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Friday Fun Link – What Quote or Line From A Book That Changed Your Life?

A fun question on /r/books. Not sure what my pick would be – maybe “So it goes” from Slaughterhouse Five as a perfect illustration of how shit happens and then we die? Or on a more optimistic note: ““And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think […]

Posted 24 October 2014 § FridayFunLink § Library § List ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

The Next Five Years of Superhero Movies

This infographic excites me greatly…

Posted 21 October 2014 § Infographic ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – Do Not Touch

This site is pretty cool – a band created a crowdsourced music video comprised of people who visited their site following the instructions on screen.  Try it yourself!

Posted 17 October 2014 § FridayFunLink § Meme § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Pirate Joes: A Unique Take on Cross-Border Shopping

A friend in Vancouver posted this story on Facebook mentioning that the story of a local man who’s going across the border, buying hundreds of thousands of dollars from Trader Joe’s (which doesn’t have stores in Canada) then re-selling the goods at his “Pirate Joe’s Store” is apparently a big deal out there. I’m obviously […]

Posted 16 October 2014 § Canada § Jobs § Travel § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

“Instead of begging, he provides book reviews.”

This young man sits on the side of Empire Road in South Africa and instead of begging he provides book reviews. He collects all these books, reads each of them, and provides reviews for people passing by. If you like the review, he will try to sell you the book. This is how he makes […]

Posted 14 October 2014 § Jobs § Photo § Randomness § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Music Monday – “Running through the graveyard/We laughed my friends and I/We swore we’d be together/Until the day we died/Until the day we died”

“Innocent When You Dream” – Tom Waits

Posted 06 October 2014 § MusicMonday § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “Clap along if you feel/Like happiness is the truth”

Libraries are happy places… “Happy” – Pharrell Williams

Posted 29 September 2014 § Humour § Library § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

“I thought that music mattered. But does it bollocks? Not compared to how people matter.”

Here’s a great scene from the highly underrated British movie, “Brassed Off” which I re-watched this afternoon. (Bonus points for this speech also providing a sample for the song “Tubthumping” by anarcho-punk collective, Chumbawamba) This band behind me’ll tell you that that trophy means more to me than owt else in the whole world. But […]

Posted 28 September 2014 § Jobs § Politics § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Music Monday – “Well my name’s John Lee Pettimore/Same as my daddy and his daddy before”

“Copperhead Road” – Steve Earle

Posted 22 September 2014 § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Robin Williams’ Library Riffs

Williams riffing on libraries for the opening of the new San Francisco Public Library in 1999…

Posted 21 September 2014 § Humour § Library § Video ‡ Comments (0) °