Fascinating (although not quite as comprehensive as you’d expect – only people who aren’t logged in to Wikipedia accounts have their IP addresses logged when they make edits. So this visualization only shows a small subset of active Wikipedia editors – mostly made up of those not committed enough to have an account or who are […]
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Friday Fun Link – GeoGuessr
GeoGuessr is a pretty fun online game where it shows you a random location from Google Street View and then you zoom in and click on a world map to guess where you are with points being assigned based on how close you are to the actual location. There are no “rules” per se but […]
Friday Fun Link – 99 Life Hacks To Make Your Life Easier
Lots of cool ideas on this list.
Dying Man’s Wish – Leave $500 Tip on a Pizza Order
I’m not sure if this fits as a May Day story or not but I like the sentiment – people who do tough jobs for very little reward sometimes deserve to be surprised with some over-the-top generosity (although there’s also a flip side argument that if we paid decent wages to our servers, tipping wouldn’t […]
Music Monday – “Everyone is at the mercy of another one’s dreams” (“Angels” by Sam Baker – A Song for Bombing Victims Everywhere)
Sam Baker is an amazing songwriter I discovered while attending the Fred Eaglesmith Charity picnic in Alymer, Ontario in 2006. Part of what makes him so amazing is that he really shouldn’t even be here, having survived a bombing that killed three other people while riding on a train in Peru in 1986. That experience […]
The Funniest Videos on YouTube
Shea and I are having a dress rehearsal for the baby’s arrival (it’s not coming but showed a couple signs it might be so five hours after coming to the hospital to get checked over, we sit awaiting test results.). Shea’s resting so I’m surfing around and came across an /r/askreddit question about the funniest […]
The Universe Is *Very* Big
The distance from Earth to Mars (if the Earth was 100 pixels wide) The Scale of the Universe …and the top rated photos in Reddit’s /r/spaceporn
2013-03-27 – Seven Things In My Brain This Week
Finding the A&W at the Cornwall Centre food court closed for renovations tonight, a co-worker suggested that we should “nationalize the fast food industry.” I helped a visually impaired patron mix up a protein shake the other day. Now *that’s* customer service! 😉 If politics is like sport, losing the leadership race by 44 votes […]
FTRW 2013 – Day 6 – #ftrweek – I’m Going To Hell For This
/r/ImGoingToHellForThis is a sub-Reddit dedicated to “Tasteless “politically incorrect” dark, offensive, & twisted humor of all types is welcome here. Absolutely NOTHING & NOBODY is sacred, taboo, or beyond being joked about.” aka a perfect way to end Freedom to Read Week.
Saturday Snap – Random Thoughts From the Weyburn #skndpldr Debate
Killed two birds with one stone today – coming down to Weyburn for the latest #skndpldr debate and also getting to spend the night with Shea’s folks. Shea and I got to work Ryan’s table at the debate and, as usual, I’ve got a lot of random thoughts from the day… – I’ve been to […]