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How Popular Are The Various Netflix Original Series?

On the recommendation of a co-worker, Shea and I are working through “The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”, a Netflix original series.  (That link will go to Wikiwand.com – a site I recently discovered that presents Wikipedia pages in a more visually appealing, readable format.) Watching that series led me to this article which discusses how a company that’s […]

Posted 28 April 2015 § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Monica Lewinsky: The Price of Shame

This TED talk has been making the rounds since being posted a week ago and is approaching one million views on YouTube. It’s very interesting for Lewinsky’s observations on being at the epi-centre of our now common social media world where everyone can voice opinions on the news of the day, often reaching huge audiences, […]

Posted 26 March 2015 § Humour § Meme § Politics § Technology § United States § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – O Chips!

A visually impaired Liberian street musician named Weesay makes up a song about chips on the spot using a very unique guitar… After the video goes viral, he is given a real guitar from supporters in the US. Now there’s even an IndieGogo campaign to raise funds to fly him to the US for surgery to […]

Posted 23 March 2015 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Sad § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – Play Cards Against Humanity Online

Fittingly you can play the hugely popular independent party game on a site called Cards Against Originality.

Posted 20 March 2015 § Censorship § FridayFunLink § Humour § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Powerful Reddit Thread Reveals How Poor Get By In America

The Washington Post picked up a recent Reddit thread which asked what do insanely poor people buy that ordinary people know nothing about? Absolutely heartbreaking stories.

Posted 14 January 2015 § Jobs § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Mark Zuckerberg Starts Online Book Club – Is He The Internet Generation’s Oprah?

Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has started an online book club to help facilitate his annual resolution.  Other years, he’s pledged to do everything from study Mandarin to wearing a tie every day to meeting one new person (who doesn’t work for Facebook) each day.  This year, he’s aiming to read at least one book every […]

Posted 04 January 2015 § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

“What If: Serious Scientific Answers to Ridiculous Hypothetical Questions”

Posted 23 December 2014 § PopCulture § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Today in Piracy (er, Grey Market Copyright Activity)

Pirate Bay taken down by Swiss authorities It will likely be up again very soon in a different form and/or with a different URL SaskTel rumoured to begin sending copyright infringement notices to its Internet customers in the new year

Posted 09 December 2014 § Censorship § Saskatchewan § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

SparkleTour.ca #yqr #saskatchewan #yxe #moosejaw #princealbert

[Edit: Yikes! When I posted this, didn’t realize there was a mini-controversy about a local radio station stealing the name and data from the original Sparkletour web site. Bah-humbug!] It’s now less than a month to Christmas. Sparkletour.ca helps you get into the spirit of the season with an ever-growing list of houses worth checking […]

Posted 26 November 2014 § List § Randomness § Saskatchewan § Xmas ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: ,

The Useless Web

Who knew something so useless could be so entertaining? TheUselessWeb.com 

Posted 25 November 2014 § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) °