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What Are the Similarities and Differences Between Toronto Public Library and Don Cherry?

There have been a couple major media storms recently – Toronto Public Library faced a huge outcry for allowing a controversial speaker to proceed with a presentation in one of their branch meeting rooms and Sportsnet faced a huge outcry after longtime hockey icon, Don Cherry, made controversial remarks where he accused recent immigrants of […]

Friday Fun Link – Regina (and area) Fowl/Fall Supper Guide

Are fowl suppers a Saskatchewan tradition or a Prairie tradition or a Canadian tradition? At any rate, my friend Deron, has once again posted his annual Fowl/Fall Super Guide. I’m hungry already!

¶ Posted 04 October 2019 § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane § Randomness § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, food, holiday, saskatchewan

The Changing Nature of Freedom of Expression: Banning Books Is Anachronistic But Challenges Remain

Good article from The National Post about the changing nature of the debate around Freedom of Expression. What remains is that challenges still come from all sides of the political spectrum. …the bulk of work on freedom of expression is shifting from people who fruitlessly complain about books to attacks on journalists and bloggers. Also […]

¶ Posted 02 October 2019 § Canada § Censorship § Library § LibrarySchool § News § Politics § PopCulture § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, freedomtoreadweek, language, philosophy

Friday Fun Link – Quick Draw With Google

This is a pretty fun game (especially if you don’t think about the implications of millions of humans training Google’s AI systems so tech companies can control us more!) 😉

¶ Posted 13 September 2019 § FridayFunLink § Meme § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, economics, education, language

The Only Connection Between 9/11 and Christmas?

9/11 might be the favourite day of the year for the conspiracy-minded posters on r/conspiracy. 🙂

¶ Posted 11 September 2019 § Censorship § MemoryLane § News § Politics § PopCulture § Sad § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, history, holiday, science, unitedstates

Eating With The World’s Most Isolated Tribe

We live in a pretty amazing world where I can use some of the world’s most advanced technology – the Internet, YouTube, wifi – to watch a video clip about one of the world’s most primitive societies.

¶ Posted 28 August 2019 § Technology § Travel § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: food, health, history, language, travel, youtube

“Everybody’s talking about bagism”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry9honCV3qc Shea and I went to “Yesterday” as my annual birthday movie tonight and it got me thinking about how long I’ve been a Beatles fan (hint: since I was a kid but it blossomed in university) and how long I’ve been using computers (hint: since I was a kid but it blossomed when […]

¶ Posted 16 July 2019 § Family § MemoryLane § PopCulture § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: beatles, history

Friday Fun Link – A People Map of the Most Wikipedia Searched Person in Each Major City in the US

Who is the most searched resident of each city in the US on Wikipedia?

¶ Posted 31 May 2019 § FridayFunLink § Infographic § List § News § PopCulture § Technology § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, unitedstates, wikipedia

“I should go ahead and mention right now that he is a lymphoma survivor.” Some Thoughts on Civility

One of the ongoing debates in the world right now – in online discussion, in politics and in our personal lives – is what the role of civility is and how it’s perhaps become less important than in the past. I think one change is that people used to be civil in a reciprocal manner […]

¶ Posted 28 May 2019 § Censorship § Family § Politics § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, education, language

Friday Fun Link – defaultfile.name YouTube Randomizer

This site, defaultfile.name, is fascinating – it looks through YouTube for random files that have been uploaded without the default filename given by the camera or smartphone (DNSC209, MVI753, IMG9903, etc.) being changed to something more descriptive and searchable. For that reason, most are fairly low view count videos, often quite short, and provide all […]