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Okay, the Babes With Books photoblog is just creepy. Even creepier than the Cleavage Blog from the same folks (which recently featured "sexy librarian cleavage").

But not as creepy as their Sleeping Cuties blog.

Gotta admit that some of the "Why is this girl ... ?" headings for the pics on Cutie Curiosa made us laugh, though.

Now, there's an accurately named (and rather entertaining) Flickr group!

If you want to take a break from everyone who's conblogging Internet Librarian, slide on over to Nerve.com's COPA trial blog. Nerve is one of the parties challenging the Child Online Protection Act, which, if enforced by the letter of the law, would require just about anyone who puts just about anything about sex on the Web "for commercial purposes" to treat teenagers in San Francisco -- and adults who don't want to hand out their credit card numbers everywhere they go -- as if they were 10-year-olds living in rural Iowa: No, you're not allowed to look at that naughty stuff, kiddie. Access denied.

From Day 1 of the trial:

Okay, so first things first: as Rufus pointed out, there were no wall-sized, full-color come shots projected onto the wall of Courtroom 1701 today. This was, as you can imagine, a major bummer, both for Rufus — who wouldn’t have founded this site if he weren’t a total perv (JK!) — and myself, an ex-phone-sex operator who got out of bed at 5 a.m. and dragged herself to the train station in total darkness under the impression that the rewards would involve early-morning courthouse snatch.

The silver lining was that the only people who wanted to see JuicyBoobs (motto: “You must want to see movies depicting women with very big breasts naked and having fun”) more than us were the Justice Department lawyers ...

If you haven't spent time with Microsoft's Ms. Dewey (MS Dewey?) yet, go play with her. Definitely an interesting search interface, and germane to the ongoing discussions about personal connections being a big advantage that librarians have over web search engines. (We're not totally comfortable participating in MSFT's viral marketing, but we figure that at least a few Microsoft hatas are gonna really hate this. For example, the site takes ... a ... long ... time ... to ... load.)

Okay, we're a little late getting this done (the library where we work is doing Teen Read Week events next week), but the anAACRonisms have recorded a mercifully short TRW song and crappy video. Lyrics are here.



Oh, speaking of next week, it's our last week at the library. New job starts November 6. We'll still be in the public sector doing libraristic work, but in a consulting role. And we'll continue to not write very much about work at all.

Now, this YouTube clip -- a scripted scene at a ref desk -- is actually funny. LOL funny. (Fans of "The Office" and despair.com should like it, anyway.) And it oughta be made part of every library's customer-service training, as an example of "Service Don'ts".

It's sad that some libraries and library employees are sometimes like this, though.

Okay, now, the real joke is on the callers, because they apparently think they're being original, clever, and funny. "Hey, let's call the library and ask for porn!" No one's ever done that before! Since they seem to be older than 12, let's all point and laugh at the clueless idjits, children. LOL.

Library Journal is accepting nominations for next year's Movers & Shakers issue. We're thinking about putting forward former Representative Mark Foley, for so clearly demonstrating that requiring libraries and schools to block MySpace and other social networking sites would offer only a false sense of protecting teens from online sexual predators.

Deadline for M&S nominations is November 1.

T.J. reminded us of some librarians we know:

"Don't underestimate me, Luke. I read books. And I watch Battlestar Galactica."