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Music Monday – “Look through a faithless eye/Are you afraid to die?”

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

Friday Fun Link – Google Books NGram Viewer

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

Google Launching E-Book Service to Compete With Apple, Amazon

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

Friday Fun Link – DiscoverReads

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

Saturday Snap – The Beauty of SILS

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

Notes from Rachel Van Riel Workshop at Regina Public Library

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

Five Hits on Thanksgiving Day

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

Some Thoughts on “One Day” by David Nicholls

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

10 Things I Thought I Might Blog About Today

Just as TV and video games are changing the neural pathways of kids, I think having a blog has had a similar effect on me. Throughout the day,

The Sriracha Cookbook

I discovered Sriarcha (Rooster) hot sauce when I was first introduced to Vietnamese restaurants. I still remember the first time I tried it – like so many folks,

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