Reading MetaFilter tonight, I came across Gives Me Hope, a site that provides all kinds of “something in my eye” anecdotes like the one I related from Noah Evanchuk yesterday. Here's the post from Metafilter: “GivesMeHope (RSS), a site for those “completely exhausted by the negativity of the mainstream media.” Modeled after their polar opposite, […]
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It's not something I spend a great deal of time thinking about but I do feel fortunate that I belong to a profession that's consistently ranked as one of the most valued in society (librarians and firefighters usually battle for the “most important public service” title when citizens in various cities are surveyed each year.) […]
Here's a couple very quantitative way to determine which Beatle added more to the group…– assign point values in descending order based on who wrote each of the Top 50 Most Played Beatles Songs on last.fm (Paul has a slight edge over John)– using the Beatles #1 album, count who wrote more of their #1 […]
You could pitch this as a movie but you might get told it's too unrealistic – a pint-sized hockey player who's short on stature but big on heart overcomes incredible odds to not only make the Calgary Flames but become a prolific scorer and team leader helping the Flames win the team's only Stanley Cup […]
Facebook has stolen added a new feature, inspired by Twitter, where you can tag another user by using the “@” sign and then typing the person's name in your status updates. When I was trying it out to tag Shea in a post, I ended with a rhetorical “Is this a Twitter killer?” A few […]
A few months back, I was speaking to someone who'd done a bunch of demographic research on Regina. The topic of wealthy areas of the city came up and I said that I suspected one of our suburban branches, with a high percentage of doctors, lawyers, University professors and other white collar professionals living nearby, […]
[Edit: upgrading iTunes seemed to have brought back the App Store as far as I can tell.] …did the categories section of the App store disappear for you over the weekend? Trying to troubleshoot when this happened for me, I found one article that seemed to say that Apple took out the categories option with […]
MacLean's has an article about Google Voice and the potential massive impacts it could have on the cellular industry (which is likely a big part of the reason it wasn't allowed in the iPhone App Story – official story about it duplicating existing iPhone features notwithstanding.)“Google Voice’s primary offering to consumers—a single, unchanging phone number—seems […]
In my ongoing quest to give a theme to every single day of the week on this blog, I've decided to start the “Saturday Snap” recurring feature to highlight a photo I've taken – usually from the past seven days but occasionally something from the archives or maybe even a cool photo I find online. […]
