“In 1994, over 70 percent of total fiction sales were accounted for by a mere five authors.” Just in time for the biggest book release in the history of the universe, a contrarian view from the Washington Post. It’s out tonight at midnight but rumours of leaks have been happening for the past few days. […]
34 – age I turned today 25 – age someone recently told me I was really at 4 – Number of gifts Pace got from Shea today 2 – Number of gifts I got from Shea today2 – Number of times Pace almost peed on me1 – Number of times Pace peed in his own […]
I have absolutely nothing to say right now so instead, will point you to Flickr where Shea has uploaded a few more photos of the Pace-man. The realisation has hit that the sole purpose of having a child is to dress them up in embarrassing outfits or photograph them in embarrassing situations. Here's one where […]
“Imagine a library that collected all the world’s information about all the world’s books and made it available for everyone to view and update. We’re building that library.”(via MetaFilter)Jessamyn West blogged about the site on Librarian.net and suggests checking the “About the Librarianship” page which says:“For the first time, we'll have an open, public, curated, […]
You are invited to A Post-Work Gathering For Regina and Area LibrariansFriday, July 20, 2007 from 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm To be held at Cathedral Village Free House (2062 Albert Street) — your hosts are Jason Hammond and Julie McKennaThis is a chance for any librarians in Regina and area to get together for […]
MICHAEL MOORE OFFERS TO REIMBURSE THE UNITED NURSES OF ALBERTA FOR THEIR SUPPORT OF HIS HIGHLY ACCLAIMED FILM SiCKO CANADIAN DISTRIBUTOR APPLAUDS MICHAEL MOORE'S ACTION AND OFFERS FREE ADMISSION TO ALL NURSES ACROSS CANADA STARTING MONDAY, JULY 16TH TORONTO, ONTARIO – July 12, 2007 – In an effort to encourage members of the public to […]
Okay, we're not quite there yet (or you aren't if you're my age – I suspect 18-24 year olds are) but it feels like we're heading in that direction. E-mail was the original “killer app” of the Internet. It was the one service that everybody online had since you got issued an e-mail address as […]
The author of the popular Freakonomics book looks at the question, “If public libraries didn’t exist, could you start one today?” “But here’s the point I’m (finally) getting to: if there was no such thing today as the public library and someone like Bill Gates proposed to establish them in cities and towns across the […]
I've had four speeding tickets in my life… #1 – I was driving home late at a night from a summer job during college after a week working in northern Saskatchewan. Anxious to get home, I was going pretty fast when an RCMP officer passed me just outside a town on the other site of […]
As opposed to the last time I did this, this avatar is officially sanctioned. (Oh, and the Simpsons movie better not suck – even though I have an inordinate amount of fear that it will!)Inspired by Kristina O, Michelle L and various others who changed their Facebook profile photos to 2-D form (which I'm told […]
