An AskMetaFilter thread on books & movies to help someone construct meaning from a non-religious point of view.
Michelle sent me this link before Christmas but I still think it’s worth posting. Reminds me of when Pace opened a gift bag containing pyjamas last year, threw the clothes over his shoulder then kept digging while asking “Where present?”
Atheism week continues here on the Head Tale with today’s Music Monday clip, “Thoughts of a Dying Atheist” by Muse. A quick review of the lyrics could provide a few meanings. On its surface, iit’s basically about how an atheist must feel when facing death, knowing that their beliefs mean there is nothing afterward – […]
A Google Labs project, the strangely named NGram Viewer allows you to search for various words and see how their usage in books within the Google Books archive has changed over the past 200 year (or any time frame you specify). Examples: Hitler Computer (note the weird blip around 1900?) War Socialism Negro Canada (highest […]
Google is apparently preparing to launch an e-book service by Christmas with the big unique feature being that the books you purchase will be linked to your Google account so you can access them from pretty much any kind of device rather than having the book downloaded to one or a few proprietary devices. In […]
DiscoverReads.com is a new site that provides book recommendations based on which books you tell it you already like/have read based on a five star rating system. I spent some time entering a bunch of books that I liked (realising that most of the books I rated ended up getting between 3-5 stars since what’s […]
One of the great advantages of being in a province-wide system now is that there is a much greater chance that a patron can find a book they’re looking for, even if it’s a bit more obscure or was published a long time ago. I recently had this experience myself when I was looking through […]
RPL hosted a workshop with well-known library consultant, Rachel Van Riel of OpeningTheBook.com today, the only Saskatchewan stop on a cross-Canada tour that will also take her to Alberta and Ontario. The information presented was excellent and I’d highly recommend her to anyone looking for ideas on how to improve their libraries. As always, a […]
Hockey The Flames got spanked in their first game of the season against the Oilers (who almost made me want to cheer with them with what a dynamic young team they’ve assembled. But then I remembered that only could happen after they’ve sucked for much of the last decade so the feeling passed.) Topping the […]
Stealing an idea from yesterday’s list, I want to talk a bit more about the book “One Day” by David Nicholls since I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it all day. Instead of doing a traditional book review though, I thought I’d do a list (big surprise there!) of some of the reasons […]
