Kind of an interesting news story that, in the end, leads to a library-related conclusion. James Randi, the well-known challenger of psychics, has an item placed in a locker, and has offered a million dollars to the person who can state what the item is.<\/p>\n
To establish what is in the locker, he posted a code in his newsletter<\/a> that would identify it:<\/p>\n 0679 I didn’t see anything in the code that gave me any clues, but once I read the solution, I realized that many of us who work in libraries should be able to figure this out. If you feel like it, look it over for a while before clicking any of the following links.<\/p>\n Matt Blaze’s blog entry<\/a> (the person who figured it out, using non-psychic ability).<\/p>\n The first step of the solution<\/a>; here, as well<\/a>.<\/p>\n (update:\u00a0 I showed this to Mary Ann, the Acquisitions Librarian at MPOW, and she identified\u00a0the code\u00a0in less than two minutes.\u00a0 Good work!)<\/p>\n from 27B Stroke 6<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kind of an interesting news story that, in the end, leads to a library-related conclusion. James Randi, the well-known challenger of psychics, has an item placed in a locker, and has offered a million dollars to the person who can … Continue reading
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