Shea thought I was joking when I said I wanted to go see MC Hammer play our local summer exhibition here in Regina. I wasn't…but I didn't make it so I guess this clip I found will have to do:I recently blogged about songs I could listen to over and over and “U Can't Touch […]
I'm trying to free up some space on my hard drive (70 GB of music on a 200 GB drive will do that to you) so am looking through my duplicate MP3 files (which make up ~10 GB of that collection). Looking closer, I see that there are a few songs that I have no […]
We all have those songs that are so catchy or that have great lyrics or that we connect with so strongly for other reasons that we could put them on repeat on our music players and just listen to them over and over (in the old days, this same effect was accomplished by taping the […]
Because Cory Doctorow's new novel, “Little Brother” is the first e-book I'm reading on my iPhone (very readable, thank-you very much), I got to see his copyright notice which I'm reproducing here in its entirety because it's such a great summary of how copyright should work in a sane and rational world: THE COPYRIGHT THING […]
A recent Globe & Mail article on Indigo's current practices and strategies provides a lot of ideas about what public libraries will have to consider in an increasingly digital age.
Print-on-demand web site, Lulu.com has a service that helps project how well your book will do based solely on its title. The algorithm was developed exclusively for Lulu by statisticians who studied 50 years' worth of bestseller data encompassing over 700 titles from 1954 to 2004. They compared the attributes of these titles against a […]
If Jeff Bezos was smart, he'd have incorporated a stylus right into the design of the Kindle so authors could “sign” their digital books. (Of course, maybe they feared this would make getting a signed book no more special than getting a package from UPS.)
There's tons of commentary all over the web after the news broke that Michael Jackson died today. I don't have much to add but here's a couple random thoughts….– like probably a million people, “Thriller” was my first “real” record (I'm not counting Mini-Pops and crap like that – er, except I loved the Mini-Pops […]
I haven't looked this forward to a movie since probably “Batman: Dark Knight” which completely lived up to my expectations plus more. I hope this one does the same – one of the best books I've read (and re-read) in the past year or two.
Ask.Reddit has some interesting responses to the question “If you could read one book again for the first time, what would it be?” Hmm, one book? There are a few that pop into my head and it's pretty hard to pick just one. Whenever asked the other impossible-to-answer book question, “What's your favourite book of […]
