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Category Archives: Technology

Friday Fun Link – Minus.com

Quinn Dupont was one my classmates in library school who was a constant source of what was the latest and greatest in the technology world. That continues to this day.  He recently posted Minus.com on his Facebook feed – a new site to simplify sharing of files that allows a huge amount of storage and […]

Posted 02 September 2011 § Family § FridayFunLink § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Facebook: All About Privacy?

Most people don’t think of the site this way but Facebook has announced sweeping changes that will put a huge focus on user privacy and control of their information. Reading over the proposed changes, I can’t help but see a huge influence of Google+.  So even if Google’s new social network isn’t thriving as much […]

Posted 23 August 2011 § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun List – Some More Google+ Resources

Anybody still using Google+? 😉  The site definitely seems to have cooled over after the big buzz of its launch (my all-time favourite G+ post was the one Redditor who posted “This site is already dead.  Nobody’s using it anymore.” ONE WEEK after it went live!) Anyhow, I’m still checking it regularly – beyond the […]

Posted 19 August 2011 § FridayFunLink § Library § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) °

What Is Your Favourite “Holy Shit” Fact?

Redditors chime in with their favourite “blow your mind” facts – some serious, some silly.  That one about there being no physical (or metaphysical) difference between the atoms in a living creature and non-living inanimate object makes sense on one level but is also sort of stunning when you think about it.

Posted 18 August 2011 § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Peoplemov.in: Migration Flows Across The World (and The Secret to Canada’s Future Success?)

This is a pretty cool data visualization tool which shows who is moving to and from various countries in the world, top destinations and more. This types into a recent article (which I can’t find now but there are many web sites making the same claim) that Canada needs to push its population to 100 […]

Posted 16 August 2011 § Politics ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Happy Belated Anniversary To Me!

Having been sick for the last couple days, I missed a pretty significant milestone that I meant to blog about. Just over a year ago, I took the leap and moved from the blog I’d been using for four years to a new platform, a new host and a new domain.  On pretty much every […]

Posted 11 August 2011 § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Mlkshk

If you don’t yet have enough social network news feeds in your life and/or if you think a picture’s worth a thousand words, you might be interested in MlkShk, a site that is like many other social networks except that it focuses on the sharing of pictures and graphics instead of words and links.

Posted 05 August 2011 § FridayFunLink § PopCulture § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – MTV News Explains The Internet (in 1995)

An old clip from 1995 of Kurt Loder explaining “the Internet” to the MTV generation has gone viral over the last day or so. This hits home for me because 1995 was when I discovered the Internet as well.  I was nearing the end of my undergrad degree when I ended up applying for (and […]

Posted 29 July 2011 § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – All Space Shuttle Missions In Eight Minutes

Posted 22 July 2011 § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Coupland on McLuhan

Google isn’t making us stupider, it’s simply making us realise that omniscience is actually slightly boring.  

Posted 20 July 2011 § Library ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,