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“Everybody’s talking about bagism”

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 I […]

¶ 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 […]

¶ Posted 24 May 2019 § FridayFunLink § List § Randomness § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, youtube

20 Things Nobody Saw Coming in Avengers: Endgame

The best part of seeing a big tentpole movie on opening weekend is that you can go on the Internet again without fear of seeing SPOILERS:

¶ Posted 28 April 2019 § Censorship § Meme § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, history, movies

Friday Fun Link – Online Apps as 80’s Gadgets

A designer reimagines how various popular web sites would look as 1980’s gadgets.

¶ Posted 26 April 2019 § FridayFunLink § Humour § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, facebook, google, twitter, youtube

A Viral Proposal Video

Did I ever post this? It’s a classic…

¶ Posted 03 April 2019 § Humour § Meme § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, music

List of Flags By Colour Combination (and the Story of One Man Who’s Edited 1/3 of Wikipedia Articles)

This is a pretty interesting Wikipedia article. Also, the news has picked up on the story of one guy who’s apparently edited 1/3 of Wikipedia’s millions of articles and created 35,000 original articles.

¶ Posted 29 January 2019 § Canada § Jobs § List § Technology § UK § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, education, history, unitedstates

.@aoc_dances Is My New Favourite Twitter Account Today

So you may have heard that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had an “embarrassing” video of her dancing in a college video (which, in turn was a remake of an earlier mash-up) highlighted recently but that it didn’t go as well as the anonymous right-wing troll who tweeted it had hoped. Unsurprisingly, instead of embarrassment and scorn, […]