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Too Many Tabs Tuesday

Here are a few things that caught my eye this past week… What are the best new products nobody knows about? (Quora) How We Die – Then and Now: Comparing Causes of Death, 1900 v. 2010 (Infographic) What Radiohead Song Always Moves You To Tears? (Reddit) How Poverty Taxes The Brain (Infographic) Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” […]

Posted 10 June 2014 § Censorship § Infographic § Jobs § Library § List § Politics § Randomness § Sad § Saskatchewan § UK § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , , ,

Music Monday – “Won’t you tell me what you’re thinking of?/Would you be an outlaw for my love?”

“Thirteen” – Big Star  

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11 Arresting Facts About “Orange Is The New Black”

Shea’s and my current favourite show, “Orange Is The New Black” just had its second season released on Netflix this weekend. Unlike traditional broadcast TV shows, viewers the option to watch all new episodes on their own time including, if you choose, the day of their release in a single binge watch session. After a couple […]

Posted 08 June 2014 § Internet § List § Shea § Technology § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “But they don’t give you any choice/’Cause they think that it’s treason/So you had better do as you are told/You better listen to the radio”

A classic SNL musical performance confirms that controversy inevitably becomes commodity… “Radio, Radio” – Elvis Costello

Posted 02 June 2014 § Censorship § Humour § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Friday Fun Link – Porktrack

A vital addition to the resources of the world wide web, Porktrack takes your birth date and tries to calculate back to make a best guess about which song was playing on the night you were conceived. For example…  

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2014 Forbes Billionaire Facts & Figures

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Music Monday – “You know when people change/They gain a piece but they lose one too.”

Jimmy Fallon is getting all the viral love for his Tonight Show clips while David Letterman (who would’ve likely been a viral star if YouTube had been around in his early days) is doing things in a more traditional way and not aiming for online buzz like his younger counterparts – Jimmys Fallon and Kimmel. But […]

Posted 26 May 2014 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: ,

My Book Themed Interview

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 […]

Posted 25 May 2014 § Library § List § Meme § MemoryLane § Politics § Randomness § Sports § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Tell Me About Your Favourite Book (Without Telling Me The Title or Author)q

A fun question/game in Reddit’s r/books sub-reddit.

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Big Changes at MetaFilter

I don’t hang out there nearly as much as I used to (and worse, a lot of my “community web site” time has shifted to <gasp> Reddit!) so it was a bit of a shock to see a librarian colleague post on Facebook about the big changes happening at MetaFilter. Cash-strapped after a recent downturn […]

Posted 21 May 2014 § Family § Internet § Jobs § Library § MemoryLane § Politics § Randomness § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,