A quick count indicates I'm probably on about twenty of them and maybe active on ten of those or so.
There are probably some gaps – I'd call YouTube a social networking site and MetaFilter too. Any site that allows you to create a profile and connect with other people on the same site fulfills a couple of the main criteria for “socialness” in my opinion which both of those sites do.
My hometown of Indian Head is one of two Saskatchewan finalists for a $25 000 make-over courtesy Kraft & TSN. You can vote for Indian Head today until noon. If we get the most votes, the money will be used to upgrade our historic ball diamonds (20 000 people used to come to our small town of 2 000 people in the 1950's for games!) and build a new kid's splash park which I'm sure Pace would love! Click on the link to vote (you can vote multiple times so feel free to do so) and for more information about these two projects.
Beck apparently gets together with a group of musicians regularly. They record a cover of an entire album in a single day then release the results. Here's their haunting take on a well-known song from INXS' “Kick” album (and yes, I'll admit it – one of my favourite songs from high school):
(via NPR's “Top 5 Cover Songs of 2010 (so far)” article)
Record Club: INXS “Never Tear Us Apart” from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.
It's my dyslexic birthday today (I was born in '73 and am turning 37) and I know they didn't do it for me but what a great gift to stumble across a clip of a quasi-Beatles reunion as Sir Paul recently took to the stage to celebrate his old bandmate at the conclusion of an All-Starr Band concert in New York. It was Ringo's 70th birthday and the drummer had no idea this was in the works.
From the YouTube comments:
I know its juvenile but given how he died, you have to admit that this DVD case for a David Carradine Tai Chi workout has some unfortunate text on the cover promoting its “benefits”.
When I saw the case at the library, I just burst out laughing. 
Then I realised this would be my *second* reference to auto-erotic asphyxiation on this blog so maybe the joke's on me? 
A new site called IWriteLike.Me claims to analyse your writing and tell you which author's style you most resemble. I tried it with a couple recent blog posts and got Dan Brown (great! 
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On the other hand, when I copied in the recent article I wrote for real money and with a bit of effort to it got me rated as Chuck Palahniuk. Because you know that the members of Credit Unions across Canada want nothing more than to read some blogger's quasi-Fight Club prose stylings! 
Although it was an article about a kick boxing deposit specialist so who knows – maybe it's just looking for certain words?
Hmmm, let's try something. “In the haunted house, Carrie stood covered in blood. Outside, a rabid dog watched as a vampire hovered at the window.”
And the result for this entire blog post is…not what I expected.
Here's some local coverage of a book that's being produced by RPL's “Friends of the Library” group to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the opening of our original Central Library.
I'm pretty excited as I ended up being asked to do a brief blurb on what RPL has meant to me over the years so as long as that doesn't end up on the cutting room floor (er, what's the publishing equivalent? The editor's cut & uhm, don't paste board), I'll post a scan of it when the book comes out.
Sure, they're counting on some store specials in this list but the point they make about the healthiest foods that you can eat often being the cheapest is a very valid one.
Someone posted on Facebook about the big dump of snow Alberta got today. That reminded me of one year when Shea and I were living in Calgary when there was some sort of snowfall all twelve months of the year – including June, July and August. A couple quick Google searches don't refresh my memory but I think it was 2002 or 2003. And you've never had a weird experience till you're walking through the snow to get to your bus stop in the summer – multiple times!
I'm about as far from a Pitchfork following, Fleet Iver Weekend-listening hipster as you'll find.
But I do have friends who fit that category and a recent visit to Vancouver where I got to catch up with one of those friends also introduced me to a new singer-songwriter who I think is probably very much in that mode of music listening.
(Oh-oh, I see that his first album was #47 in Pitchfork's list of 2008's Best Albums of the Year list. That makes Kristian Matsson *way* past his stale-by date for the scenesters! )
