For anybody who misses the sound of my voice pontificating away on all manner of stuff, I'll be on local community radio with the “Book Chick” tomorrow at 6pm Sask time (5pm Alberta time, 7pm Ontario time) talking about Freedom to Read Week and some of the related issues. You can listen live at: www.cjtr.caI'm […]
If you like riddles, puzzles, jokes and brain teasers, this is the most addictive and/or infuriating quiz I've ever seen. How bad is it? Through repeated trial and error, I got to question 15 before giving up completely (there are 110 questions). Then, when I had the answers, I still couldn't finish it! I'll post […]
Guess who? I'd have guessed the FBI. Or the Library of Congress. Or a private collector with an interest in the area – someone like Larry Flynt. But nope, the biggest collection of banned books is owned by the Catholic Church. Their List of Forbidden Books is an index of books that the Church has […]
A pretty major announcement today from the Sask Government that by May, they will begin providing free wireless in the downtowns of our four largest cities – Saskatoon, Regina, Moose Jaw and Prince Albert – as well as at some of our post-secondary institutions (which is probably a bit redundant since the Universities probably already […]
I briefly thought about liveblogging the Oscars last night but realised that I'd just make the same snarky jokes that everyone else did. So instead, I thought I'd post hypothetical instructions on how you might view some of these films without leaving the comfort of your own home.1. Hypothetically, download and install Azuerus, a bittorrent […]
From my time on the Calgary Freedom to Read Week committee and having planned a student reading at FIMS, I’ve heard quite a few misconceptions about what “Freedom To Read” is about: Here’s what Freedom to Read is not:1. Freedom to Read is not limited to reading. Freedom to Read means you have the right […]
It's Freedom to Read Week and to celebrate, I'm going to do a week's worth of posts on the topic. I know a lot of librarians, writers and others will be talking about this topic so I'm going to try to come up with some unique angles for my posts where possible. But with that […]
Just what the world needs (and what I need too) – another blog!I've set up a blog called The Universal, mainly as a place to link-dump stories and web sites related to the topic of online broadcasting which is a personal interest of mine (remind me to do a post about my summers selling door […]
There are lots of lists of best opening and closing lines/paragraphs of novels. But how about a list of best opening paragraphs from academic titles? (via MetaFilter which, as always, has some good discussion, other suggestions and related links) Here’s a bonus FFL – “Virus“, a fun little Flash game that’s sort of like a […]
I've seen a real boom in the amount of friends I've added on Facebook in the past week or two. I hate to use a buzzword but it really seems like you reach a “tipping point” where you have a big enough circle of friends that someone finding you leads to a better chance of […]
