Archive - 2005

Today a colleague printed out Paul English's IVR cheat sheet for the reference desk. Do you sometimes have to call customer service departments of large corporations?

For those of us in mass-transit-less NYC (and elsewhere!), remember the Bicycling Resources page on Rad Ref's Reference Shelf. You can also go directl

I haven't submitted this question to the normal, rigorous fact-checking of a typical Radical Reference interaction, but I did find a scholarly journal article with the history of two plus two by Houston Euler. It's from Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 63, No. 5. (Dec., 1990), pp. 338-339. If you have access to JSTOR, here's a stable URL.

The formula for 2 + 2 = 5.

After quite a bit of hunting on the web, in www.loc.gov pages, and even in U of Minnesota Library (they seem to have microfilm copy of some of the Sevareid papers), I have been unable to find a copy of this transcript online. Lexis Academic appears not to go back far enough in its transcript coverage.

Just a bit before or after 1970, Eric Sevaried did a radio broadcast essay on the meaning of Christmas. I found that his radio scripts are archived at the Library of Congress. Should I be able to get the

Hey all you zine lovers. Check this out. The uber-groovy blog Boingboing actually started out as a zine! Interesting to see the connection between zines and blogs.

Hey y'all. Radical reference now has a wiki to keep track of and give workspace for our collaborative projects. The inaugural project is an Alternative Travel Guide for San Antonio inspired by Meredith Farkas' travel wiki for Chicago newbies.

Here are notes from our December meeting (which also represents our November meeting). Click download below.

The quote I think you are referring to comes from an article from 2002 in the Washington Post. I did Google Search: "'answer to anybody' bush" and one of the first hits was this site:
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Aug04/Samples0824.htm.