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Category Archives: Internet

Happy Singles Day!

Originally started by Chinese university students as an anti-Valentines Day where single people were encouraged to buy themselves gifts, “Singles Day” on November 11 (11/11) has exploded in popularity over the past five years to become China’s equivalent of Black Friday with their Amazon/eBay clone, Alibaba, leading the charge. I heard about it last year […]

¶ Posted 11 November 2014 § Meme § PopCulture § Randomness § Technology § Travel § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – “I watch the ripples change their size/But never leave the stream/Of warm impermanence ” @rdio #rdio

“Changes” – David Bowie Rdio, a streaming music service similar to Spotify and Pandora but which is available in Canada (at least without requiring you to use a VPN or other sorcery to appear to be an American), recently released a major upgrade to their user interface. This was the second major change since I’d […]

¶ Posted 15 September 2014 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Saturday Snap – Breastfeeding May Prevent Viruses (But Can Still Go Viral)

Shea recently entered a contest on Facebook run by a group who are trying to raise funds to create a breast milk depot in Regina (similar services exist in larger cities such as Calgary and Vancouver.) For the contest, a bunch of local breastfeeding advocates submitted photos of themselves and their babies into one of three […]

¶ Posted 13 September 2014 § Baby § Family § Library § Meme § Pace § Photo § Politics § Sasha § SaturdaySnap § Shea § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, facebook, health

The Falling Man: The Most Famous Image Most People Haven’t Seen

Originally published in 2011, an article about an infamous photo of a man in mid-flight after jumping from the World Trade Centre also raises some interesting points n how much our world has changed since 2001 and raises some questions on how it might have been different had a similar disaster occurred in 2014? Would the […]

¶ Posted 11 September 2014 § Censorship § MemoryLane § Photo § PopCulture § Technology § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, unitedstates

What Happens If You “Like” Every Single Thing You See on Facebook For A Couple Days?

A Wired writer finds out (and the results aren’t pretty!)

¶ Posted 28 August 2014 § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: facebook, science

VPL Strikes Blow For Freedom of Expression!

Vancouver Public Library has recently made news in libraryland with a controversial revised Internet Access Policy that added a restriction specifically addressing patrons viewing “explicit sexual images”. And I, for one, am glad to see that Vancouver Public Library has taken this important step! For far too long, libraries have allowed patrons to view any and […]

¶ Posted 24 August 2014 § Censorship § Humour § Library ‡ Comments (2) °

22 Pictures That Prove We’re Living In The Future

Pretty amazing stuff!

¶ Posted 10 August 2014 § Technology ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – “Say you got an “I”,”T” Followed by apostrophe “s”/Now what does that mean?/You would not use “it’s” in this case/As a possessive/It’s a contraction”

“Weird Al” Yankovic is pretty much the perfect musician for the Internet age – nerdy mash-up specialist who is no stranger to controversy. So the fact that his latest album has a song about Internet grammar is pretty much perfection (and guaranteed to go viral)… “Word Crimes” – “Weird Al” Yankovic