…say “Takei” according to Star Trek’s George Takei who is taking on a controversial Tennessee law by suggesting people could use his surname as a replacement for the word “gay”. (via MetaFilter)
We got back from our trip to Calgary last night but after unpacking and doing a few things around the house, I didn’t get around to posting. But I’ve decide to backdate this post on Tuesday to yesterday so I can do a Music Monday post as it connects pretty directly to our trip. We’d […]
For the longest time, “Angry Birds” was the most popular game on the iPhone store and for the longest time, I resisted buying it because ninety-nine cents seemed like a lot to pay for something that looked like a silly kid’s game. 😉 But I finally broke down and bought it and though I don’t […]
An election-themed parody of “Like A Boss” by The Lonely Island…
AskMF has a great list of novels that capture the essence of various countries around the world. (Unfortunately, why do I suspect that even with the wider selection offered by our province-wide SILS consortium, many of these won’t be available anywhere in Saskatchewan?)
In honour of the Flames’ Jarome Iginla getting his 1000th career point tonight, here’s a really cool site that displays the names of two fairly equal NHL players and allows you to pick which one you think is best. (If you don’t recognize one or both players, it helpfully puts their career stats side-by-side and […]
This site is pretty cool – people place a book cover in front of themselves in such a way as to make their body part of the cover (for example, if the cover shows a face, it will appear to be their face. Hmm, maybe instead of explaining it, you should just go look at […]
Last Friday, I wrote about Chat Roulette Love Song which was the extremely successful proof of a guy’s Masters thesis on viral video. Speaking of Friday, another recent viral video that blew up even bigger than Chat Roulette Love Song is the video for “Friday” by Rebecca Black which has gained over 30 million (!) […]
I missed it this year but I think it’s an annual event so maybe I’ll get to the Havana International Book Fair someday?
…Happy St. Patty’s Day! But as someone points out in the comments, “Shane will be drunk temporarily but the interviewer will be a twat forever.” (Though that’s admittedly a pretty broad definition of “temporarily”!) Ah well, he’s always been a gooder, addictions or no.
