Monthly Archives August 2007

How Good Is the CFL This Year?

I turned on the end of the BC-Calgary game on Friday to see a wicked back and forth tussle ending with the new (?) overtime format where the teams play two “mini-games”, each team starting at their opponent's respective 35-yard lines with regular rules in place to as they attempt to score.  The game ended […]

Best Tales: Some of My Favourite Posts

(Last Updated: November 24, 2007) As I write this, I've been blogging for nearly a year a a half on a pretty much daily basis, I've written 662 posts and have received an average of one comment per post (two if you count the fact that I reply to almost every single comment I receive.)  […]

Friday Fun Link – See Who's Editing Wikipedia (August 17, 2007)

Wikipedia allows anonymous edits but it does track the IP of anyone who makes the edit. So a Cal-Tech computer grad student, inspired by news last year that Congress members’ offices had been editing their own entries, and curious whether other organizations were doing anything similar, developed a program to make it much easier to […]

"I Am *Not* Impressed!"

Truth In Number: The Wikipedia Story (Trailer)

This looks pretty wicked…

Google Gets Healthy, Rate My MD

Google is apparently setting up a health site. Google Health Screenshots are now available online.  On a related note, I've talked about RateMyProfessors.com on this blog before but have you seen RateMDs.com which is similar except when somebody gets a 0 rating, that usually means they've killed somebody or otherwise, majorly screwed up.   Kinda […]

Crackbook Musings

Shea was rapidly catching up to me so I've spent the last couple hours ping-ponging from person to person's friend lists on Facebook madly adding people I know (and knew and wish I knew).  Here are some random thoughts from the process…– In “The Tipping Point“, Malcolm Gladwell uses the term “Connector” to define one […]

If It's Saturday, It Must Be A Link Dump (Plus A Bonus Sex Story)

I just had it brought to my attention that Bloglines isn't reading my feed (and hasn't since July 18 – wow, my birthday post helped knock out part of the Internet!).  If you subscribe to this blog via Bloglines, hopefully you've realised this and are checking in directly or reading this via another RSS reader […]

Friday Fun Link – "I Swear" (August 10, 2007)

How Swearing Works BBC’s List of Most Offensive Words (in ranked order) Urban Dictionary – a user-created dictionary of slang including many offensive terms. Great for understanding the latest teen slang. The Great Internet Swearword Project – picking between two choices helps define the “best swear words in the world“. Learn To Swear in any […]

Every Librarian's Secret Fantasy (Er, Not That Kind of Fantasy)

We did a day trip across the border to Williston, North Dakota on Wednesday (it's a long story as to why we had to go mid-week, I'll tell you over a beer sometime) and the highlight for me was finding an old department store that had been converted into a place that sold all kinds […]