Last year, folks online showed the growing power of social media by making a fifteen year old, anti-authority Rage Against the Machine song the UK #1 Christmas Number One. This year, another Internet-based group, Cage Against the Machine, has sprung up with an even better idea for what famous song should be propelled to this […]
Not sure where I came across it but Atdhe.net allows you to watch a variety of programs online and for free. I feel like I’m missing something about this site but at any rate, enjoy it while you can – these types of sites rarely stay around long.
Stealing an idea from yesterday’s list, I want to talk a bit more about the book “One Day” by David Nicholls since I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it all day. Instead of doing a traditional book review though, I thought I’d do a list (big surprise there!) of some of the reasons […]
MusicLink is a new site that gives a simplied way to listen to albums that are available on the popular streaming service, GrooveShark. There are other similar sites out there for streaming music – Last.fm, Pandora (not available in Canada unless you set up a VPN or otherwise get around their IP identification) and Spotify […]
Hard to believe I’ve been on my new blog for what, a month and a half now, and haven’t yet had the opportunity to tag a post with “hockey” yet. (Cue happy smiles from the majority of my readership! :-)) But I happened to be at a meeting tonight when my iPhone made that very […]
Every week (or so), The Perfect Five features five songs – one Hyped, one Covered, one Classic, one Remixed and one Loved. A great place to discover new music.
Joseph Gordon Levitt, child star of “3rd Rock From the Son” and blossoming movie star ranging from indy-hits like “(500) Days of Summer” to this summer’s cerebral blockbuster, “Inception” is also apparently a big Web 2.0, open-source, open-collaboration advocate. Five years ago, he formed an online studio called HitRECord.org where anyone can contribute, remix and […]
The controversial traveling show “Our Bodies” is at Regina's Science Centre right now and they're offering a lecture series each week to go with the topic. This week's subject was “Kids As Couch Potatoes” and that seemed fairly relevant to our lives these days so we decided to go check it out.Some random thoughts on […]
Having a birthday in mid-summer has its advantages. One is that Shea and I have a tradition of going to one of the big summer blockbuster as one of my presents. (Well, usually we do anyhow. But the first year we did a birthday movie, I wanted to go to “Jurassic Park 3” but Shea […]
Google Lit Trips is a pretty cool site where users can submit their own mash-ups combining Google Earth files with the places visited in famous novels. Although it's aimed mostly at teachers looking to teach literature in a different way, this site can be enjoyed by any book lovers.(via MetaFilter)
