Miscellaneous Curiosities

Alien Librarians -- A Google groups search that will give you more than you want to know about the conspiracy.

Amusing Searches -- That led to Libr.org, updated regularly.

Awful PAC -- Cautionary example from a presentation on customizing WebPAC.

Babel -- It's art! 3-D representation of DDC for navigating the Web.

BlöödHag -- Seattle speed metal band that aims to "blow your illiterate ass right back to the library." Their music about sci-fi writers includes an EP called Dewey Decibel System.

Books2Eat -- Annual International Edible Book Festival.

Citizens United for a Decent Internet -- We're pretty sure this is a prank or conceptual artwork.

The Don Saklad Tribute Page -- If you don't know who he is, you don't read the right mailing lists or newsgroups.

eBay Sellers' Opinions about "Librarian Clothes: Frumpy or Bumpy? -- A research presentation.

Head Librarian -- Porn site with a "librarian" (wearing nothing but glasses, jewelry and not-very-sensible shoes) featured on the home page. We couldn't find a Head of Adult Services porn site.

I'm With Stupid -- Fun at an Internet porn protest.

Invisible Library -- Catalog of books which exist only in other books.

Jenny Giraffe Discovers the Library -- Illustrated and hyperlinked story for kids. None of the humans in the story seem to realize that they're talking to a giraffe.

Librarian Action Figure -- The official page at Archie McPhee.

Librarian Lynx -- Expensive stuffed animal for sale.

The Librarians -- The rock band, the website. Logo includes a picture of broken nerd glasses.

Librarianship -- A linkful node on everything2.

Library Hotel -- "Each of the ten guest room floors ... is dedicated to one of the ten major categories of the Dewey Decimal System."

Librarian-themed magazine ads:

• Bacardi rum.

• HP

• Mack's Ear Plugs -- "She's not your typical librarian."

• Natural Contours vibrators.

• Tiparillo -- Old ad.

Macho Librarians With Guns -- Character profile for the role-playing game "Macho Women With Guns."

Peep Research -- Marshmallow chicks visit the library.

Sebastian and the Tatooed Love Librarian -- The website for a play.

TextArc -- An unusual, visual text-analysis plaything.

Underneath the Lintel -- Website for a play about a librarian obsessed with tracking down the borrower of a book returned more than a century overdue.

A Valuable Invention for Booksellers, Librarians, Clergymen, and Reading-Men -- An old advertisement, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

wallstreetpoet.com -- "Where John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley meet Alan Greenspan and Abby Cohen."