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The Economic Impacts of Covid-19
This is a British article but many of the findings are going to apply for countries around the world – from increased unemployment to reduced airline traffic to positive environmental impacts and more.
Saturday Snap – Covid Helping Us To Connect With Long Lost Friends
Shea and I have tried to do regular video chats with various friends and family throughout this pandemic but last night, we decided to do something a bit different – instead of a sustained conversation with one person or group, we decided to try “chat roulette” where we’d message random people on our Facebook friend […]
Friday Fun Link – COVID Spread (January 1 – April 26)
Not sure if this is a “fun” link per se but interesting to see how the virus moved from China then quickly spread across the whole world creating our current unusual reality…
Friday Fun Link – British vs. Canadian English
I still tell the story of the woman I traveled to England with for a University exchange in 1995 meeting a group of people in a pub and saying she hadn’t changed her pants in days. Turns out trousers are pants in England and pants are underwear! 🙂
Why Is OK Computer So Good?
My generation’s “Sgt. Pepper’s”?
Music Monday – “It’s over/You don’t need to tell me/I hope you’re with someone who makes you feel/Safe in your sleep, being tonight/I won’t kill myself trying to stay in your life/I’ve got no distance left to run.”
“No Distance Left To Run” – Blur
Sorry, @officialRPL, I have a new favourite “RPL”
Radiohead has launched the Radiohead Public Library – a massive online archive of streaming albums, music & concert videos, rarities, merchandise and much more. Here’s a list of ten things that are getting fans very excited about this new site. And just for the heck of it, something not on the RPL site but instead, […]
Friday Fun Link – KISS Does The Beatles
Found this flitting around YouTube – is there any band that doesn’t love The Beatles? (Okay, Michael Stipe famously dissed The Beatles as “elevator music” but I think he later admitted he only meant they weren’t the music he listened to but often heard in the background.)
This thread about working in a library went viral because it’s funny, passionate, angry and utterly lovely
https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2019/05/16/working-library-thread-viral-passionate-angry-funny-and-lovely/2/