Bush's wife is a librarian for anybody who doesn't know. (Now if she could just teach him to pronounce “eclectic”…)Oh, and I'm tagging this with “humour” but really, it's about as far from funny as it gets. I think it was better when Bush admitted that all he read was Sports Illustrated and summaries of […]
“With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, Hans Rosling debunks a few myths about the “developing” world. Rosling is professor of international health at Sweden’s world-renowned Karolinska Institute, and founder of Gapminder, a non-profit that brings vital global data to life. (Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 20:35) – More TEDTalks at http://www.ted.com” […]
This is very possibly how you will interact with your computer in the near future. Wow.(Quinn, who has a great post today on why he blogs, found it funny that I equated the Flames 2004 run with other major milestones in my life such as graduation and marriage in my recent “About Me” post. So […]
It's Telemiracle Weekend in Saskatchewan. This is an annual telethon, run by the province's Kinsmen Clubs, that's been held for the past 31 years in the province and which holds the Guinness World Record for most money raised per capita by a particular province/state/region. Since the turn of this century, Saskatchewan's one million people have […]
As a bit of a follow-up to yesterday's FTRW post about an attempt to ban “Fahrenheit 451” in Texas last fall, here's an earlier essay by Ray Bradbury, on various attempts to censor his work over the years. In other news, my appearance on the “Book Chick” radio show a couple nights ago talking about […]
Just what the world needs (and what I need too) – another blog!I've set up a blog called The Universal, mainly as a place to link-dump stories and web sites related to the topic of online broadcasting which is a personal interest of mine (remind me to do a post about my summers selling door […]
It's a loooong story but in our genealogy class, there was a bit of a revolt and a group of students ended up going to the prof to request our final assignment be changed from something that, as assigned, was going to be very redundant and not give us much in the way of library-centered […]
I said last week that I love getting something in my in-box on Friday morning that I can turn around and use as a Friday Fun Link later that same day. (In fact, feel free to e-mail me if you know a site that is funny, unique or thought-provoking. I can’t guarantee I’ll use it […]
Reason magazine recently declared the “end of the post-9/11 era” citing a story linking Zsa Zsa Gabor with Anna Nicole Smith after the latter's death. Hard to argue with that. The whole media frenzy around the Anna Nicole Smith death the other day shows that we're truly back to the way things were on September […]
A cultural anthropology professor has put together a very engaging presentation on what exactly “Web 2.0” is all about. (via Digg) [2007-02-05 – I love MetaFilter but man, sometimes they can be harsh. The majority are ripping this video a new one in a thread that was just posted. I sometimes forget that people – […]
