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Music Monday – “I watch the ripples change their size/But never leave the stream/Of warm impermanence ” @rdio #rdio

“Changes” – David Bowie Rdio, a streaming music service similar to Spotify and Pandora but which is available in Canada (at least without requiring you to use a VPN or other sorcery to appear to be an American), recently released a major upgrade to their user interface. This was the second major change since I’d […]

¶ Posted 15 September 2014 § Internet § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Saturday Snap – Breastfeeding May Prevent Viruses (But Can Still Go Viral)

Shea recently entered a contest on Facebook run by a group who are trying to raise funds to create a breast milk depot in Regina (similar services exist in larger cities such as Calgary and Vancouver.) For the contest, a bunch of local breastfeeding advocates submitted photos of themselves and their babies into one of three […]

¶ Posted 13 September 2014 § Baby § Family § Internet § Library § Meme § Pace § Photo § Politics § Sasha § SaturdaySnap § Shea § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, facebook, health

The Falling Man: The Most Famous Image Most People Haven’t Seen

Originally published in 2011, an article about an infamous photo of a man in mid-flight after jumping from the World Trade Centre also raises some interesting points n how much our world has changed since 2001 and raises some questions on how it might have been different had a similar disaster occurred in 2014? Would the […]

¶ Posted 11 September 2014 § Censorship § Internet § MemoryLane § Photo § PopCulture § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, unitedstates

Friday Fun LInk – “The Coolest” Cooler Breaks Pebble’s Kickstarter Record

The Coolest – a modern cooler integrating all kinds of cool technology and gimzos has unseated Pebble’s over two year long record for highest earning Kickstarter offering, earning $10.7 million to Pebble’s $10.3 million. The Kickstarter has closed now so you can’t get in, even if you wanted to (I did for Pebble but not […]

¶ Posted 29 August 2014 § FridayFunLink § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, economics, travel

22 Pictures That Prove We’re Living In The Future

Pretty amazing stuff!

¶ Posted 10 August 2014 § Internet ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – How A Password Changed My Life

Inspiring way to reinforce messages you want to communicate to yourself.

¶ Posted 25 July 2014 § FridayFunLink ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language

Sure, Let’s Just Close The Libraries and Get Everyone A “Kindle Unlimited” Subscription

I’m seeing lots of discussion (and some hand-wringing) about the threat to libraries after Amazon announces the “Kindle Unlimited” plan which gives you access to 600,000 e-books plus thousands of audiobooks for a Netflix-like $9.99/month subscription. Librarians and other defenders of open access and the public library were quick to respond: I mean, if this […]

¶ Posted 22 July 2014 § Humour § Library § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, economics

Feels Like A Pretty Monumental Day

Shea and I finally dropped our landline and will only be using our smartphones going forward. Some risks and downsides of course but overall, we were basically paying $40/month for calls to and from both sets of parents (which we can still do with our smartphones) and otherwise, 90% of our calls were spammers, surveys, […]