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Last login: 7 hours agoSallyjacobs: The Practical Archivist is a 39 year old woman from South Central, Wisconsin, USA.; Likes 2,467 pages, 76 videos, 201 photos • 109 fans • Received 20 reviews; Member since Jul 06, 2007

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DriveSavers breathes life into a dead drive | Geek.com: 8:45am 3 reviews computers, digital-preservation
http://www.geek.com/drivesavers-breathes-life-into-a-dead-drive/; How much is your data worth?

Technically, the data on your hard drive might be recoverable even after it crashes...but it's gonna cost ya over a thousand bucks. My advice? Spend a lot less $$ on a second backup drive, use it regularly and save not only your data, but also hundreds of dollars.

Having said that, click through to read about what $1,900 will buy. It involves these dudes:

Seths Blog: Breaking the glass: May 12, 9:33am 6 reviews marketing
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/05/breaking-the-gl.html; Visual reminder that change is scary and messy but still necessary.

Cost of hops crops hits tops: Wont someone please think of the beer? - Boing Boi…: May 12, 7:22am 1 review beer
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/11/costs-of-hops-crops.html; From the page: "Won't someone please think of the beer?"

StumbleUpon - NonstopRobots web site reviews and blog: May 12, 7:18am 26 reviews stumblers, science
http://nonstoprobot.stumbleupon.com/; This one is dedicated to sheaman, in thanks for his "glass half full" reminder.

via nonstoprobot via zombiewhore.

Junkie Nation - CommonDreams.org: May 12, 7:18am 2 reviews politics, china, resource-wars
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/07/8792/; From the page: "It's not surprising that the biggest buyer of American scrap metal is the world's biggest consumer/manufacturer, China...While it's nice to have a booming industry in Vermont, you can see that this one has its limitations.

Since we're not a manufacturing country anymore, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that we could easily run out of scrap metal if this keeps up. And even though America still needs metal for houses, cars and appliances, we're competing for our own scrap with countries that can pay much more."

Batman in Vietnamese - Boing Boing: May 11, 8:51am 1 review comics, batman, boing-boing, vietnamese
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/09/batman-in-vietnamese.html; I'm linking to the BB article because the comments are super fun.

Preserving Old Movies, At 40 Degrees, Archivists Fight To Save Classic Films By …: May 11, 8:41am 2 reviews filmmaking, energy, peak-oil, preservation
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/10/entertainment/main4085779.shtml?sou...; From the page: "The magical way in which a chilly, dry setting retards shrinking, fading or "nitric melt" inevitably raises concern about the long-term survival of other vulnerable pieces of the world's film heritage, from safety-based acetate stock adopted in the 1950s to television recordings to flimsy digital-video cassettes."

For this Peak Oil Cassandra (who also happens to be an archivist) it raises another Really. Big. Question: How long will archival institutions be able to afford that kind of energy usage? And don't say digital will save us. The average Data Center consumes as much energy as 25,000 households.

Agbrams profile - StumbleUpon: May 11, 8:32am 1 review stumblers, librarians
http://agbram.stumbleupon.com/; Library love!

The Small Object Steno Pad & Reusable Sandwich Wrap: May 11, 8:25am 2 reviews sewing, diy
http://thesmallobject.com/stenopad/wordpress?p=1263; I really want one of these reusable sandwich wrappers that doubles as a placemat when you open it up.

Must! Learn! Sewing!

I mean, seriously. What could be easier? This is pinch-pot level here. And I'm not even going to mess with the icky vinyl, just cloth. Machine washable, amen.