Hard to believe it's been five years…where does the time go?
(via Ceci N'est Pas Un Blog – Emily wasn't sure how she felt about getting that same “high school” rating for her blog. I'm just happy I didn't get “remedial junior high” )
Well, that title's probably a bit of an exaggeration but it got your attention, no? I have an add-on in my Firefox called “Tab Mix Plus” which is great – it allows you almost total control of how your tabs operate with the bonus feature of keeping track of the sites you have in open […]
Ross Dawson, a business consultant who tracks different customs, devices, and institutions on what he calls an Extinction Timeline, predicts that libraries will disappear in 2019. He's probably right as far as the function of the library as a civic monument, or as a public repository for books, is concerned. On the other hand, in […]
You know you've been blogging for a long time when you can do “flashback” posts.Here's one from last year about the record-setting take ($5 million plus) of the annual TeleMiracle telethon that year. This year looks like it won't hit that height (they're currently just shy of $3 million so there'd have to be a […]
Author Nicholson Baker takes a look at Wikipedia and includes a critique of the number of articles being deleted for less-than-solid reasons. [Edit to add a link to the article which is a pretty important detail to leave out!]In the fall of 2006, groups of editors went around getting rid of articles on webcomic artists—some […]
This song is one of my favourites and this version by an Australian shadow puppeteer guesting on the David Letterman show is unbelievable. The baby's hand brought tears to my eyes.(via Reddit)
I can hear myself now: “Is it a heart attack of joy or a heart attack of the usual kind?”
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Posted 29 February 2008
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You know it's a hard core list when the Library of Congress only ranks an “honourable mention”. Ranking the World's Best Digital Libraries
Tories plan to withhold funding for 'offensive' productions“Would this committee put money into Juno? It might not want to encourage teen pregnancy. Would the government put money into a film with a dirty title, like Young People Fucking? Would they invest in something like Brokeback Mountain? They might not want to encourage gay cowboys to […]
