I saw an interview with author, Joshua Ferris, in a recent Entertainment Weekly and thought the series of book-themed questions they asked would be fun to answer for myself… Your Favourite Book As a Child “Child” usually means someone quite young but honestly, the first book to come to mind when I read this question […]
Hard to believe it’s been a year since a very important milestone in my life. Yes, it’s exactly one year ago today that I got my Most Liked post ever on Facebook! (I posted a picture of Sasha immediately after she was born in the delivery room. Okay, not *immediately* after she was born!) When […]
Saskatchewan Legislature Re-created in Minecraft So today, Majong, the company formed around the hugely popular Minecraft video game, released the TU14 update for Minecraft on XBox360. If you’ve been living under a rock (or at least without an obsessed six year old in your house!), Minecraft is a “sandbox” game – basically, a game that […]
I’m probably one of the worst people for loving all of those “50 Books To Read Before You Die”, “10 Books Every Child Should Read”, “17 Books for a Summer Holiday” lists. I mean, they *do* comprise two of my most favouritist things in the world – books and lists. However, I think this list […]
Ellen Degeneres arranged a “spontaneous” selfie with some heavy hitters at the recent Oscar telecast. After tweeting it, it quickly crashed Twitter, became the most re-tweeted photo of all-time eclipsing Obama’s “Four More Years” tweet many times over, and becoming ripe for parody. But it also quickly led to a question about who owned the copyright to […]
Today, Reddit had an official blog post about their “Gold” program where you can either buy an annual membership or “gild” someone with gold for one-off comments and now posts. Gold members (like myself) get added benefits on the site including the ability to save comments and as part of their blog post, they listed […]
A great list from Buzzfeed summarizing some of many Canada’s successes – in competition and beyond – at the Winter Olympics.
Today saw the opening ceremonies for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Lots has been made about Russia’s anti-gay laws and the statement by the mayor of Sochi that their community of 400,000 people has no gay people which have drawn protests from everyone from the Head of the UN to Google to the Canadian […]
More and more companies, whether they actually buy Super Bowl ad time or not, are releasing their ads early, starting social media campaigns or otherwise trying related techniques to get as much attention as possible for their product. One of the best viral videos that wasn’t actually a Super Bowl ad came from Newcastle Brown […]
