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Category Archives: Meme

Friday Fun Link – Love Everybody

A pretty heart-warming video, even if I’ve been trained to be cynical enough about videos like this that at the end I thought it was probably a viral video for Coke! (Turns out it’s a charitable foundation called Love Everybody). (via LyinRPL)  

Posted 16 November 2012 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Politics § Technology § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , ,

Battle of the #skndpldr YouTube Videos

Just before the Sask NDP leadership campaign started, I compared a variety of social media metrics for each of the potential candidates. Now that we’re a couple months into things, I thought I’d revisit this idea but with a twist. Instead of looking up all of the numbers (and how they’ve changed) for each candidate […]

Posted 15 November 2012 § Internet § Politics § Saskatchewan § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – How Much Did It Cost Google To Stream “Gangnam Style” 600 Million Times? Did They Make a Profit?

[Edit: This video is now poised to be the first YouTube clip to reach 1 billion views, amazingly in less than six months!] [Edit2: Some further analysis of the revenue Gangnam created.] “Gangnam Style”, a quirky Korean pop song with a very “uniquely” stylish video is the second most watched clip in the history of […]

Posted 02 November 2012 § FridayFunLink § Internet § PopCulture § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

“Binders Full of Women” – The Musical Version

Also this.

Posted 18 October 2012 § Humour § Politics § PopCulture § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Felix Baumgartner Record-Setting Freefall Skydive

I wasn’t one of the millions watching the record setting freefall  by Felix Baumgartner live today.  But even watching the highlights video below took my breath away. Before you watch that video, here’s some highlights from this guy’s other previous jumps around the world to whet your appetite. Now watch this one.  Humans are truly amazing creatures sometimes…

Posted 14 October 2012 § Sports § Technology § Travel § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , ,

First Snow of the Year

The only version of Hawksley Workman’s “First Snow of the Year” I could find on YouTube right now is copyright controlled so instead, you get a kids’ choir version (which actually adds to the winter/Christmas feel!) One question I haven’t resolved – when I do my annual “first snow of the year” post, what defines […]

Posted 10 October 2012 § Canada § Humour § MemoryLane § Video § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Yet Another Reason Atheism Is A Good Thing

Posted 20 September 2012 § Humour § Photo § SaturdaySnap § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Pace’s Kindergarten Class (Revisited)

Just about five years ago, I did a post called “Pace’s Kindergarten Class” where I listed some of the names being given to the children of many of our friends, relatives, co-workers and so on. At the time, I did bit of speculation about what the names of his classmates might be when he finally […]

Posted 13 September 2012 § Baby § List § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: ,

800 People on the Waiting List for “Fifty Shades of Grey” at Saskatchewan Libraries

Posted 22 August 2012 § Censorship § Humour § Library § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § UK § United States § Video § Work ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: ,

2011 “End of Year Questions” Meme: Cuba Libre, Newfoundland Screech, and Skinny Minnie Me

As promised yesterday, here’s my 2011 “end-of-year question” meme answers.  I’ve done a few slight revisions to the list I’ve used in past years but have also left some of the questions I thought about taking out because I don’t like them or I answer them the same way every year… 1. What did you […]

Posted 31 December 2011 § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (2) °