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Monthly Archives December 2010

“Jason, Do You Have A Half-Baked Theory On Why People Are Religious?” Why, Yes I Do!

I’ve talked to many people over the years about religion and faith and have developed my own personal theory why I think people are religious. I know people will cite all kinds of different reasons for their faith – everything from that feeling of “there has to be something that created this” when you consider […]

Posted 21 December 2010 § Randomness § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (11) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “Look through a faithless eye/Are you afraid to die?”

Atheism week continues here on the Head Tale with today’s Music Monday clip, “Thoughts of a Dying Atheist” by Muse. A quick review of the lyrics could provide a few meanings.  On its surface, iit’s basically about how an atheist must feel when facing death, knowing that their beliefs mean there is nothing afterward – […]

Posted 20 December 2010 § MusicMonday ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , ,

The Evolution of an Atheist

With Christmas falling on a Saturday this year, I’m thinking of doing a full week-long series of posts about Atheism, culminating with my annual snarky tongue-in-cheek humourous atheism-themed post on Christmas Day! 😉 It’s pretty obvious if you read this blog (or just look at some of the categories and keywords I use) that I’m an […]

Posted 19 December 2010 § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (11) ° Tagged: ,

Saturday Snap – Ninja Bowling?

It’s hard to see but this is a clip of Pace playing a bowling game on the Kinect.  (Of course, from his actions, you’d think the game was a Mortal Kombat!)

Posted 18 December 2010 § Family § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Google Books NGram Viewer

A Google Labs project, the strangely named NGram Viewer allows you to search for various words and see how their usage in books within the Google Books archive has changed over the past 200 year (or any time frame you specify). Examples: Hitler Computer (note the weird blip around 1900?) War Socialism Negro Canada (highest […]

Posted 17 December 2010 § FridayFunLink § Technology ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Awesome Google Docs “Presentation” Mode Demo

This slideshow presentation was made only using Google Docs’ “Presentation” mode – no Flash, no animation software, no trickery at all!

Posted 16 December 2010 § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: ,

A World Map Drawn With Facebook Connections

With the announcement of Mark Zuckerberg as Time’s 2010 “Person of the Year”, I thought it would be fitting to post this awesome map that’s been created by a Facebook engineer comprised solely of lines showing the connections between 10 million Facebook users around the world. (Full size image – 4.3 mb but worth it) […]

Posted 15 December 2010 § Technology ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: ,

Winners of 2010 Pimp My BookCart Contest Announced

This year’s winners of the annual “Pimp My Bookcart” contest have been announced. This was the contest’s fifth and final year so people appear to have gone all out with their entries. (On a related note, we briefly considering having a “Pimp My Bookcart” contest as part of our staff conference this year.  Unfortunately, a […]

Posted 14 December 2010 § Library § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “Scrambled Eggs/Oh my baby, how I love your legs”

A famous bit of Beatles trivia is that Paul McCartney woke up one day with the fully formed melody for “Yesterday” running through his head. He didn’t have words so to help remember it, he started singing “Scrambled eggs/Oh my baby, how I love your legs.” After singing the melody for everyone he could find, […]

Posted 13 December 2010 § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

“Imagine for a moment that you know a man who beats his wife.”

Sorry to go to “all WikiLeaks, all the time” lately but this story really interests me for all the implications it has in a number of areas – from world politics to freedom of speech to corporate power to the overarching impact of the Internet in each of those realms. Here’s another editorial which I […]

Posted 12 December 2010 § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: