My hometown served as a backdrop for many of the exterior shots of the CBC comedy, “Little Mosque on the Prairie”. (Saskatchewan has a film tax credit that gives incentives for productions to shoot here and increases the benefit if you shoot a certain distance outside our cities. Indian Head is just outside this zone, […]
The title of this site is perhaps a bit misleading, especially for us library types. So I'll let the original poster on MetaFilter take it away… “DeweyMusic makes browsing archive.org's Live Music Archive super easy.”(For anybody who doesn't know about Archive.org, I'd suggest reading its Wikipedia page or watching a talk given by the site's […]
– Just watched “The Reader” and after a slow start, it turned out to be quite an enjoyable film. Plus I don't think it's a spoiler to mention that a helpful prison librarian plays a small part in the movie near the end – always a bonus to see librarians in films and a double-bonus […]
“The P22 Music Text Composition Generator allows any text to be converted into a musical composition. This composition is displayed in musical notation and simultaneously generated as a midi file. The P22 Music Composition Font was proposed in 1997 to the John Cage Trust as an accompaniment to the John Cage text font based on […]
It's Oscar season again and that reminded me of a very hypothetical post I did about a year ago which stands today except for the first link in step three no longer working (but you can go to the second link for much the same effect. Or so I've heard.) On a completely unrelated note, […]
About a year ago, I got a “Claim of Copyright” notice for the montage video I made of photos around Pace's birth using the song “Tippy-Toeing” by Loretta Lynne. When I first read it, I thought the music label (Universal) was saying they were going to take down the video unless I could prove I […]
Last night, we watched Tim Burton's “Big Fish“. I barely remember hearing about this movie when it came out for some unknown reason. I only picked it up now because it was recommended a couple times in a thread I posted on AskMetafilter asking for suggestions of works about fathers and sons (a big theme […]
There are a few similar services out there but JustHearIt is one of the best I've seen for being able to instantly stream pretty much any song you type into it. (I'm picking fairly mainstream stuff for the most part so YMMV.)
A photo tour of unique bookstores around the world, similar to a list of unique libraries I've posted before (but can't find now of course – bad librarian!)
“Consider the Lobster” is one of four (how'd that happen?) books I currently have on the go (the others – “Convergence Culture”, one about contrarian management principles which I can't remember the title of – probably “Contrarian Management”, and buzz book of the moment, “Twilight”.)One of the essays in the first book on that list […]
