Category: PopCulture

A Couple R.E.M. Links

The Pop Songs blog was set-up for the author to do an analysis of every song in the R.E.M. catalogue.  This led to Michael Stipe himself contacting the

Google Maps Navigation, Google Music Search and a Google View of the Internet in Five Years

This will possibly be the end of GPS companies such as Garmin and Tom Tom (their stocks have already plummeted since the announcement):Google also announced that soon, any

Music Monday – UTwo-be

Is there any other link today than the archive of the live U2 concert that was broadcast on YouTube last night?  I haven't seen any final figures yet

An Annual Tradition On This Blog Somewhere Around This Time of Year

Well, definitely last year anyhow and I think back in 2006 too from the look of things.  I'm sure I did this in 2007 too but the post

Friday Fun Link – Wordoid and Readability (Oct 2, 2009)

A double hit for the Friday Fun Link this week…Wordoid is a site that will generate realistic-looking but not-in-the-dictionary words.  (via Christian Bok's Twitter feed) Readability is a

The BBC Big Read

I came across this site from 2003 where the BBC Radio 2 sponsored a contest to pick the UK's 200 best loved novels.  Lots of familiar names on

Happy Banned Book Week

Banned Book Week which is held during the last week of September is the US equivalent of Canada's Freedom to Read Week which is held during the last

Friday Fun Link – iNudge (Sept 25, 2009)

iNudge is a pretty fun web-based music making program.  Or to put it another way, WELCOME TO MY RAVE!!!

A Couple Interesting Ways to Analyse Individual Beatles' Popularity/Contribution Within the Group

Here's a couple very quantitative way to determine which Beatle added more to the group…– assign point values in descending order based on who wrote each of the

Design Your Own Cover For The New Douglas Coupland Book (Which Is A "Generation X" Sequel)

*I'm backdating a few posts to this past weekend to keep up the illusion that I never leave the front of my computer for such things as camping

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