AskMetaFilter frowns on ChatFilter questions but they tend to be the most interesting to me. Here's one on “What do you notice?” which has all kinds of answers from “when people are polite” to “clouds” to “typos” (or is that typo's? )
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Posted 04 March 2010
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The Saskatchewan Library & Information Services Consortium (SILS) which will bring together ten separate library systems across the province plus the government agency responsible for library services officially launched this morning at RPL's George Bothwell branch. Four systems are live already (Saskatoon Public Library, Palliser which is based in Moose Jaw, Southeast which is based […]
The Olympics are over and the reactions are all over the place from claims from a perhaps unexpected source (Dave Bidini, not the National Post) that Canada has been changed for the better forever to claims that the debt will weigh down on our citizens for decades. Anyhow, for today's Music Monday, I thought I'd […]
We're all going to church! 😉
I recently bought a gizmo to convert old VHS tapes and other analog signals to a digital format. As I was getting it set-up for the first time, I picked a couple clips I had from around ten years ago – one where I'm featured fairly prominently and one where you get to see my […]
For how demonized some albums are, when you cut it down to just the “bad” parts, it really puts things in perspective. 19 seconds. 42 seconds. 29 seconds. 0 seconds. 10 seconds.(via MetaFilter)
I thought somebody (the CLA Committee on Intellectual Freedom?) released an annual report on book challenges during the past year. I wasn't able to find it but the official site for Freedom to Read does have a list highlighting 100 different books that have been challenged in the past decade. One entry in particular caught […]
It's not book related but nothing says Freedom of Expression like the newest buzz site of the Internet, ChatRoulette. The site is exactly what it says – you hit the site and you see a chat window for yourself and one for a random person somewhere in the world. As soon as you get bored […]
German copyright law grants an author copyright for 70 years after their death. Hitler died in 1945 so that means “Mein Kampf” will enter the public domain in that country in 2015. Or will it? There is a well-known German law banning the dissemination of Nazi ideologies which was put in place after the […]
So yeah…I was trying to think of a good clip to feature for Music Monday now that it's Freedom to Read Week. I thought about posting Elvis' infamous early Milton Berle appearance which led to him only being filmed from the waist up when he later appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show. But that's pretty […]
