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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: ,

Music Monday – “Please could you stop the noise, I’m trying to get some rest/From all the unborn chicken voices in my head/What’s that, what’s that?”

Pretty cool story of how this video was made… (via MetaFilter)

Posted 18 July 2011 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , ,

But How Will People on G+ Know It’s My Birthday???

Tomorrow’s my birthday and since I’ve been spending so much time with G+ lately (I just added ~200 MetaFilter members to a designated circle tonight) and not so much with Facebook, I’ve been thinking about the biggest differences between the two services. One obvious one is that Facebook is a “social” network which regards individuals […]

Posted 17 July 2011 § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – MetaFilter 12th Anniversary Memories

In addition to the traditional anniversary post which echoes the very first MetaFilter post twelve years ago, this year MetaFilter’s owner decided to solicit user comments on their fondest memories about the site on a very special domain– some of which are funny, some are romantic and some of which are poignant.  (And some of which […]

Posted 15 July 2011 § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Some More Google+ Thoughts

Is Google+ a hit?  Well, I basically haven’t checked Facebook in a week so you tell me! One thing that really helped keep me on G+ was that a Redditor came up with a way for their members to add themselves to a spreadsheet using Google Docs, let anyone import that into Gmail and then […]

Posted 13 July 2011 § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

A Few Thoughts on Google+

At the end of June, Google released Google+, their latest attempt at creating a social networking site to compete with Facebook and Twitter. After the failures of Google Wave and Google Buzz, some saw Google+ as a potential “three strikes and you’re out” last ditch attempt by Google to finally gain traction in  the social […]

Posted 10 July 2011 § ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Kudos to Air Canada

Made it to St. John’s after a 3:30am wake-up call, a 6am departure and two three hour flights – first to Toronto and then another one to St. John’s.  When I fly, it tends to be WestJet or on a charter taking me to sunny climes so this was the first time I’ve been on […]

Posted 30 June 2011 § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

What Really Makes A Vacation Seem Real…

…is when you can look up the long-range forecast for your destination and get a sense of what the weather might be like for your trip.  One week until we’re in St. John’s – hope the sunny weather forecast holds!

Posted 23 June 2011 § Family § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,