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Category Archives: Technology

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 […]

¶ Posted 27 May 2015 § Censorship § Internet § News § Politics § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, facebook, google, reddit, twitter

Friday Fun Link – Find Out What Your Name Would Be If You Were Born Today

This site uses census data to match your name’s popularity the year you were born (Jason = #3 in 1973) with the same ranked name from this year (Mason = #3 in 2015) as well as some other years as well. For the record… Shea would be Amaya Pace would be Abriel Sasha would be Zara […]

¶ Posted 22 May 2015 § Family § FridayFunLink § Meme § Pace § Sasha § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, language, parents

You Can’t Defend Public Libraries and Oppose File Sharing

Libraries and file-sharing do not differ in principle. The purpose of libraries was – is – to make culture and knowledge available to as many as possible, as efficiently as possible, for free – simply because of the greater socioeconomic benefit of an educated and cultural populace. How is this not file-sharing? Great article that […]

¶ Posted 21 May 2015 § Library § Politics § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, copyright, economics, movies, music, television

Friday Fun Link – How-Old.net

Microsoft recently launched a new site called How-Old.net that went viral due to its use of fancy math algorithms to guess the ages of people in pictures you upload. (Full warning – Shea read some article on Facebook saying the site has fine print that Microsoft obtains rights to re-use your photos or something so […]