Year: 2010

Friday Fun Link – Google Tourist Heat Map (May 28, 2010)

Here's a pretty cool mash-up that takes user-submitted photos to Panoramio and places them onto a Google Map to identify tourist hot-spots worldwide.

My New Most Favourite Library Story of All-Times

A patron, concerned about the possibility of germs on library books, removes the plastic covers then cooks them at 350 for 30 minutes before reading them.  True story. 

Top 40 Sites to Learn New Skills

I suspect there's probably also an Internet site dedicated to teaching people how to make lists of other sites as a way to generate Google AdSense revenue.

Jaime Garcia's "19 for the 19th" Money Bomb

Jaime Garcia has launched a Money Bomb to help fund his campaign for the NDP nomination in Regina Coronation Park.  He's called it “19 for the 19th” and

Saturday Snap – The Cat in the (Head) Set

Pace playing on the children's computer at RPL's Sherwood Village Library earlier today (and you know you're a library nerd when you take the whole family there on

Friday Fun Link – It Don't Mean A Thing, If It Ain't Got That Swing (May 22, 2010)

“The Swinger is a bit of python code that takes any song and makes it swing.  It does this be taking each beat and time-stretching the first half

"Everybody Draw Muhammed" Day

Even if you want to make a point about censorship, you can't be too careful on “Everybody Draw Muhammed” Day…

Happy Third Birthday, Pace!

Stupid YouTube blocked the audio on this stupid video because I used a stupid Oasis song as the backing track.  So there was a bit of a delay

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