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Garrett shared some cool links in his weekly email, including news about Google’s search changes I read in The Boston Globe earlier. I’m just going to copy and paste from his email.

How to Search For Certain Colors in Google Images
 http://ow.ly/1owr
(Source: neiljohnford)
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Top 10 Electronic Reminder Services
 http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,234…
(Source: ResourceShelf)
Two new improvements to Google results pages
 http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/t…
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100 Free Useful Mac [...]

Erica Smith, journalist, newspaper and multimedia designer at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has a nifty multimedia website called Paper Cuts which lists all of the layoffs, closings and other news in the newspaper field.
As of March 16, 2009, 5,046 plus jobs have been lost in the United States.
For more info:
http://graphicdesignr.net/papercuts/
Posted by Rich

Facebook reports that people have uploaded 10 billion photo to the site:
“Now, that’s a big number, but we actually store four image sizes for each uploaded photo, so that’s over 40 billion files.”
Other stats:
* 2-3 Terabytes of photos are being uploaded to the site every day
* We [...]

Heather Johnson of BestCollegesOnline.com has a list of “100 ways to improve usability in libraries”:
“With the popularity of Library 2.0, libraries are getting more complicated these days, and it’s becoming harder to make sure that everyone is happy. You have to stay on top of online collections, new library programs, websites, and more. Read on to [...]

Sarah Houghton-Jan of the LibrarianInBlack blog has a list of nifty readers advisory online tools:
# AllReaders.com – One of the first free, online readers advisory tools, no list of this nature would be complete without AllReaders. Search by what you’re interested in – title, author, plot, setting, character, adversaries, setting, style, etc. The guided [...]

nbsp;Lifehacker.com, a nifty website, usually posts Ask MetaFilter roundups, one of which had the following question:
“What am I missing in my diet that I crave Chocolate Chip cookies all the time?:
“I want to eat chocolate chip cookies almost all the time. The only time I don’t want to eat them is the couple of days [...]

Smashing Magazine has scores of nifty resources on free icons, WordPress themes, wallpapers, web newspaper designs, fonts, pictures, Ajax and Java scripts, tools and screensavers. Though you might check each site for any copyright info:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/
Link via What I Learned Today:

Kevin Bondelli’s YD Blog posted “80 Online Resources For Book Lovers”:
Social Networking for Book Lovers
1. LibraryThing is probably my favorite book-related resource on the web. I use it to catalog my personal library, as well as discover new books, find people with similar reading interests, discuss books, and more. Membership is free for a library [...]

Hey v, I’m sure by now you’ve read The Boston Globe’s cover business article yesterday about digitizing children’s books at the Boston Public Library. I couldn’t help thinking about you while I learned about the efforts to digitize rare, old, and fragile children’s books from the collection in order to share them online via the [...]

I can’t remember now where I first saw this list of free wifi spots in Denver, Colorado, but I know I first discovered it while reading through lots of info about the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference there, June 2-7. The list has lots of other cities, too. Very useful.