A young man claims to have set-up a Twitter account for his 81-year old grandpa after telling him that Twitter is a search engine like Google. These are the search terms the Grandpa is (supposedly) entering. I suspect that this will turn out to be a hoax (and I hope so – some of the […]
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Posted 17 May 2011
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An AskReddit question that’s a hard one to read. Make sure you have Kleenex nearby!
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Posted 04 May 2011
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Last Christmas, I did a week-long series of posts exploring the topic of religion in general and my atheism specifically. One of my posts was about how, even though believers will give dozens of reasons why they are religious, from my perspective there were three main reasons I thought people actually were religious – whether […]
Tout is a new social media site that combines elements of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to allow you to do 15-second video status updates. “Some moments in life just can’t be reflected in text. Tout delivers “life as it happens” in full-motion color and sound, as opposed to ‘life as it’s written in 140 characters […]
One of the bad things about not being religious is I don’t have a full and complete understanding of much of what happens within the world of religion and why (What? Most religious folk don’t either? Oh…) Anyhow, luckily I have my own god in the form of Google which provides answers to all of […]
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Posted 21 April 2011
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I recently came across a sub-Reddit called “First World Problems” where Redditors can submit short, pithy examples of the “struggles” they face in their day-to-day lives. The collected submissions are a weird mix of funny (on the surface) and sad (once you realise how many of these things you can relate to!) Here are just […]
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Posted 17 April 2011
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In honour of the Flames’ Jarome Iginla getting his 1000th career point tonight, here’s a really cool site that displays the names of two fairly equal NHL players and allows you to pick which one you think is best. (If you don’t recognize one or both players, it helpfully puts their career stats side-by-side and […]
I was going to do a list of some of the highlights of our trip (and still might) but I just came across a business card for a taxi while sorting the various papers I accumulated during the trip and so I thought I’d focus instead, on one of the singular highlights of our trip. […]
Pace has been counting down the “sleeps” until we go to Cuba on Thursday. Meanwhile his daddy has been counting down “how many days left of standing at the bus stop freezing my butt off?” 😉 We leave Thursday for a week’s vacation and since Cuba is one of the least connected countries in the […]
