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Pluto, you're still my favorite

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It's the Virgo month of leisure, did you know it? The Pope says working too hard is bad for you, too. Thoreau is, as ever, a good role model. And How to be Idle is the best book I've read all year.

"Kinder auf Infojagd"

Library Mistress, a librarian in Austria, wrote a recent blog post with that title. I love that word, "Infojagd" - much better than "information-seeking." The post talks about some pretty cool kids' programming the library is offering, as well as some online games on the Vienna library web site. There's Bookman, like Pac Man, and Falling Thinx, which seems to be prepping kids for careers in circ and delivery sorting.

YouTubed

I won't do this too often, promise. YouTube - How To Steal A Library Book.

Capital Times on jail audit & overcrowding

Today's article, Jail audit a stall tactic, Hamblin says, gives some interesting numbers.

On Aug. 10, the jail population was 1,204, including inmates housed in other jails or on electronic monitoring at home. The capacity of the three facilities comprising the jail is 949.

The maximum-security jail, on the top two floors of the City-County Building, has 341 beds, including 24 segregation cells. It's currently 89 percent full; Hamblin said jail guidelines recommend no more than 80 percent capacity in maximum-security cells.

County Board Chairman Scott McDonell seems to want to make sure inmates are assigned to the right security level, possibly to take advantage of the lack of overcrowding at the Ferris work-release center. Meanwhile, it sounds like the Sheriff says inmates have learned to game the system and get labeled as disruptive if they want to stay in Dane County.

Either way, I don't see why an audit would be a bad idea if the county is making plans to alleviate this problem.

Been quiet.

I went to Cleveland for a library thing.

Then I went to Boulder and lost my camera's USB cable.

Update: then I bought a new cable.