Monthly Archives May 2010

Music Monday – (For Obvious Reasons, I Won't Put a Lyrical Excerpt From This Clip As a Teaser)

Joke or art or both?  (I'm in the “bit of both” category myself.) With helpful introductory and closing commentary, it's definitely worth watching the whole thing though I guarantee you'll feel an incredible urge to clear your throat watching this!     

Betty White on SNL and Six Other Victories of the Internet That Influenced Pop Culture

Former Golden Girl and definitely not-the-typical Saturday Night Live host, Betty White actually *was* the host of last night's show, mainly because of an Internet campaign that started on Facebook.  Here's an article that details some other examples of Internet campaigns affecting pop culture. 

Saturday Snap – Just Kicking It

I haven't done any freelance writing (the kind that pays anyhow!) for quite awhile but through an old high school friend who works in magazine publishing, recently ended up with an assignment to write a profile of a world champion female kick boxer who happens to work in my hometown.  I did the interview at […]

Friday Fun Link – 10 World Changing Ideas (May 6, 2010)

I love lists like this – especially with this one having lots of Canadian content about radical world changing ideas. 

Facebook Doesn't Care About You

Facebook has a long history of implementing features that are counter to what users want and/or treating their users like shit with a general lack of respect.  Lately, Facebook has been giving an even stronger impression than ever before (if that's even possible) that their early appeal as the one social web site which gave […]

The Generational Sweetspot or Why Your Parents Have Such Bad Taste In Names

Interesting theory on why names come in and go out of fashion – it's tied to generational rebellion.  The names of your own generation sound too ordinary, your parents' too boring, your grandparents' too old. But by the time you make it back to your great-grandparents' names, things start to perk up. You've never known […]

Amazon Releases Info on Most Highlighted Kindle Books and Passages

How many times have you been reading a book, come across a great quote and then, unless you're really anal diligent and somehow transcribed it, ended up forgetting all about it?  I've always thought that the tipping point for e-books would be something that easily allowed you to track these quotes as you came across […]

Music Monday – Scallops, Anyone?

I'd never heard of a scalloped fretboard before but apparently it leads to music sounding something like this…

"You Can't Handle The Truth" – Media Bans in the Digital Age

Everybody's probably familiar with the sad story of Tori Stafford, the young girl from Woodstock, Ontario who was abducted and killed last year.  Recently, some new detail has apparently come to light but the judge has imposed a publication ban meaning no Canadian media can cover this aspect of the trial.  The traditional media aren't […]

Saturday Snap – A Boxful of Childhood Memories

I rediscovered this this box in the garage recently and Pace was *very* excited to get so many “new” toys all at once!  For Pace, it's new but for me, this box contains so many childhood memories.  I used to spend hours, not just re-enacting Star Wars & GI Joe scenes but using the figures […]