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Monthly Archives February 2012

10 Musicians Who Support People Downloading Music (Without Necessarily Paying First)

Not sure how this blog turned into “Piracy Week” but here’s another related article – this time listing 10 musicians (including some pretty famous names) who all support downloading of music to one degree or another.

Posted 09 February 2012 § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

You Will Never Kill Piracy and Piracy Will Never Kill You

Following yesterday’s post about “No Copyright Intended”, here’s another relevant article from Forbes.com (via MetaFilter where, come to think of it, I may have originally got the “No Copyright Intended” link as well.)

Posted 08 February 2012 § PopCulture § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

No Copyright Intended

A good article on the changing understanding of copyright in a non-commercial, remix-focused culture. I mean, when I made my Hawaii montage video, I thought nothing of using a couple songs (a surf tune by the Ventures and a Beach Boys medley) to backdrop my video. I don’t expect to make any money from my […]

Posted 07 February 2012 § Politics § PopCulture § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “I have felt some hard times/In my life/But I don’t want/To feel it anymore.”

I don’t watch David Letterman too often but happened to catch Paul McCartney’s son making his US network TV debut the other night and was impressed by this catchy tune. (And yes, he totally looks like his old man!)

Posted 06 February 2012 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Today Is The Biggest Sporting Day of the Year

I am of course talking about “Scott Gomez Day” in which we will learn if an NHL player making $7 million dollars a year can go a full calendar year without scoring a single goal (since I’m writing this later in the day, we now know the answer – he can!) Luckily, the fans in […]

Posted 05 February 2012 § Humour § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – Hawaii Vacation Montage

Here’s a video montage I made of some of the highlights of our recent trip to Kauai and Maui:

Posted 04 February 2012 § Family § MemoryLane § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , ,

Friday Fun Link – Bookstore After Dark

This was sent around by one of our branch heads (who said he suspects the same thing happens at his location after dark!) Pretty cool!

Posted 03 February 2012 § Library § Video § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Things Saskatchewanians Say

It’s funny ’cause it’s true!

Posted 02 February 2012 § Humour § MemoryLane § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Quora Questions Qaptured

I’ve mentioned Quora a couple times before.  It’s a community-based Q&A site built by two ex-Facebook employees that some project will be bigger than Twitter and Wikipedia. The site lets you follow different topics as well as individual questions.  This approach gives you a pretty high degree of personalization and the weekly e-mail digest of […]

Posted 01 February 2012 § Library § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , , , , , ,