Category: United States

“Remember, Remember the Fifth of November” (This Isn’t A Movie Anymore; It’s A Warning)

Do you know the connection between Guy Fawkes, the movie “V for Vendetta” and the Anonymous movement? Or that today, was the Million Mask March at locations around

I Know We Get To See Hedley At The Grey Cup in Regina…

…but I’d much prefer a half-time show like this one: Here’s a Today show report on how they do it (hint: there’s (even) an app for that!) (Oh,

Neil Gaiman’s Love Letter to Libraries

The Guardian recently published an edited version of Neil Gaiman‘s lecture for the Reading Agency. The Reading Agency’s annual lecture series was initiated in 2012 as a platform

Muffled Voices: Five Famous Authors of Banned Books

  This week is Banned Books Week in the US (as opposed to last week of February in Canada for some reason.) Oh well – I’ll happily celebrate

September 11, 2001 as it happened on CNN – 8:40am to 10:11am

I’m pretty sure I have most of this on a VHS tape somewhere but nice to have it online for easy access and archival purposes…

A Couple Reasons I Really Like Doug Stanhope

Doug Stanhope is a fucking awesome comedian who is cool with people torrenting his stuff…   And “his stuff” includes brilliant material like this… And this…

Friday Fun Link – 18 National Flags Made From Each Country’s Most Representative Foods

Boo – no Canada in this list of national flags made from 18 countries’ most representative foods – how easy would it be to make the red stripes

What Will Libraries Look Like in Twenty Years?

Ended up having a conversation with someone at the library today and the question of what the library is going to look like in twenty years came up.

Music Monday – “It’s our party we can do what we want/It’s our party we can say what we want.”

So everybody’s talking about the raunchy Miley Cyrus performance last night at the MTV Video Music Awards (including perhaps the weirdest MetaFilter thread ever where a discussion of

Music Monday – “And that Holy Water, that you soak in is then poisoned/When everyone else Is more comfortable remaining voiceless/Rather than fighting for humans/That have had their rights stolen”

Hip hop isn’t always known for its sensitivity around issues of misogyny and homophobia so this song, written in support of efforts to legalize same sex marriage in

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