The other day, I was at our local mall and popped into the bookstore. On the shelf, I saw a new title called “The 100 Greatest Canadian Albums of All-Time”. This one caught my eye and was quickly in my hand as I turned to head for the cashier. But then I thought, “Twenty five […]
Yet more follow-up on the “Sarah Palin attempted to ban books” story – this one a bit more legitimate sounding than the last one. “The author of the book Sarah Palin reportedly tried to have removed from her hometown library blasted back Saturday evening, saying the Alaska Governor had a “small-town mind,” was an enemy […]
“When I was very young, my half-sister Jenny died tragically. She was a teenager, and it was the 80's. She left behind a wardrobe of brightly colored clothes, rainbow stickers, life-size paintings, doodles on lined paper, and hundreds of tapes. These constitute most of my memories of her. It's sad for me to look at […]
Besides that cutting edge sense of fashion of course? Both are mainstream artists who have chosen to release their latest works online. Moore's new movie, “Slacker Uprising” will be available for download on September 23. It sounds more like a home movie/travelogue than one of his more full-formed commercial works but this is still pretty […]
There's a difference between lists of “Books I'm Reading” and “Books I Have Out From the Library”. This is because I tend to take out a lot of books that sound interesting or I've heard about via various sources (Internet, magazine articles, friend recommendations, publisher catalogues) but usually only get around to reading a few […]
In undergrad, I went to a speed reading seminar put on by the Psych Students Association. Basically, the instructor said that if you just kept training yourself to read more and more “parts” at a time – words then phrases then sentences then paragraphs then pages, you'd be able to speed read books and other […]
Ever wonder how “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” seems to have access to pretty much any news clip they want? A former technician on the show posts a comment on a PVR blog with some insight into how they do it.(via MetaFilter)
I'm getting so many tabs open in Firefox that it's time for a patented Jason Hammond Link Dump. (That sounds awful. I should come up with a better name for it!)Er, here's the accumulated shit…“The Road” tops EW's list of 25 New Book ClassicsSkip the MBA program and get your personal MBA by reading these […]
Author offers IPO to raise funds to help him write his second novel with 60% of royalties as the reward. The story also contains a link to an oldie but a goodie that I posted last July – “If libraries didn't exist, could you start one from scratch today?”
Okay, I'm back up. Almost made it to the end of the month for the bandwidth reset but once again, my massive popularity is my downfall (er, also my crappy host.) Anyhow, I'll perhaps type a more detailed post about my thoughts on blogs, ISP's, web hosting and the like someday. But for now, […]
