Sometimes, a hug is all what we need. Free hugs is a real life controversial story of Juan Mann, A man whos sole mission was to reach out and hug a stranger to brighten up their lives.

In this age of social disconnectivity and lack of human contact, the effects of the Free Hugs campaign became […]

This video was created for library staff in service day at the St. Joseph County Public Library in South Bend, Indiana. Set to Madonna’s “Ray of Light,” and inspired by the video of the song, this video details a day in the life of a thriving public library system, highlighting the faces and places that […]

As September comes to a close, it’s a good time to point out that Wikipedia has an option to view the Top 100 viewed pages of every month. In September 2006, sex-related pages (List of Sexual Positions, Sex, Pornography) compete with popular media stories (Steve “Crocodile Hunter” Irwin, Dawson College Shootings) and more general […]

The Faces of YouTube - heartwarming, melancholy, profound, beautiful all at once. (via MetaFilter)

I know this is my second Google-related FFL in a row but this one’s worth it. Google has partnered with the American Library Association to create a special page in honour of Banned Books Week (Sept 23-30). (This is the equivalent of Freedom to Read Week in Canada which happens during the last […]

Google Accessible Search is “an early Google Labs product designed to identify and prioritize search results that are more easily usable by blind and visually impaired users. Regular Google search helps you find a set of documents that is most relevant to your tasks. Accessible Search goes one step further by helping you find the […]

Do you ever have one of those moments where your mind briefly conceptualizes some gigantic idea? This illustration of the population of the earth using pixels had the same effect for me. (via Digg)

- JH

Hot Library Smut isn’t what it sounds like and is worth a look. (Safe For Work - unless you’re not allowed to surf the Internet at work at all)
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As a follow-up to last week’s FFL about Book Mooch, here’s a link to Book Thing, a non-profit organization in Baltimore which offers all of the books it has in stock for free to local citizens.

Book Mooch is a new web site which helps facilitate the exchange of used books you no longer need for books you really want, all for the cost of postage. (via MetaFilter)