Not sure if you heard but apparently the Wet & Rainy Olympics are in Canada this year and the opening ceremonies are tonight. The Olympics are once again a lightning rod of controversy and having them on our own doorstep has perhaps brought this home in a way that doesn't happen when they're in Italy […]
Looking for a good date movie? I'm just kidding but this list of “Films That Most Frequently Use The Word 'Fuck'” does remind me of a funny anecdote from my youth. A friend had introduced me to “Reservoir Dogs” soon after it came out on video and I quickly became a Tarantino junkie. When I […]
Another very entertaining Ask.Reddit thread. I heard a good one myself recently – one woman was talking to another woman and said “We're not Catholic, we're Christians.”
The Globe & Mail recently featured this catchy a capella cover of the song “Crazy” rewritten to discuss the woes of the print media world in the Internet age. (H/T to Heather M.)
Very revealing conversation with lots of info about the behind-the-scenes workings of Facebook as well as the site's future plans. Obviously, it's important to keep in mind this is an anonymous interview on the Internet. So who knows how true it is? AllofFacebook.com, a site dedicated to all things Facebook has an analysis but won't […]
Appropriate for the first FFL of 2010 on a day where the mercury dropped to -48 with windchill (aka “hmmm, I did not realise that you could get frostbite there.”)
Then remember this as the second decade of the new millennium begins. This year should be referred to as “twenty-ten”, not “two-thousand ten” (no matter what the Vancouver Olympics are being hyped as.) And yes, I know it's not technically the start of the new decade until next year but just like everyone celebrating […]
Yet another post that seems to have become an annual tradition is a link to Fimoculous, probably the best site for capturing “Best of the Year” lists in a range of categories.
The links are broken but I still have to post them because they sound pretty wild. Apparently Carnegie Melon University developed a couple flash games a couple years ago – one about how to please patrons and one to test a person's skills in shelving under the LC system. (see original MetaFilter post)
This is very cool. A Google Maps mash-up showing the birthplace of every player that's ever played in the NHL. Although there is the expected broad swath through Canada, the northern US, Europe and Russia, I was surprised at how many countries and continents are actually represented. (If you zoom in on the map, you'll […]
