Author: thornet

slide rulz: a librarian’s best friend?

For anyone that mourning the death of slide rulers rules, dry your eyes because the OITP Copyright Slider is alive and on the market! While the slider vaguely recalls the horrendous Mathland modules I suffered through in Department of Defense Dependents Schools, it does indeed…

a true friend hangs up at 0:59

A friend of mine and I recently had an enlightening conversation about cell phone minutes. And about the fact that each new minute of the conversation is charged at a full minute price, even if you only talked a few seconds over. This lead us…

[citation needed]: on truth and trust

A clever Wikifitti artist recently hatched a real world mash-up inspired by Wikipedia’s ubiquitous quality-control phrase, [citation needed]. The phrase was printed on stickers and cheeky citizens pasted them next to bold and outrageous statements, particularly in advertisements, in order to demand, albeit mockingly, some…

aber hallo, welt

So this is thornet, my long-postponed plunge into the blogosphere. My name’s Michelle, and I intend to incite a fiery search engine ranking war against my Googlegänger, that other, more notorious Michelle Thorne. Ok, well actually, thornet is really just about having my own cozy…