Category: PopCulture

Radiohead – Inexpensive Charity Single and a Free Song Too

Radiohead is no stranger to innovative music practices.  Recently, they've done a couple more…– a one-off charity single, “Harry Patch (In Memory Of), to support the British Legion,

Friday Fun Link – Guess The Famous Novels From Their Opening Lines (August 21, 2009)

I got 12/16 and once I saw the four I missed, realised I probably should've got 16/16.  If you want a hint, mouseover the following text…the site fills

Friday Fun Link – BookSeer (August 14, 2009)

Some of the folks on MetaFilter are reporting bugs but after a few trials (admittedly with fairly well-known and recent books), I had no problems with BookSeer.  It's

The Tipping Point For E-Books?

As I mentioned before, the first book I downloaded to read on my new iPhone is “Little Brother” by Cory Doctorow.  I'm quite enjoying it – both the

Teenage Wasteland: RIP John Hughes

[Edit: A wonderful story I came across detailing the relationship between John Hughes and a teenaged pen pal.] When I'm forced to choose, “Ferris Bueller's Day Off” is

Music Monday – "You talkin' about Hammer/You talkin' about a show"

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

Friday Fun Link – Which Songs Do I Have The Most Copies of On My Computer? (July 31, 2009)

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

Who's Gonna Save Me? Ten Songs I Could Put On Repeat and Listen to Non-Stop

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

Cory Doctorow on Copyright

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

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