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The First Cyber Security Election?

Most recent US Presidential elections get tagged as the first “something” – the first TV election, the first Internet election, etc. I think it’s pretty clear that 2016 is the first Cyber-Security election… Early in the campaign, Bernie Sanders’ staff accessed a Democratic National Committee database containing info about the Clinton campaign via a security hole in […]

¶ Posted 10 August 2016 § Censorship § Internet § News § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: history, twitter

Friday Fun Link – The World Wide Web is 25 Years Old, Here Are The 25 Funniest Things To Ever Happen Online

I can’t decide if I should feel special or like a giant nerd that I remember seeing most of these when they went viral.

¶ Posted 05 August 2016 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Internet § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) °

Pokemania!

So you have to be living under a rock to have not heard about the new augmented reality map-based game, Pokemon Go!. I first heard about it when it was all over Reddit, soon after its release in early July. I have to be honest – my first reaction was to ignore it as I thought of […]

¶ Posted 19 July 2016 § Family § Internet § Library § Meme § Pace § Photo § PopCulture § Randomness § Sasha § Saskatchewan § Travel § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, health, reddit, travel

Friday Fun Link – What The World’s Biggest Sites Looked Like At Launch

This is pretty interesting featuring screenshots of the original version of sites such as Google, Yahoo, Amazon, etc. For comparison’s sake, here’s what my very first web page looked like in December 1998 (this isn’t the first page I ever made but the earliest I could find in the Wayback Machine). Crazy to […]

¶ Posted 15 July 2016 § Internet § Jobs § MemoryLane § Randomness § Saskatchewan § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: facebook, google, history, language, twitter, wikipedia

“When you’re born in this world, you’re given a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in the US, you get a front row seat.”

God, I love George Carlin…

¶ Posted 13 July 2016 § Censorship § Humour § Meme § MemoryLane § News § Politics § PopCulture § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, history, philosophy

Friday Fun Link – Another New Social Network For You To Join

Saw this on The Daily Show the other night – Li.st is a new social network by author and actor, BJ Novak. It’s got all the usual social media features you’d expect – Follows and Likes and Trending – so I guess the main thing that sets it apart is the conceit that everything on […]

¶ Posted 13 May 2016 § FridayFunLink § Internet § List § Meme § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language

A Selfie A Day For 8.5 Years

Following yesterday’s post about a guy who created a montage of him singing a single song over five years, here’s a new record holder – one selfie every day for 8.5 years!

¶ Posted 10 May 2016 § Internet § Meme § Randomness § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history

Music Monday – “Time came a-creeping, oh, and time’s a loaded gun/Every road is a ray of light/It goes on, time only can lead you on/Still, it’s such a beautiful night”

A young guy took photos of himself every day for five straight years to create this montage of a Coldplay song. Spoiler alert but since the thumbnail he picked gives it away anyhow, it appears that he came up with a pretty cool way to commemorate his undergrad years… “Life in Technicolour” – Coldplay

¶ Posted 09 May 2016 § Meme § MusicMonday § Randomness § United States § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: cool, education

(Belated) Music Monday – “Abandon all reason/Avoid all eye contact/Do not react/Shoot the messengers”

I forgot to do a Music Monday post yesterday but it worked out okay because this video showed up in my News Feed today! Most people figured a new Radiohead song/album was imminent as Radiohead, already known for very unique albums releases, had done something very unique in the past few days. In our hyper-viral attention […]