AskMetaFilter has a page which lists their all-time most “Favourited” questions (warning: do not click unless you have a LOT of time to waste!) Interesting that the most favourited question – “What Book Is The Single Best Introduction To Your Field For The Layperson” – has nearly twice as many favourites (~1141) than the next […]
Shea posted a hilarious anti-breastfeeding article pro-Nestle Fake Milk Formula to her Facebook status with the usual heavy response to anytime this type of topic comes up – from both pro-breastfeeding moms and those who weren't able to or aren't as worked up about the prevalance of formula in our society. It made me think, […]
I came across this site from 2003 where the BBC Radio 2 sponsored a contest to pick the UK's 200 best loved novels. Lots of familiar names on the Top 21 and I wonder if this contest was the origin of the “Canada Reads”-type events that have proliferated where one community/region/nation chooses a single book […]
Today is the one year anniversary of my starting at RPL (an occasion so auspicious, I commemorated it by posting a link to an album of mellowed-out cover versions of the Footloose soundtrack on this day one year ago!). Still, this last year has gone in a flash and it's hard to believe it's been […]
A web site called BachelorsDegreesOnline.com has posted a list of 100 Best Blogs for Librarians of the Future and guess who's #100? Yep, that's me! I guess if I'm not #1, #100 isn't a bad spot to be in terms of where you'll get noticed – especially in a list that long. They gave me […]
Living in the age of e-mail, Facebook and pre-authorized payment, I had a moment with Pace today that is a rarity in today's world. When I bought my iPhone, I didn't think to sign up for pre-authorized payment so I had to write out a cheque and walk a couple blocks to the nearest mailbox […]
I'm trying to free up some space on my hard drive (70 GB of music on a 200 GB drive will do that to you) so am looking through my duplicate MP3 files (which make up ~10 GB of that collection). Looking closer, I see that there are a few songs that I have no […]
We all have those songs that are so catchy or that have great lyrics or that we connect with so strongly for other reasons that we could put them on repeat on our music players and just listen to them over and over (in the old days, this same effect was accomplished by taping the […]
I'll still thinking about a post with my thoughts on some of the things the Meili campaign could've done differently to perhaps put themselves over the top. But until that comes clearer, I thought I'd do a post looking at things in the bigger picture. I never get a good response when I call for […]
I've mentioned in passing one of my first experiences when I chose to volunteer with Ryan's campaign. I went to a planning meeting for his volunteers a few months ago. When it was time to ask questions, I had a pretty important one.“What's Ryan's big idea? What's his Medicare?”Dion Tchorzewski looked at me and said, […]
