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Five Hits on National Family Literacy Day
It was National Family Literacy Day today and nothing starts your day off like doing the hokey pokey to tie in to this year’s theme of “Play for Literacy’. Good stuff – I joked with one co-worker that we could do it everyday, sort of the RPL version of the Wal-Mart Cheer. Another co-worker […]
Friday Fun Link – World-o-Meters
A very cool statistical representation of various world statistics. (H/T to Kelly P. on Facebook)
Saskatchewan’s Top Tweeters
Came across this on Twitter and thought I’d pass it along for anyone in Saskatchewan who’s interested in finding some more local contact for their Twitter feed.
How Much Does A Single Search Cost Google?
About a penny.
Saturday Snap – The Nerd Is Strong With This One
Saturday Snap – 1988 Computer Specs, originally uploaded by headtale. My mom was cleaning out some papers at home and found the original spec sheet/packing slip for the first computer our family ever bought in 1988 which is when I was in grade nine. It doesn’t have the actual price mom and dad paid but […]
Friday Fun Link – Best Free Web Stuff For Broke Libraries
A great summary of every single type of free online service you (or your library) might be interested in… (via LibrarianInBlack) Best Free Web Stuff for Broke Libraries View more presentations from Sarah Houghton-Jan.
Two. Periods. After. A. Space.
Guility. Yep. Definitely. Learned it in Typing10 a million years ago. Hard to break a habit like that. (H/T to CP on FB for the link)
Friday Fun Link – Web Services Worth Paying For?
The nature of the Internet is changing and developing constantly and one of the most significant evolutions is the nature of commerce online. Now, there’s always been commerce online and most definitely since the web entered the popular consciousness in the mid to late 1990’s. I remember buying a book from Amazon somewhere around 1997 […]
8 Smears and Misconceptions About WikiLeaks Spread By the Media | | AlterNet
(Trying the “Press This” WordPress bookmarklet…) 8 Smears and Misconceptions About WikiLeaks Spread By the Media | | AlterNet. [Edit: Oh, and here’s a Reddit thread that summarizes, beyond the hype and lies, “what has WikiLeaks actually done?”]