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Monthly Archives April 2011

Too Many Tabs Tuesday: Special Viral Election Round-Up

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 […]

¶ Posted 19 April 2011 § Politics § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: cool, rant

Music Monday – “Pretend to care/Now feel my hair/Play with kids/Turns into fight/Snowball Fight/Pussy out”

An election-themed parody of “Like A Boss” by The Lonely Island…

¶ Posted 18 April 2011 § MusicMonday § Politics § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

First World Problems

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 […]

¶ Posted 17 April 2011 § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) °

Saturday Snap – “It’s this limitless space; it can be as big as it needs to be. It can actually contain the sum of everything that we know.”

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 […]

¶ Posted 16 April 2011 § Library § Politics § SaturdaySnap § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: rant, wikipedia

Friday Fun Link – MIT Scientist Captures 90 000 Hours of His Son’s Life on Tape, Analyzes for Start of Language

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.

¶ Posted 15 April 2011 § Family § FridayFunLink § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, language, parents

CLA Releases Party Platform Analysis

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 […]

¶ Posted 14 April 2011 § Library § Politics § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: copyright

Music Tuesday – “I know, I know, I know that this is changing/We’ll walk the streets to feel the ground I’m changing”

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 […]

¶ Posted 12 April 2011 § MusicMonday § Politics ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Books That Are Most Representative of Various Countries?

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?)

¶ Posted 11 April 2011 § Library § PopCulture ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: book, unitedstates

Some Recent Signs I’m Becoming An Old Man

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 […]