim Traveling Library Goes West from LISNews: http://lisnews.org

“What’s more important is not that he was arrested,” says Paul, “but that for seven years he tried moving his business to Azerbaijan and to various places, and these people, these local journalists, would always find my story. Or some parent who was interested in adopting would find it. So then I realized that archived information has a lot of power. If it’s proper information, if it’s sourced correctly, if it’s put in a good form, if it’s backed by documents, then it can have impact for a very long time.”