There’s been lots of social media activity this election as expected. Two of my main aggregators of news & viral content are Twitter’s #exln41 hash tag and Reddit’s Canada sub-Reddit. Here are a few things that have caught my eye recently: ShitHarperDid.com (and related hilarious YouTube videos) (MetaFilter) VoteLab – interesting idea but I suspect […]
An election-themed parody of “Like A Boss” by The Lonely Island…
I recently came across a sub-Reddit called “First World Problems” where Redditors can submit short, pithy examples of the “struggles” they face in their day-to-day lives. The collected submissions are a weird mix of funny (on the surface) and sad (once you realise how many of these things you can relate to!) Here are just […]
The quote that gives this post its title comes from Sue Gardner who is Wikipedia’s Executive Director and who Fast Company magazine recently called “The Librarian to the World“. Most of the time, I have a very positive view of Wikipedia – in fact, I’d go so far as to say it’s one of the […]
This clip is pretty cool for all manner of reasons – amazing technology, cutting-edge video editing – combine when an MIT scientist captures the first 90 000 hours of his son’s life on tape to try to understand how language develops.
It’s a rare post that allows me to combine the three pillars of this blog – libraries, technology and politics. But today, the Canadian Library Association released their analysis of the various party platforms, identifying the areas which would be of specific interest or have an impact on libraries. (Now if they’d just included a […]
I had best intentions to do a post about the debate tonight. But I ended up playing in puddles with Pace instead then watching the debate on PVR later while trying to catch up on Twitter posts and do a couple other things as well. I also realised I didn’t do a Music Monday post […]
AskMF has a great list of novels that capture the essence of various countries around the world. (Unfortunately, why do I suspect that even with the wider selection offered by our province-wide SILS consortium, many of these won’t be available anywhere in Saskatchewan?)
Penciled in the Gold Medal Curling Game as my Sunday night’s entertainment. (I also have the PVR set to record “60 Minutes” every week though, in defense of my youth, I haven’t watched a single episode yet!) Spent time before the curling started getting my sump pump up and running. Spent last night playing a […]
Went to a first birthday party in Regina this afternoon… …then on to Indian Head for a birthday for my dad which was also his first…for this year! 😉
