Year: 2010

Apple iPad Officially Announced

Apple's newest product wasn't a huge secret – the majority of observers predicted some form of tablet computer.  So the speculation mainly centered around what form their tablet

The Invention of Lying – Mini-Review

We watched Ricky Gervais' “The Invention of Lying” tonight and it's a fairly subversive comedy in a thematic area that doesn't get a lot of attention from Hollywood. 

Music Monday – "I'd have given anything/To have my own Pac-man game at home/I used to have to get a ride down to the arcade/Now I've got it on my phone."

I don't listen to as much country music as I did in my smalltown youth but this song caught my ear when I heard it.  I love how

Friday Fun Link – What's the Dumbest Thing You've Ever Heard Somebody Say? (January 22, 2010)

Another very entertaining Ask.Reddit thread.  I heard a good one myself recently – one woman was talking to another woman and said “We're not Catholic, we're Christians.”  

Friday Fun Link – "Why Don't You Read?" (January 22, 2010)

The Globe & Mail recently featured this catchy a capella cover of the song “Crazy” rewritten to discuss the woes of the print media world in the Internet

20 Best Books of the Decade

Yay – finally a best books list where I've actually read most of them!

The Seven Main Plots in All of Literature

An oldie but a goodie from libraryland's own Jessamyn West, here's a list of the seven core plots in literature I found via a recent Reddit post.  I

People in Order by Age

People In Order: 1. Age from James Price on Vimeo. (via Reddit) [Edit: this video is apparently part of a series commissioned by the BBC with the intention

Music Monday – "You were the first girl at school to get breasts/And Martin said you were the best/Oh, the boys all loved ya but I was a mess/I had to work to try to get you undressed."

Pulp's “Different Class” album is a classic, topping many UK “Best of” polls for 1995 in a year when Oasis and Blur were stealing all the headlines.  (Linked

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