Year: 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

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

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

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

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:

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!)

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

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

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

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