Year: 2011

Wisdom Wednesday – Justin Bieber: Canadian Statesman?

No, that post title is not a joke. (Well, mostly not a joke.) The reality is that I’m only slightly ashamed to admit that I find Justin Bieber

“NO, Watson, Ken already said that!”

A generation ago, one of the biggest insurmountable challenges in computing was writing a chess program that could beat the world’s best human player. That eventually happened in

Music Monday – “When the guns are the fence post/The cars are the doghouse/And the telephones no longer ring/What, what of the night/With no electrical light/So what then?”

With apologies to Leonard Cohen, this is easily the sweetest love song about the end of the world ever. Or if that’s not your speed, how about a

Ye Olde Thyme Hockey

Recipe for A Real-Life “Slapshot” Movie Take one goalie fight in a recent game that ended with the New York Islanders’ starter, Rick DiPietro, getting one-punched (and a

Friday Fun Link – Sex on a First Date to Long Term Prospects, A Dating Site Knows All?

Dating site, OKCupid, has a really interesting blog where they draw on their massive data pool from site members profiles and interactions to come up with some revealing

Custom Google Search Engine

I’ve always wanted a search engine that would only return results from the sites I use the most. This morning on Facebook, someone posted a link to a

Too Many Tabs Tuesday

Just a link dump of some of the stuff I’ve got hanging around in my browser… “Evolving English” Exhibit at the British Library (via MF) “You’ll Upset Your

Music Monday – “What so proudly we watched/At the twilight’s last gleaming”

The Superbowl is always one of the most watched TV events of the year so most people probably saw this live yesterday or have heard about it by

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