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Friday Fun Link – “It was Google back in the day.” Teens React to Encyclopedias

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Posted 11 September 2015 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – Calculate Your Reading Speed

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! 😉

Posted 05 June 2015 § FridayFunLink § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

You Can’t Defend Public Libraries and Oppose File Sharing

Libraries and file-sharing do not differ in principle. The purpose of libraries was – is – to make culture and knowledge available to as many as possible, as efficiently as possible, for free – simply because of the greater socioeconomic benefit of an educated and cultural populace. How is this not file-sharing? Great article that […]

Posted 21 May 2015 § Library § Politics § PopCulture § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Litany of Lies: A Third Grader’s Reading Log Exposed!

I often feel guilty that Shea and I don’t do a better job of keeping up Pace’s reading log but after doing a few “I’m a librarian.  I can confirm he’s reading all the time.  We’re good.”-type entries at the start of the year, we’ve slipped off completely. At least that means we won’t get any notes […]

Posted 12 May 2015 § Humour § Pace ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Yeah Baby! #Flames Eliminate The Canucks to Move To Round Two of #StanleyCup Playoffs

In 2004, I attended the Alberta Book Awards on the same evening as game six of the Canucks-Flames first round playoff series. As one of the event organizers, I kept providing updates on the score to the MC who relayed them to the partisan crowd (oh, those not-that-long-ago days before everyone had a smartphone in […]

Posted 26 April 2015 § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

How JK Rowling Plotted Harry Potter With A Hand-drawn Spreadsheet

Interesting.

Posted 08 April 2015 § Library § PopCulture § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Mark Zuckerberg Starts Online Book Club – Is He The Internet Generation’s Oprah?

Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has started an online book club to help facilitate his annual resolution.  Other years, he’s pledged to do everything from study Mandarin to wearing a tie every day to meeting one new person (who doesn’t work for Facebook) each day.  This year, he’s aiming to read at least one book every […]

Posted 04 January 2015 § Internet § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

“What If: Serious Scientific Answers to Ridiculous Hypothetical Questions”

Posted 23 December 2014 § Internet § PopCulture § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

19 Unbelievably Laughable Book Fails

Some funny stuff.

Posted 16 November 2014 § Humour § PopCulture § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

What Book Publishers Can Learn From Luxury Brands

Here’s an interesting argument from the Globe & Mail that book publishers hurt themselves right out of the gate by allowing retailers to set the terms (discounts, merchandising, etc.) by which their books – even the high-demand latest releases – are sold. It goes on to say that publishers should act like luxury good brands […]

Posted 09 November 2014 § Library § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: