A nice catalog interface

I was looking at catalog interfaces for my current class, and I came across the web site of the public library in my home town: Escondido, California. They have a great looking and highly functional catalog available online complete with links to reviews from Library Journal and Publisher's Weekly, and the ability to search by just about any criteria you can imagine.

The engine is run by epitex, inc. It looks like they modeled themselves after online retailers like Amazon, yet kept the functionality of a library. Well done.

Escondido Public Library Home

Boing Boing: Report: Indian gov blocks Blogspot, Typepad, Geocities blogs (UPDATED)

Oh, India. Why would you do such a thing? It augurs poorly for Indian democracy.

Boing Boing: Report: Indian gov blocks Blogspot, Typepad, Geocities blogs (UPDATED): "Yes folks, the Indian government has decided to censor blogs and refused to explain why. "

Boing Boing: US copyright law in verse

Boing Boing: US copyright law in verse: "Yehuda has rewritten 17USC -- the American Copyright Act -- as a long poem:

101
We start off defining
People and media
Terms you can also find
On Wikipedia

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Copyright is for writings,
Music, dance, drama,
Movies, buildings everywhere
Even Alabama"