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Monthly Archives July 2011

Coupland on McLuhan

Google isn’t making us stupider, it’s simply making us realise that omniscience is actually slightly boring.

¶ Posted 20 July 2011 § Library § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, language

1001 Rules For My Unborn Son

Or for my first-born son.

¶ Posted 19 July 2011 § Family ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: parents

Music Monday – “Please could you stop the noise, I’m trying to get some rest/From all the unborn chicken voices in my head/What’s that, what’s that?”

Pretty cool story of how this video was made… (via MetaFilter)

¶ Posted 18 July 2011 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: cool, copyright, metafilter, music

But How Will People on G+ Know It’s My Birthday???

Tomorrow’s my birthday and since I’ve been spending so much time with G+ lately (I just added ~200 MetaFilter members to a designated circle tonight) and not so much with Facebook, I’ve been thinking about the biggest differences between the two services. One obvious one is that Facebook is a “social” network which regards individuals […]

¶ Posted 17 July 2011 § MemoryLane § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: facebook, google, holiday

Saturday Snap – Summer Toes

¶ Posted 16 July 2011 § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: weather

Friday Fun Link – MetaFilter 12th Anniversary Memories

In addition to the traditional anniversary post which echoes the very first MetaFilter post twelve years ago, this year MetaFilter’s owner decided to solicit user comments on their fondest memories about the site on a very special domain– some of which are funny, some are romantic and some of which are poignant. (And some of which […]

¶ Posted 15 July 2011 § MemoryLane § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, history, metafilter

Our Newfoundland Itinerary

I thought it might be nice to post our Newfoundland itinerary with some of the details about what we did, stuff we ate (& drank!), where we ate, and other tips/suggestions for a trip to The Rock – both for our family and friends and for anyone who stumbles across this post looking for some […]

¶ Posted 14 July 2011 § Family § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: holiday, travel

Some More Google+ Thoughts

Is Google+ a hit? Well, I basically haven’t checked Facebook in a week so you tell me! One thing that really helped keep me on G+ was that a Redditor came up with a way for their members to add themselves to a spreadsheet using Google Docs, let anyone import that into Gmail and then […]

¶ Posted 13 July 2011 § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: google

Too Many Tabs Tuesday – Oprah’s Final Show

Oprah Winfrey had her last episode at the end of May and though I wasn’t a regular watcher, I did tune in for this historic episode by a woman that’s had major cultural significance for the last twenty-five years – from becoming the world’s first African-American billionaire (as a woman to boot!) to having a […]