New videos at the Madison Library, just in time for New Year’s: Madagascar; Riding Giants, a surfing movie by the director of Dogtown and Z-Boys; 25th (!) anniversary edition of The Blues Brothers; The Polar Express; Mr. & Mrs. Smith;
Finding humans
Here’s a very helpful list that I found on PUBLIB with phone numbers and extensions or voice commands that will find an actual human voice when calling dreaded 800 numbers like those for airlines, credit card companies, Social Security, Amazon.com,
New books, end of 2005
Rounding out the library’s acquisitions for 2005 are, in nonfiction: Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution by Stephen Breyer; President Reagan: The Triumph of Imagination by Richard Reeves; Teacher Man by Frank McCourt; Why Do I Love These People? by