Monthly Archives November 2011

Harry Potter Is An Atheist

Okay, the actor who plays him but still…

Saturday Snap – Indoor “Snow” Fun & Games

You may have already seen the picture on Facebook of Pace doing snow angels in the foam pellets he dumped out of his bean bag chair earlier today. Here’s another shot from that memorable moment where Pace appears to be tromping through the “snow”, a “snow fall” that took Shea and I an hour to […]

Friday Fun Link – 11 Sounds Your Kids Have Probably Never Heard

Luckily, through the magic of YouTube, now they can!

Singly – A Site For Your (Online) Life

There have been other sites – FriendFeed is one that immediately pops to mind – that have tried to become a central hub for all of your online activity.  But I don’t know if any have ever tried to pull your online activity into one location as a repository, not just a hub. Now, the […]

Why Isn’t YouTube Canadian?

Did you know that before there was YouTube, there was a similar Canadian site called iCraveTV.  Before there was Google, there was a similar Canadian company called OpenText?  Before there was Facebook, there was a similar Canadian company called Nexopia? Michael Geist exposes Canada’s regulatory environment as a major barrier to Canadian companies having success […]

The Rise & Fall of the Columbia House Record Club — and How We Learned to Steal Music

An article about the decline of mail-order record clubs claims that it was the “12 for a $0.01” record clubs that conditioned consumers to pay little to nothing for music (and though they don’t phrase it this way, the related joy of having a large “download” of music provide (relatively) instant gratification too.) There’s probably […]

Music Monday – Occupy with Aloha

This isn’t a typical Music Monday clip but it’s pretty cool. A Hawaiian slack-key guitar musician named Makana was asked to play at the APEC Summit as background during one of their dinners.  But, being sympathetic to the Occupy Wall Street cause, he wore an “Occupy with Aloha” shirt during his performance and also chose […]

Sappy Sunday – Sometimes Real Life Is Better Than Any CGI Fiction

Guaranteed to blow your mind – a time-lapse video shot by International Space Station astronauts flying over the Earth over a period of two months. Earth | Time Lapse View from Space | Fly Over | Nasa, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo. (via MetaFilter where they’ve solved what the ribbon of light across a […]

Saturday Snap – my iPhone Home Screen

A minor meme going around the social networks right now asks people to post their iPhone’s home screen. I just upgraded to an iPhone 4S last week (the battery was getting worse literally every single day so I finally broke down on the upgrade – even though I had to pay out to evil Rogers […]

Friday Family Link – “They shall not grow old”

No Friday Fun Link today. Instead, as I do every Remembrance Day, I will spend time thinking of my Grandpa Wally who drove a tank in Holland in WWII.  But I’ll also take a broad definition of the term “Remembrance” and choose to spend time remembering my Grandpa Armour who was rejected for service because […]