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Friday Fun Link – "You Always Double Down on 11" (March 14, 2009)

Apparently they had cameras following me around in Vegas.  Here's a clip from the upcoming documentary…

I'm Published…Sort of

I've mentioned one of the all-time most popular Ask Metafilter threads on this blog before – “What childhood experience most shaped who you are today?”  It's a a

FTRW 2009 – Burn Before Reading: A Hot List of Banned Books

Here's an article about FTRW that appeared in Xtra.ca (“Where Queers Conspire”).  They asked various Canadian literary types and free speech proponents to give their thoughts on some

FTRW 2009 – Margaret Atwood Debates Ducking Dubai While Being Challenged in Canada

What's FTRW without a couple stories about Peggy Atwood…  Her books are currently being challenged in a Toronto school by a parent who says: “…if students repeated some

Happy Birthday Shea!

You don't look a day over 29 (okay, maybe one day over 29! 😀)

Little Mosque on the Prairie & Indian Head, Saskatchewan

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

Friday Fun Link – DeweyMusic (Feb 6, 2009)

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

A Few Mini-Movie Reviews (Avec Tangents)

– 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

Friday Fun Link – Text to Music Generator (January 30, 2009)

“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

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