Category Archives: Internet

Five Best Visualization Projects of the Year

Coooool, man! 

Friday Fun Link – List Nirvana (Dec 19, 2008)

Fimoculous has been around for a few years, each year collecting more and more “Best of” year-end lists in a number of categories.  The book section is the obvious one of interest but there are many others that will allow you to browse away the hours of your Christmas holidays.(via MetaFilter)

A Few Tech Stories…

Firefox add-on allows pirates to take over AmazonFacebook being used to spread Koobface virus Facebook rolls out “browser within a browser” 75 Bleeding Edge Search Engines to Beat Google…and a lesson in how to make money on the Internet.  Create a site that does nothing but stream other people's content then load up every blank […]

Online Public Domain Children's Literature

“The Baldwin Project seeks to make available online a comprehensive collection of resources for parents and teachers of children. Our focus, initially, is on literature for children that is in the public domain in the United States. This includes all works first published before 1923.”Many of the texts include illustrations from the original book, such […]

Friday Fun Link – First Annual Head Tale Xmas Used Book Exchange (Nov 21, 2008)

I found the Secret Santa site, Elfster, via MetaFilter and thought I'd give it a shot on this blog.  Odds are, if you're reading this blog, you're a book lover who has a living space full of books you'll likely never get around to reading or will never read again.  So here's what I'm proposing: […]

YouTube Surpasses Yahoo! As The Second Most Popular Search Engine – Is YouTube the Next Google?

In library school, we learned that young people today have become visual learners (to the point that their brain patterns are physically different than people in previous generations!)  While people of our parents age learned through books and people of my generation (Gen X) were like the transitional conductor between text and video, them crazy […]

Paging "HeadTale", "Mr. HeadTale" to the Web 2.0

I came up with the moniker “Head Tale” when I had a freelance consulting company doing web site design back in the late 1990's.  I liked that the name connoted a few different things including the luck of a coin flip, telling stories, and my hometown of Indian Head.  (Okay, and I also liked that […]

Some Thoughts on Networking in a Networked Age

I recently came across an article titled “Facebook in a Crowd” in the New York Times magazine.  It was written by Canadian writer, Hal Niedzviecki and details the fact that he has nearly 700 Facebook friends but, when he tried to use Facebook Events to plan a party in Toronto and invited every one on […]

Our First Home Is For Sale

So I'm watching the Calgary Flames game earlier tonight and that inspires me to do something I haven't done in a long time – look at the MLS listings for our old neighbourhood in Calgary.  I'll admit that when we first left Calgary in 2004, I did this search on a WAY too regular basis.  […]

Facebook Weirdness

See if you can follow this…Shea's cousin posted a comment on a photo that someone he knows uploaded to Facebook.    Shea was able to view this photo and the comments that had been made about it even though she is not Facebook friends with the person that originally posted the photo.  (This is a […]