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Music Monday – "I'll be very angry/And possibly litigious…with a great dance beat."

I'm no fan of the techmo music but when Stephen Colbert demands that none of his viewers remix the interview after a visit from Lawrence Lessig, that's good enough for me!  (I've got the first one I saw embedded below but there are a few others so far who've taken up the challenge as well.)

Posted 12 January 2009 § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Mortality Movie Weekend

Last night, we watched Tim Burton's “Big Fish“.  I barely remember hearing about this movie when it came out for some unknown reason.  I only picked it up now because it was recommended a couple times in a thread I posted on AskMetafilter asking for suggestions of works about fathers and sons (a big theme […]

Posted 11 January 2009 § PopCulture ‡ Comments (6) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – JustHearIt (Jan 9, 2009)

There are a few similar services out there but JustHearIt is one of the best I've seen for being able to instantly stream pretty much any song you type into it.  (I'm picking fairly mainstream stuff for the most part so YMMV.) 

Posted 10 January 2009 § FridayFunLink § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

A Digital Library, Free to the World

Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, gives a TED talk on his vision of a digitized future…

Posted 09 January 2009 § Library § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Faith in the End Zone

I have my issues with religion but here's a story which portrays religion in an extremely positive light. In fact, when I think of how I would hope religion would inspire people to act, this is getting pretty close to the idea. I guess my only comment/criticism is “why does religion even have to play […]

Posted 08 January 2009 § ‡ Comments (0) °

The Story Behind 20 Muppet Favourites

This site has brief explanations of how many of the most popular Muppet characters came to be.

Posted 07 January 2009 § ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – "Time belongs to me/Time's my secret weapon/My final advantage"

Posted 05 January 2009 § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

RPL 100th Anniversary Celebration Finale

Shea and I were looking for something to get us out of the house after a couple of weeks staying mostly inside due to cold weather, holidays and illness.  I was blanking on something to do until I remembered that today was RPL's 100th Anniversary celebration wrap-up after a year's worth of various celebrations and […]

Posted 05 January 2009 § Library § Work ‡ Comments (0) °

Ottawa Public Library – Some Thoughts of a Non-Librarian

Here's another one of those weird follow-the-leader stories where one thing leads to another which leads to another which brings it all back home.  Or something like that.  I recently had an old college friend find me on Facebook.  I knew he'd graduated as a computer engineer from U of R and had gone to […]

Posted 04 January 2009 § Blog § Library ‡ Comments (2) °

Friday Fun Link – 50 Things We Know Now That We Didn't Know This Time Last Year

An annual list of new developments and findings across the full spectrum of knowledge including some findings most people would probably find counter-intuitive…“12. The use of social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace on company computers leads to increased productivity.”

Posted 03 January 2009 § List ‡ Comments (0) °