Masturbation, libraries, and time travel

Magpie has been a busy bird. In addition to lots of posts about epidemiology, politics, social security "reform," & other exciting topics (did you know that May is National Masturbation Month, for example?), she links to this great collection of postcards made from discarded library card-catalog cards. Beautiful. There's also, speaking of library books, a link to the MIT Time Traveler's Convention coming up May 7, 2005. Can't attend? "No worries! If time travel is invented in your lifetime, you can always come later. Even if it isn't, we'll have pictures and video up at this site within a week after the Convention." If you want to help publicize the event, here are some requests from the organizers:

"Write the details down on a piece of acid-free paper, and slip them into obscure books in academic libraries! Carve them into a clay tablet! If you write for a newspaper, insert a few details about the convention! Tell your friends, so that word of the convention will be preserved in our oral history! A note: Time travel is a hard problem, and it may not be invented until long after MIT has faded into oblivion. Thus, we ask that you include the latitude/longitude information when you publicize the convention."

In case you're from a future in which the MIT East Campus Courtyard is gone, the coordinates are 42:21:36.025°N, 71:05:16.332°W (that's 42.360007,-071.087870 in decimal degrees). Convention organizers credit this excellent Cat and Girl comic for the inspiration.

I love Cat and Girl, by the way.