Training Your Brain

An ALA online newsletter sent me to a NY Times article with lots of information regarding how important it is to keep 'mind fit.' Searchig the web, I found that you can go to Luminosity for a 14-day trial. Most of these brain fitness companies charge for their programs. Free programs online such as Sudoku and Kakuro, crosswords and the like may do the same. Try DKM Software's for a free online version. You can also download a version for not much money. There are free versions of loads of mind games on the web to exercise you brain to stay fit.

Class of 2011

BELOIT, Wis. - Most of the students entering college this fall, members of the class of 2011, were born in 1989. For them, Alvin Ailey, Andrei Sakharov, Huey Newton, Emperor Hirohito, Ted Bundy and Abbie Hoffman have always been dead.

Read the whole story at MSNBC

From Library Link of the Day

Whistler's Mother

Visit Jigsaw Zone for great online puzzles with all shapes of pieces and sizes of puzzles.

LibVibe

You can get a weekly subscription ... or RSS feed the LibVibe to your Google homepage.

Born Cinematographers

Bellingham Public Library kids created something special this summer! Read the article in the Milford Daily News.

Jell-O Brick Roads

The Jell-O Gallery Museum is located at the end of the Jell-O Brick Road in Leroy, New York. Read a related book, A Jell-o Biography by Carolyn Wyman.

ZabaSearch

Zabasearch is a controversial search engine that ONLY returns results from what is already publicly accessible on the web. Zabasearch is great for finding names, addresses, and phone numbers (and sometimes birth dates) quickly and easily. It is a bit creepy to find yourself listed with all known addresses, past and present. However, I have been less frustrated trying to find an address or phone number that I've misplaced.

For other good search engines to help find public records, obituaries and the like, check out this Technophilia.

Quirky Books

Dave Borgenicht, the founder of Quirk Books, coauthored of the wildly successful Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook. Quirk Books has some great titles, worthy of checking out, searchable in these and other categories: Food & Drinks, Gifts, How-To, Love & Relationships, Parenting, Pets, Pop Culture and SmartsCo. They also carry some games. Big, Fat Lies Each card in this trivia games contains two statements. One is true, the other is not. Can you spot the Big Fat Lie?

If You Give This Rabbitt a Photograph ...

My soon-to-be daughter-in-law sent us photos of a recent trip up Ruby Peak in Oregon ... which sent me to the Web looking for heights and details. I found this great site, America's Roof.com. From there you can find links to the world's highest peaks, the Northeast's top 4000 footers, etc. Which led me to a search of a movie I remembered, K2, which was a wonderful adventure. Blockbuster had no record of it ... neither did Netflix. Thank goodness for the C/W MARS catalog. K2 was released on video in 1992 and I've requested it from another library.

Boston Globe on Good Circulation

From Library Link of the Day check out the Boston Globe's July 29th article on Northwest Massachusetts libraries' circulation increases. There are two related articles posted with it.