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Music Monday – “Man, I can’t, I shan’t, formulate an anthem, where the words comprise mnemonics”

Happy (extra special) Pi Day (3/14)! It probably shouldn’t surprise me how many nerdy “Pi” songs there are on YouTube. Here’s one of the most clever I found…

¶ Posted 14 March 2016 § Humour § Meme § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, education, language

Saturday Snap – Fun With Library Displays (US Election Edition)

Sometimes I really enjoy working in a library… 😉

¶ Posted 12 March 2016 § Library § News § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, unitedstates

Friday Fun Link – Books Everyone Should Read

Word cloud created from the “most read books” lists from a variety of libraries, booksellers, book web sites and other sources… (via Reddit)

¶ Posted 11 March 2016 § FridayFunLink § Infographic § Library § List § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, education

Music Monday – “No more lyin’/No more empty talk/Feel the bern/The bern/Feel the heat in our lives”

Pretty self-explanatory… “Feel The Bern” – Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

¶ Posted 07 March 2016 § MusicMonday § News § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, history, music, unitedstates

Friday Fun Link – Inside Out (Without the “Inside” Parts)

Recent Academy Award “Best Animated Feature” winner, Pixar’s “Inside Out” was one of the best movies released last year. Part of the appeal was how it used cartoonish illustrations to show the interplay of emotions within a person’s head. But what happens if you take away the “inside” parts? You still end up with a pretty […]

¶ Posted 04 March 2016 § FridayFunLink § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, movies

Music Monday – “Some other way/There’s got to be another way/We all are scientists who will not be afraid/I’m not saying that there’s no hope for this/And you have tried to change my mind But we all know, our system’s broken/And I, I’ll never vote again”

I’ve had this blog since 2006 but perhaps surprisingly, I’ve never really acknowledged Leap Years even though I’ve been blogging for two of them in 2008 and 2012. So let’s continue that trend by ignoring February 29, 2016 completely in favour of a song inspired by tomorrow’s Super Tuesday vote in the United States… “Vote” […]

¶ Posted 29 February 2016 § MusicMonday § News § Politics § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, unitedstates

Can You Find the Oscar Statue In This Picture?

¶ Posted 28 February 2016 § Randomness § United States ‡ Comments (0) °

FTRW 2016 – Day Seven – Saturday Snap – Freedom to Read in Cuba?

Below are a couple photos I took in Havana during our 2011 trip to Cuba. This was a street vendor stall selling books (which is good!) but most here (and in our hotel’s gift shop or anywhere else we found books) were heavily propagandistic (bad!). Cuba isn’t commercialized with billboards selling blue jeans and soda but in its […]

¶ Posted 27 February 2016 § Canada § Censorship § Library § MemoryLane § Photo § SaturdaySnap § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: allinclusive, book, education, freedomtoreadweek, history, language, saskatchewan

FTRW 2016 – Day Six – Friday Fun Link – A Wide & Varied Selection of Some of the Most Offensive Jokes Ever

Watch this… Then take your pick of these… Did any of the jokes above offend you? If so, watch this (ffwd to 3:20 if the link doesn’t start at the right place for you)… Still offended? Watch this one too…