One of Mozart’s lesser known works from his punk classical phase. 😉
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 information.
A guy I went to elementary school with posted this time lapse video of the drive from Yorkton, SK to Regina, SK. Normally about a two hour drive, this video condenses the trip to five minutes (and every time he passes a car will make you feel like you’re on a highway in Mexico for […]
It’s no secret that I’m interested in the role of “fun” – fun at work, fun at home, fun in life – not just because fun is, well, FUN! but because I strongly believe it has a real impact on how people work, live and interact. One timely example comes from the National Family Literacy […]
A great summary of every single type of free online service you (or your library) might be interested in… (via LibrarianInBlack) Best Free Web Stuff for Broke Libraries View more presentations from Sarah Houghton-Jan.
Well, after a week of fairly provocative posts about atheism and religion, I came across this video (thanks to BB on Facebook) and thought I’d post this as a bit of a peace offering to anyone who read my posts and was offended or suddenly thinks I’m a dick – if you didn’t already! 😉 […]
A Google Labs project, the strangely named NGram Viewer allows you to search for various words and see how their usage in books within the Google Books archive has changed over the past 200 year (or any time frame you specify). Examples: Hitler Computer (note the weird blip around 1900?) War Socialism Negro Canada (highest […]
I went to the Ness Creek Festival a few times in the late 1990’s. It’s got many similarities to the more typical folk music festivals you’re probably most familiar with but there’s something about this festival – its origins as a tree planters’ festival in a remote location probably being its most distinguishing feature – […]
DiscoverReads.com is a new site that provides book recommendations based on which books you tell it you already like/have read based on a five star rating system. I spent some time entering a bunch of books that I liked (realising that most of the books I rated ended up getting between 3-5 stars since what’s […]
MapCrunch is a very cool mash-up that’s sort of a cross between Google Street View and ChatRoulette (but with a lot more clicking if you want to see some nudity!) Instead, the site gives you a random shot from Google Street View, either anywhere in the world or narrowed down by specific country or continent. […]
