Happy _____ Day!

So, happy 100th birthday, Jonas Salk - and you get your very own Google Doodle! Learn more about the doctor and the vaccine he gave to the people of the world.

Today is also the Feast Day of St. Jude! He's the saint of lost causes, desperate situations, and the impossible. You can probably understand why I like him.

In other news, I finished building my latest D&D character, a Changeling elementalist named Jinx, with a cat called Trouble. I'm hoping they last longer than two weeks.

Links!

• Libraries, Books, & Authors
• What Book Should You Read Next? Putting Librarians And Algorithms To The Test "The real difference, then, between the library’s BookMatch service and a site like Amazon or Netflix may be less about the method and more about the motive. One is commercial, the other is not. Both want to recommend books people will like--but the commercial interest is to sell more books and the calculations behind that are not transparent to the user. Librarians, says David Weinberger, the recent co-director of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab, are 'unreservedly' on the side of the reader, and often attempt to expand the reader’s interests and stretch his worldview."
• Librarians Embroiled in Lawsuit Alleging Sexual Harassment 
• Students Petition Library of Congress to ‘Drop the I-Word’ 
• A Congolese Mother Of Six Is Honored For Her Death-Defying Journalism "Lusiku Nsimire, who last week won a Courage in Journalism award from the International Women's Media Foundation, has defied death threats and attacks on her family to publish articles about government corruption, injustices against women and international aid abuses." 
• Antarctic Explorer's Notebook Found And Restored After 100 Years In Ice Wow!
• Net & Tech
• Eye Catcher, the frame that responds to your emotions Nifty!
• Fed up, US cities take steps to build better broadband Can we make New Orleans (and Metairie, of course) next on the list? That would be nice!
• Predictive Policing and Automated Peace "Few of us would disagree with law enforcement using social media to help expose sex offenders or murderers. Community outreach groups that watch social media and offer real-time responses to, say, suicidal messages, are providing an important service. But we should keep an eye on who’s doing the watching, and who’s being watched. Constant online monitoring by both police and private sector can make the idea of round-the-clock hidden surveillance seem natural, and it opens the door for policing any behavior seen as deviant. (The 'crimes' hunted by the eComm unit include self harm, flash mobs, and 'unsanctioned protests.')"
• Science
• Religious post: Pope Francis declares evolution and Big Bang theory are right and God isn't 'a magician with a magic wand' 
• Why Rear Facing: the Science Junkie’s Guide 
• Researchers Discover A New Key Player In HIV's Life Cycle 
• Other
• It's come to this? Forest Service: Stop taking 'selfies' with bears 
• The American Dream Is Leaving America "A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility. But the American dream seems to have emigrated because many countries do better than the United States in educational mobility, according to the O.E.C.D. study."
• Poverty, Not Gluttony, Is the Cause of Obesity 
• Americans are taking the least vacation time in 40 years