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So appropriate for this year’s election…
Music Monday – “Some other way/There’s got to be another/Some other way/There’s got to be another/Some other way”
The song, “Vote” by the Submarines, details a real-life break-up that happened between the duo who lead the band, just before Super Tuesday during the 2008 US Election. Except for the fact that the last line is “We all know, our system’s broken, And I, I’ll never vote again“, I thought it would be appropriate […]
Friday Fun Link – Tout
Tout is a new social media site that combines elements of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to allow you to do 15-second video status updates. “Some moments in life just can’t be reflected in text. Tout delivers “life as it happens” in full-motion color and sound, as opposed to ‘life as it’s written in 140 characters […]
Too Many Tabs Tuesday: Special Viral Election Round-Up
There’s been lots of social media activity this election as expected. Two of my main aggregators of news & viral content are Twitter’s #exln41 hash tag and Reddit’s Canada sub-Reddit. Here are a few things that have caught my eye recently: ShitHarperDid.com (and related hilarious YouTube videos) (MetaFilter) VoteLab – interesting idea but I suspect […]
Music Monday – “Pretend to care/Now feel my hair/Play with kids/Turns into fight/Snowball Fight/Pussy out”
An election-themed parody of “Like A Boss” by The Lonely Island…
Friday Fun Link – MIT Scientist Captures 90 000 Hours of His Son’s Life on Tape, Analyzes for Start of Language
This clip is pretty cool for all manner of reasons – amazing technology, cutting-edge video editing – combine when an MIT scientist captures the first 90 000 hours of his son’s life on tape to try to understand how language develops.
I’m not a huge curling fan (especially compared to some librarians that I know!) But since the World Men’s Curling Championships are in Regina this week and because someone at work hooked me up with four tickets for Sunday night’s draw so I could take Shea as well as my parents, I’ve been following it […]
Music Monday – “I’d always taught my sons/We were safe around police/But when they charged on horses/Well, I dragged us off the street/It made me so angry/They’d endanger children too/In silencing the voices of 1932”
We had singer-songwriter Maria Dunn as the endnote speaker for one of the conferences I organized when I worked for the Writers Guild of Alberta. She gave an awesome presentation about her writing process mixed with a performance of songs from what was then her newest CD (she was in town a couple weeks ago […]