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Music Monday – New #NDP Ad: “Would you stand up and walk out on me?” #cndpoli #canpoli #skpoli

The NDP has released an effective new ad that highlights some of Stephen Harper’s “friends” – various criminals, fraudsters and cheaters… That’s pretty bad but this ad only highlights the senators (Mike Duffy, Pamela Wallin) and other insiders (Nigel Wright) at the top of the Conservative party. There have also been some recent revelations that show […]

How Google Could Rig the Election

This is about next year’s American election but could apply equally to the upcoming Canadian election. Our new research leaves little doubt about whether Google has the ability to control voters. In laboratory and online experiments conducted in the United States, we were able to boost the proportion of people who favored any candidate by […]

¶ Posted 23 August 2015 § Canada § Censorship § Internet § News § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, unitedstates

Best iPhone Slow Motion Clips

¶ Posted 11 August 2015 § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool

Google Maps Street View Player – Pike Lake to Outlook

Inspired by the first portion of our route home today – from Pike Lake Provincial Park half an hour south of Saskatoon where we spent the weekend camping on to the Outlook Regional Park where we stopped for lunch – I found a web site that allows you to “drive” between two locations using Google Street View images. […]

¶ Posted 20 July 2015 § Family § MemoryLane § Saskatchewan § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, google, saskatchewan, travel

National Geographic MegaFactories: Coca-Cola

It always boggles my mind that human beings are able to design something so intricate and precise yet massive and overwhelming at the same time…

¶ Posted 15 July 2015 § Jobs § Randomness § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, economics, food, health, science, television

Music Monday – “Unlock my body and move myself to dance/Moving warm liquid, flowing blowing glass”

Went on our inaugural camping trip of the summer this past weekend at the beautiful Echo Lake Provincial Park. Due to a mispronunciation when Pace was little, these fine treats will forever be known as “smorts” in our family! 😉 Until I looked at this photo when we got home, I never noticed that […]

¶ Posted 15 June 2015 § Family § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday, music, saskatchewan

Pace Guest Post: How To Make a Miracle Safe

I couldn’t think of anything to post tonight so I asked Pace if he’d seen anything cool on YouTube lately. This is what he suggested…

¶ Posted 10 June 2015 § Family § Pace § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, food

100 Places of Dance

Humans and technology and creativity = awesome.

¶ Posted 09 June 2015 § Meme § Randomness § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, music, travel

Friday Fun Link – Find Out Which Technologies A Web Site Is Using

BuiltWith.com is a cool site that will allow you to find out what technologies any web site is using. I thought it would just say “WordPress” for my site but turns out it identifies everything from the server software to the hosting company to various plug-ins. Here are the full results for headtale.com.

¶ Posted 29 May 2015 § Blog § FridayFunLink § Internet ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool

Rookie Calgary MLA Is Early Victim of the “Human Search Engine”

An engaging article about the ability of humans, rather than machines (eg. regular Google searches), to track down and then amplify interesting or especially incriminating finds. I have been trying to help introduce the concept of “human search engine” (actually “human flesh search engine” in the original Chinese) to the English-language discourse: it arose a few […]