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Global Accessibility Awareness Day – May 9

Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day. It’s a day to consider how people with disabilities experience the web, software, mobile devices, games and so on, targeted towards designers, developers, usability professionals and others without much experience with accessibility. There are public events scheduled all over the world, as well as other accessibility-related events. To participate on your own, [...]

Posted 09 May 2013 § Censorship § Internet § Mobile § Technology § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Two Tales of Crime & Punishment: Guess Who Comes Out Looking Better – The Cops or the Librarians? (Okay, It’s the Feds Who Look Bad…As Usual)

The police often get the short end of the stick in terms of public perception but stories like this one show there are definitely good cops out there. In my line of work, it’s not often that you can arrest somebody on multiple occasions and end up being friends with them. On the flip side [...]

Posted 02 May 2013 § Canada § Censorship § Jobs § Library § Sappy § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

A Psychic Reveals His Greatest Trick

…and it’s actually kinda terrifying.  (h/t JG)

Posted 28 March 2013 § Censorship § Computer § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

FTRW 2013 – Bonus Post – #ftrweek – 10 Most Shocking Documentaries of All-Time

Every year, Freedom to Read Week comes to an end and I feel like I have so many posts I could do left in the hopper.  I thought about doing a link dump of all the things I’ve collected but instead, I’ll just post one last one… Top 10 Shocking Documentaries of All-Time

Posted 03 March 2013 § Censorship § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

FTRW 2013 – Day 7 – RPL Film Theatre #ftrweek Line-up

One of the great things about working at Regina Public Library is that we have a couple very unique elements compared to most other public libraries in Canada – we have an in-house, fully operational art gallery and we also have a single screen art house theatre. As far as I know, this was the [...]

Posted 02 March 2013 § Censorship § Photo § PopCulture § SaturdaySnap § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

FTRW 2013 – Day 6 – #ftrweek – I’m Going To Hell For This

/r/ImGoingToHellForThis is a sub-Reddit dedicated to “Tasteless “politically incorrect” dark, offensive, & twisted humor of all types is welcome here. Absolutely NOTHING & NOBODY is sacred, taboo, or beyond being joked about.” aka a perfect way to end Freedom to Read Week.

Posted 01 March 2013 § Censorship § FridayFunLink § Humour § PopCulture § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

FTRW 2013 – Day 5 – #ftrweek – Tom Flanagan and the Limits of Freedom of Expression #cndpoli

Yesterday, I said that during Freedom to Read Week, often everything starts to look like a Freedom of Expression issue. I didn’t mention another aspect of this in that sometimes, something that looks like a freedom of expression issue could also actually highlight something else – potentially even something criminal. And lo and behold, something [...]

Posted 28 February 2013 § Censorship § Video ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: , , ,

FTRW 2013 – Day 4 – #ftrweek – Unintended FTRW Experiences (aka “Boobs, Walls & Thieves”)

During past Freedom to Read weeks, I’ve noticed that everything starts to look like a Freedom of Expression issue.  (That’s probably a good thing that we should keep in mind year-round anyhow.)  For example, we’re only halfway through the week and I’ve had three distinct experiences that weren’t official FTRW events but which brought forward [...]

Posted 27 February 2013 § Censorship § Humour § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , ,

FTRW 2013 – Day 3 – #ftrweek – “If this mother-fucking stupid fucking song/Offended you/With its filthy fucking language/And fucking disrespect”

Every year during FTRW, I usually like to post one (potentially) offensive song (eg. a song with lots of swearing or controversial lyrics or whatever) because it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Sometimes these songs use swearing to make a point about censorship, sometimes they use swearing for humourous effect and sometimes the song [...]

Posted 26 February 2013 § Censorship § Humour § UK § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

FTRW 2013 – Day 2 – #ftrweek – Freedom of Expression, Censorship & #skndpldr

Given the hash tags I’m using for this post, I suspect there are going to be a couple different audiences for this post – those who are interested in content related to Freedom to Read Week and those who’ve seen the writing I’ve done as Social Media Director for one of the candidates in the [...]

Posted 25 February 2013 § Canada § Censorship § Saskatchewan § Wisdom ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , ,