One of my most visited sites, Reddit, has a section similar to another of my favourite online stops, Ask Metafilter and it occasionally has really interesting questions and answers – especially since they don't frown on the “ChatFilter” questions like AskMetafilter does.
Sometimes you come across a really cool song on YouTube that you know you'll never get via iTunes or even the P2P filesharing services. That's where Video2MP3.net comes in. Copy the YouTube URL into this site, hit enter and a few minutes later, there's a downloadable link to a 128kbps version of the song you […]
An article detailing results of Canadian internet users' views on file sharing. Nearly 45% of respondents say those who use P2P and file sharing services to download music and movies are “just regular Internet users doing what people should be able to do on the Internet. An additional 27% admit these people are “doing something […]
Our recent trip to Vegas made me think that I should do an entry where I list all of the sites I tend to visit (roughly in order) when you want to find out everything you can about any topic (ie. the “stay up until 4am the night before you leave” kinda topics).* Google* Wikipedia […]
When I first started looking into the NDP leadership race, I went to the now obligatory Facebook fan pages of each of the four leadership candidates. I was a bit shocked to see that Dwain Lingenfelter had almost twice the number of supporters that Ryan Meili had – even though Meili was the much younger […]
I knew taking a blog-holiday to go to Vegas could be a bad idea. I haven't posted for the last couple days which is a gap that I've only had a few times in the history of this blog – even if I miss the odd day, I very rarely miss two in a row. […]
I've mentioned one of the all-time most popular Ask Metafilter threads on this blog before – “What childhood experience most shaped who you are today?” It's a a great one that I go back to with some regularity, and especially now that I have a child of my own. A few months back, I was […]
I started the week talking about a discussion the librarians at RPL were having about the issue of patrons viewing pornography on the public access computers. Although this is an important philosophical discussion, I'm happy to report that (at least as far as I know), patrons' viewing isn't being monitored or censored and no policy […]
I did a “Seven Things You Don't Know About Me” mini-meme but I haven't succumbed to the pressure to do the full “25 Things” meme that's going around. Apparently neither has this guy…And you know a meme has jumped the shark when Time magazine is weighing in with their own snark. So there's no way […]
(with the relevant Mark Zuckerberg apology excerpt in italics…)1. Their launch of Newsfeed in 2006 which they implement, then backtrack then re-implement it with tighter privacy controls available.“We know that many of you are not immediate fans, and have found them [NewsFeed and Mini-NewsFeed] overwhelming and cluttered. Other people are concerned that non-friends can see […]
