MyReadSpeed.com is a site that allows you figure out your reading speed.
I tried on the sample from “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and got 523 words per minute.
Unfortunately, the site has no way to account for having two kids pestering you while you take the test! đ
Pace at the mall parking lot fair we take him to each year to mark the end-of-school-year…
Country music always makes me think of summer and camping and all that good stuff wrapped up all in one.
Literally…
For the past few years, my aunt has come to stay with us for a month or so in May.
She’s around for Pace’s birthday, helps watch the kids while we tackle some of our spring projects, uses our home as a base for visiting various friends from when she lived in Regina and otherwise helping to keep our house and kids in order.
It’s always lots of fun to have her here and sad when she has to go. Â Here’s a pic from yesterday on our way to Viet Thai, one of her favourite Regina restaurants when she lived a couple blocks away in the Cathedral area.
BuiltWith.com is a cool site that will allow you to find out what technologies any web site is using.  I thought it would just say “WordPress” for my site but turns out it identifies everything from the server software to the hosting company to various plug-ins.
Here are the full results for headtale.com.
An engaging article about the ability of humans, rather than machines (eg. regular Google searches), to track down and then amplify interesting or especially incriminating finds.
I have been trying to help introduce the concept of âhuman search engineâ (actually âhuman flesh search engineâ in the original Chinese) to the English-language discourse: it arose a few years ago to describe collective, even mob-like Internet investigations of news stories, often involving corrupt officials, that would otherwise never appear in the state-controlled media of mainland China. The âhuman search engineâ is not typically made up of hackers in the mould of âAnonymous.â Itâs just the good old net, exchanging online finds, documents and photographs, and amplifying the interesting ones.
The humans who make up the âengineâ are self-appointed oppo researchers who spontaneously combine their free time the way Wikipedia editors combine theirs. The professional media do not have to apologize for being behind the human search engine and making use of what it uncovers, any more than they ought to apologize for being less knowledgeable than Wikipedia and for sometimes consulting it. People enjoy bashing the âmainstream mediaâ for being lazy and having a commie agenda, but the whole thing, the bashers and the bashees, is best understood as an ecosystem. Lions and wildebeests are enemies only superficially.
On a completely related note, I understand why, from a pragmatic view, Rachel Notley bumped Deborah Drever from caucus.
But as a huge believer in free speech, I really think the things Drever posted, though stupid/childish/showing bad judgment/not the types of things a potential MLA should do, were also all legal and it makes me a bit uneasy to see someone censured the way she was.
This will only become a bigger issue as young people enter politics with increasing regularity and we don’t set a good example by trying to pick and choose which actions/activities/language are “allowed” and which aren’t.
