"Week 5" - Pinterest

Well, it is now April and the 23Things is theoretically done. Still working on catching up.

Week five was on Pinterest, which is an interesting site. I created an account, added a board linking to some online sources of historical information (E.g. photo collections at Saint John Free Public Library and New Brunswick Museum websites). Then I followed some library related boards.

I honestly don't think my new Pinterest account will get very much use (not really my cup of tea), but I am happy to finally know what exactly it is!

Week 4 - Images!

By Vega asensio (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

So week 4 - which I am completing some weeks later - offered some very helpful advice on finding creative commons images and on the value of using Wordle image generator (or other tools) to create your own images. Very informative....


On an unrelated note, did you ever notice that scientific names for animals often have identical genus and species names? This is never seen in plants because the rules for botanical nomenclature do not allow it, which is too bad because it is so much fun to say those repetitive names. For example, the magpie is known as Pica pica, the red fox as Vulpes vulpes (like Mr Fox in the film Fantastic Mr Fox), and the magnificent Eurasian Eagle Owl is known as Bubo bubo, pictured right:






In closing, please enjoy this Wordle image in honor of funny scientific names. Ciao!