Went to the Sask Book Awards tonight and if I'm counting right, it was my 10th anniversary attending the event. (I've gone every year since 1997 except for 2006 when a little side trip to Ontario got in the way. And even that year, as I was wrapping up my time at FIMS, I was […]
I was massively addicted to Tetris when it came out (still have the box and 3 1/2″ floppy I originally bought it on too!) so the game “99 Bricks” caught my attention. “99” Bricks is sort of like a “reverse Tetris” except instead of trying to make the blocks that fall into full lines which […]
This article encompasses two of my previous favoured subjects – libraries and lists – that you don't see on this blog quite as often as you used to.(via MetaFilter)
It's exactly one month to Christmas and if you're still looking for a unique gift for someone that perhaps better captures the spirit of Christmas than socks or sweaters, why not consider a Kiva gift certificate? Kiva is a non-profit organization that facilitates micro-loans to entrepreneurs in developing nations. They have some impressive stats backing […]
Elvis Costello injects a cover of Elvis Presley into his set at Glastonbury making this a double dose of each of the two Elvis's best songs…
I read an article this weekend which stated that YouTube gets 10 hours of new video uploaded to it…per minute! I'm proud to do my part – here are a couple different clips from Pace's first time on skates (well, bob skates anyhow) at public skating tonight. Extra funny – the person who was supposed […]
Saskatchewan is the only province in Canada that doesn't observe daylight saving time and the commonly accepted wisdom here is that the reason for this decision has to do with the fact that the time swap would be hugely disruptive to dairy cows – which apparently don't exist elsewhere in Canada. (Oh, and in […]
I found the Secret Santa site, Elfster, via MetaFilter and thought I'd give it a shot on this blog. Odds are, if you're reading this blog, you're a book lover who has a living space full of books you'll likely never get around to reading or will never read again. So here's what I'm proposing: […]
In library school, we learned that young people today have become visual learners (to the point that their brain patterns are physically different than people in previous generations!) While people of our parents age learned through books and people of my generation (Gen X) were like the transitional conductor between text and video, them crazy […]
This is pretty funny and also somewhat groundbreaking. (I'm sure some other entertainment entity has put everything they own the rights to up on YouTube by now, haven't they?)
