Year: 2011

Reddit, Free Speech and “Child Porn”

It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of the site, Reddit. In fact, I’d go so far as to say it’s currently my favourite site on the

Music Monday – “You know she’s there waiting/Just anticipating/The things you’ll never ever ever possess.”

Love those A/V Club covers… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqw_XxkTRLk …although in this case, Peter Bjorn and John don’t hold a candle to the original… …or even to my own personal favourite

Thanksgiving Genealogy

My mom’s taking a genealogy class so we spent quite a bit of time this weekend looking through her class notes, different web sites and reviewing the information

Saturday Snap – Saskatchewan Legislature

Premier Wall will be officially dropping the writ for Saskatchewan’s next provincial election this weekend but due to legislation his party brought in, we already know the date.

Friday Fun Link – Horse Race Politics

Many bemoan the coverage of politics that treats it more like sports than something with real-world purpose and implications. The good folks at Slate magazine have gone one

Is There A Steve Jobs of Libraries?

One of the comments in the long MetaFilter thread about Steve Jobs’ passing stuck out for me: He made people try their hardest, and that’s the most important

Steve Jobs: 1955-2011

Just heard the news and, as with Jack Layton’s passing, the death of the co-founder of Apple was probably not a complete surprise but still pretty shocking. In

Cross-Linguistic Onomatopoeia

A discussion of how the song “Head & Shoulders, Knees & Toes” is sung with a different melody in Canada then in other parts of the world leads

Music Monday – “Come on hold my hand/I want to contact the living/Not sure I understand/This role I’ve been given”

Shea almost canceled our wedding when this song was playing non-stop on Mexican MTV in the lead-up to our big day. I’m not sure who was able to

Bright Futures Indeed!

Earlier today, Shea, Pace and I went to the grand opening of the joint campaign office for three of the NDP candidates in next month’s provincial election –

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