Still busy, catching up:
But a few fun things:

Scrablog fill in the scrabble tiles to see how many points you can get. Enter the answer in 'comments'. (via Library Stuff)

Ottmar Liebert. If you love the music, you'll like the blog. (via Shifted Librarian)

Merlefest. 231 days away. Tickets available online. (via Metafilter).

Chapter one of The Baghdad Blog. (via IDO3)

And, fascinating story on Nexis hacker:

Hacker runs up Nexis bills on NYT account

More on the NYT Nexis hacker from securityfocus.com $100 a search? Seems possible to me, if he was searching ALL files.