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Category Archives: Internet

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

Posted 21 July 2014 § Humour § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – 21 Better Facebook Birthday Messages

I’m truly fascinated by the phenomena of Facebook birthday messages. Uh, happy birthday to me!

Posted 18 July 2014 § FridayFunLink § Humour § List § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Media Habits of The Class of 2014

Facebook, YouTube and Instagram.

Posted 22 June 2014 § Infographic § List § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) °

Feels Like A Pretty Monumental Day

Shea and I finally dropped our landline and will only be using our smartphones going forward.  Some risks and downsides of course but overall, we were basically paying $40/month for calls to and from both sets of parents (which we can still do with our smartphones) and otherwise, 90% of our calls were spammers, surveys, […]

Posted 17 June 2014 § Family § Jobs § MemoryLane § Sasha § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

11 Arresting Facts About “Orange Is The New Black”

Shea’s and my current favourite show, “Orange Is The New Black” just had its second season released on Netflix this weekend. Unlike traditional broadcast TV shows, viewers the option to watch all new episodes on their own time including, if you choose, the day of their release in a single binge watch session. After a couple […]

Posted 08 June 2014 § List § PopCulture § Shea § Technology § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Big Changes at MetaFilter

I don’t hang out there nearly as much as I used to (and worse, a lot of my “community web site” time has shifted to <gasp> Reddit!) so it was a bit of a shock to see a librarian colleague post on Facebook about the big changes happening at MetaFilter. Cash-strapped after a recent downturn […]

Posted 21 May 2014 § Family § Jobs § Library § MemoryLane § Politics § PopCulture § Randomness § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – International Space Station HD Live Feed

The International Space Station is now providing a live HD feed which is pretty amazing.

Posted 09 May 2014 § FridayFunLink § Technology § Travel § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “Every four way stop that I approached/Hey, I was on the right/When I drove past your house again/Hey, like I always do/I think about the one thing in my life that didn’t come true”

An entire hour and a half long Fred Eaglesmith concert, taped in Holland? Man, I love the Internet for so many reasons…it eliminates time, distance and provides access to stuff you’d never see otherwise. I can’t imagine what it’ll be like in 5-10 years when literally everything that’s ever been broadcast, everything we can see […]

Posted 14 April 2014 § Humour § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Technology § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,