Good grief. RT @pmhswe MT@janaremy: Whoa. The # of PhDs on food stamps went from 9,776 to 33,655 in the past 3 years: http://t.co/bYubf1MQ

Papermaker whose watermark was a unicorn, I salute you across the centuries. http://t.co/9twfx8Ku

At the Beinecke Library. This is James Merrill's Ouija board. You have no idea how excited I was to see it.  http://instagr.am/p/VcAL4GJ0qH/ 

One definition of privilege: being able to wear a hoodie without having to fear being shot for no reason, then blamed for one's own murder.

Today I touched a prayer book that belonged to Thomas More, in which he wrote a prayer while awaiting execution. Special collections RULE.

Usually the idea of photographing strangers & putting their pics online creeps me out, but this blog is the exception: http://t.co/mcuv4dSJ

#operaplot Signora Floria. In the dining room. With the steak knife.

Whoa. UChicago Press just reprinted Martin Rowson's crazily-inventive noir graphic novel version of The Waste Land!  http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/W/bo13219670.html … [+]

THIS. RT @matociquala I love living in a world where a lesbian can be a senator and a couple of rape apologists cannot. This is my future.

New (massively long) blog post about failure, THATCamp, teaching, shame, vulnerability, Middlemarch, and LOLcats:  http://www.limetreebower.net/?p=1114 

I think I'll watch this documentary about @howardlovecraft later this week: http://bit.ly/eE4bCY

This post by @kfitz on social media and shame culture ( http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/blog/if-you-cant-say-anything-nice/ …) is making me think a lot about my own fear of being shamed.

Someone modified our reference desk over the weekend...  http://instagram.com/p/ZicrRKJ0v-/ 

This hits all my geek buttons at once. MT @janineveazue World's only woven Book of Hours, created w/Jacquard loom:  http://ow.ly/i6FTb 

Stephen Nichols: medieval authors didn't fetishize the physical manuscript object as much as people do today in wake of digital #s198 #mla13

Governor Romney: I was raised in a single-parent family. And you know what? I'VE NEVER SHOT ANYBODY.

The ACRL DH+ Lib project: http://t.co/L4kkIyMh (thanks @roxanneshirazi!) #tcny2012

Library as "neutral ground" where faculty from different disciplines can talk to each other w/o impinging on each other's turf. #tcny2012

Learning Python for humanists: http://t.co/MMAnb0vN #tcny2012

"If anything, social media is a counterweight to the ongoing devaluation of human lives." THIS. http://t.co/LtNJzcJG