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Monthly Archives February 2008

Friday Fun Link – Misc Book Stuff (Feb 23, 2008)

Borders and Lulu.com have teamed up to create Border's Lifestyle, a new service allowing anyone to design and publish their own book and have it distributed through Borders stores, even including your own book tour and in-store readings. Is it, according to Ben Vershbow of if:book, “bringing vanity publishing to a whole new level of […]

Posted 23 February 2008 § FridayFunLink § Main Page § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Big Beaver

Like many places, Saskatchewan has numerous towns with unique names – for example, Moose Jaw, Elbow, Eyebrow, Climax (which is just down the road from Conquest)!  Even my own hometown of Indian Head has provided the occasional laugh for the less politically correct among us (although the true reason it has that name is no […]

Posted 22 February 2008 § Humour § Main Page § Photo § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (2) °

CookThink – Recipe Web Sites Meets Web 2.0

Find a recipe (with drool-inducing photo) using a search by ingredient, dish, cuisine or mood.  Very cool!Cookthink

Posted 21 February 2008 § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Happy Reverse Gestation Day, Pace!

If you're an English major, you might see some great and deep symbolism in the fact that we took Pace to the womb-like waters of a mineral spa almost exactly nine months to the day after he was born.  Today is his nine-month birthday and it's almost unbelievable how quickly the time has flown – and I […]

Posted 19 February 2008 § Baby § Main Page § Photo ‡ Comments (0) °

The Demographics of Search (and A List of The Internet's Most Popular Sites)

TechCrunch recently had a story about a new study which found that  lower-income people tend to prefer Yahoo! and higher-income people prefer Google.  (Shea's reading over my shoulder and goes “That's funny – I didn't know anyone preferred Yahoo!”)Anyhow, that made me think about the “Everything You Wanted To Know About the Internet (But Were […]

Posted 19 February 2008 § Internet § Library § List § Main Page § Work ‡ Comments (2) °

Willie P. Bennett (1951 – 2008)

Canadian folk music legend, Willie P. Bennett, died of a heart attack on February 15.  He was 56.  I best knew Willie as the sideman for Fred Eaglesmith whose band he played in for over 22 years.  But Willie was also widely known for being part of an early wave of Canadian folk music along […]

Posted 18 February 2008 § Main Page § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged:

Off To The Spa…

We're off to the Moose Jaw Spa for the night…more tomorrow.

Posted 16 February 2008 § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

David Lee Roth on "American Idol"

The vocal-only track of David Lee Roth singing “Running With The Devil” has been making the rounds of the Internets but this is the funniest mash-up I've seen – what if Diamond Dave took his act to the American Idol audition room?  (I have no problem using the “humour” tag on this post but am […]

Posted 16 February 2008 § Humour § Main Page § Meme § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Happy Valenkeg's Day

When I was in undergrad, I was a regular at the Bushwakker Brew Pub for Robbie Burns Night each January.  Every year, they had a draw to go with the celebrations and on one particularly memorable occasion, I happened to win a free keg.  Since the next major holiday after Robbie Burns Night (barring Groundhog […]

Posted 15 February 2008 § Humour § List § Main Page § Photo ‡ Comments (2) °

Automated Genealogy

Just the other day, I was thinking to myself “with all the social networking sites out there, when is somebody going to design an online genealogy site that works in a similar way – you enter the information you know about your family and ancestors and then connect to other family members who have entered […]

Posted 14 February 2008 § Internet § LibrarySchool § Main Page § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) °