No more flamingos...and a social network for nerds

So in the NYT today, there's a sad story that mentions our illustrious institution:

ON Nov. 1, just two months shy of its 50th birthday, the plastic pink flamingo went extinct. Or more accurately, it stopped reproducing, when its manufacturer, Union Products, shut down the factory in Leominster, Mass.... In the 1970s, my rebel generation of middle-class baby boomers adopted the plastic bird to challenge the boundaries of high art and good taste. The gay male subculture made it a mascot, and in 1979 the student government at University of Wisconsin planted a thousand flamingos on the lawn outside the dean’s office.

Also, Katie K caught me being a huge nerd, and here's the proof. And I quote, "LibraryThing is also an amazing social space, often described as 'MySpace for books' or 'Facebook for books.'"