Ellen Degeneres arranged a “spontaneous” selfie with some heavy hitters at the recent Oscar telecast. After tweeting it, it quickly crashed Twitter, became the most re-tweeted photo of all-time eclipsing Obama’s “Four More Years” tweet many times over, and becoming ripe for parody. But it also quickly led to a question about who owned the copyright to […]
Definitely don’t watch this video if you suffer from vertigo…
Today on Facebook, a friend asked if I’d seen this particular flavour of Hammond’s chocolate bars. I’d seen the regular kind (and had bought my mom and dad one as a gift when Sasha was born) but if I’d seen this kind, I don’t know if I’d ever eat another kind of chocolate bar again!
Today saw the opening ceremonies for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Lots has been made about Russia’s anti-gay laws and the statement by the mayor of Sochi that their community of 400,000 people has no gay people which have drawn protests from everyone from the Head of the UN to Google to the Canadian […]
[Have had a couple outages in the last couple days which were noticed by both sets of parents (and tells me I have at least somewhere between two to four readers!) 😉 Anyhow, I’ve been told it may be a conflict with a plug-in, possibly the search engine plug-in I use which has grown to […]
I haven’t had the opportunity to play Cards Against Humanity but have heard enough about it to know that the Library Edition would be especially hilarious, at least for a small subset of people I know! 😉 Here’s a demo of the original game so you can get a sense of how it goes…
On top of the recent news that by being excellent stewards of their country’s oil wealth, each Norway citizen was now a “millionaire”* (as opposed to some oil-rich jurisdictions that weren’t quite so successful in this regard), comes this story about the National Library of Norway finding a way to make copyrighted works available to […]
I meant to post these on New Year’s Day but forgot. But they work equally well as a Friday Fun Link…
I love these (and am particularly sympathetic to the kid who corrected the teacher about a mile being longer than a kilometre and got in trouble for it!) although, as always with the things you read on the Internet, skepticism is important too.
