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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: economics, saskatchewan

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: holiday, saskatchewan

The Useless Web

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

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

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 […]