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Monthly Archives December 2011

Love Actually – Which Couple Actually Stays Together The Longest? (And Other Christmas Traditions)

Entertainment Weekly has a poll on which of the many inter-connected couples in my favourite Christmas movie, “Love, Actually” actually stays together the longest with Jamie and Aurelia (the writer and his assistant) currently with a comfortable lead of 40% of votes cast.  They did independently decide to learn each others’ language so that’s some […]

Posted 21 December 2011 § Family § Humour § MemoryLane § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Top Tech Trends for 2012

I love this time of year for all the “Best of the Year”-type lists that come out.  And one of my absolute favourites of these type of lists are the “Top Tech Trends for the Coming Year” ones. For 2012, a writer for Mashable.com is predicting the following as the big trends: Touch Computing Social […]

Posted 20 December 2011 § Library § Technology § Work ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Music Monday – “I was following the pack/All swallowed in their coats/Their scarves of red/Tied ’round their throats/To keep their little heads/From falling in the snow”

There’s a whole sub-genre of songs that aren’t technically Christmas songs but get identified as such because they mention winter or snow or even Christmas in passing (Joni Mitchell’s “River” being the most famous example.) Below is a recent song that I think is also gaining favour as an non-Christmasy seasonal favourite. This is a […]

Posted 19 December 2011 § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

A Few Last Minute Christmas Links

Need a last minute gift?  Check-out the 100 Highest Rated Gifts on Amazon.com AskMF Suggestions for Sad, Miserable and Melancholy Christmas Songs How an atheist feels during the holidays …and what you get when you ask your smart-ass son to decorate the Christmas tree (via Reddit)

Posted 18 December 2011 § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – Small Santa

“Santa” makes an unannounced visit to deliver presents (toys gathered from his room into one of his pillow cases) to Shea and I:

Posted 17 December 2011 § Family § Humour ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – “Mine is a stupid book!”

Jimmy Kimmel: helping to scar the children of America this Christmas!  (This is pretty cruel and also pretty funny!)

Posted 16 December 2011 § FridayFunLink § Humour § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Google 2011 Zeitgeist – Year in Review

Google has released an amazing video that captures the major highlights of the year (while also acting as a great showcase for their various services, especially Google+.) (via HuffPost)

Posted 15 December 2011 § MemoryLane § Politics § PopCulture § Sad § Technology § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

A Bad Year for Dictators

[Edit: I am a prophet!  Kim Jong Il died two days after I posted this entry!] With the announcement of “The Protester” as Time’s 2011 Person of the Year, it made me realise that its been a bad year for dictators. Osama Bin Laden is gone.  Ghadaffi is gone.  Mubarak is gone.  Vladimir Putin is […]

Posted 14 December 2011 § Politics ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: ,

Wikipedia Going Dark?

To raise awareness about the pending SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) in the United States which would give law enforcement unprecedented powers to crack down on Internet web sites and providers, Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales asked his community for their thoughts (and votes) on making Wikipedia go dark as a protest. The ensuing debate is […]

Posted 13 December 2011 § Politics § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “Cause if it sounds wrong on Christmas/Why does it ever sound right?”

“A War Song on Christmas” by Joseph Gordon-Levitt (yes, the actor.)

Posted 12 December 2011 § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,