Head Tale

Tag Archives: cool

Google Maps Street View Player – Pike Lake to Outlook

Inspired by the first portion of our route home today – from Pike Lake Provincial Park half an hour south of Saskatoon where we spent the weekend camping on to the Outlook Regional Park where we stopped for lunch – I found a web site that allows you to “drive” between two locations using Google Street View images. […]

¶ Posted 20 July 2015 § Family § MemoryLane § Saskatchewan § Technology § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: google, saskatchewan, travel

National Geographic MegaFactories: Coca-Cola

It always boggles my mind that human beings are able to design something so intricate and precise yet massive and overwhelming at the same time… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiBU_V5M2W4

¶ Posted 15 July 2015 § Jobs § Randomness § Technology § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, food, health, science, television

13 Best Entries from the TL;DR Tumblr Version of Wikipedia

TL;DR means “too long; didn’t read” and is used when you provide a summary of a longer comment or article. A hilarious Tumblr (now private?) creates TL;DR versions of Wikipedia articles. Even though the original Tumblr doesn’t appear to be available, Google Images is your friend.

¶ Posted 23 June 2015 § Humour § Infographic § Internet § List § Meme § Randomness § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: language, wikipedia

Fan-Made Stanley Cup Closing Montage

CBC used to do great montages during every game of the Stanley Cup Finals as well as after the series was over. Apparently they let the montage guy” go when they struck a deal to partner with Sportsnet but luckily a fan has taken up the challenge… (Also disappointed they didn’t do the “State Your […]

¶ Posted 16 June 2015 § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Sports § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: alberta, hockey, music, television

Pace Guest Post: How To Make a Miracle Safe

I couldn’t think of anything to post tonight so I asked Pace if he’d seen anything cool on YouTube lately. This is what he suggested…

¶ Posted 10 June 2015 § Family § Pace § Technology § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: food

100 Places of Dance

Humans and technology and creativity = awesome.

¶ Posted 09 June 2015 § Meme § Randomness § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: music, travel

Some Unique International Borders

This is pretty cool. (Make sure you click on some of the images suggested in the comments as well!)

¶ Posted 31 May 2015 § Canada § Photo § Politics § Travel § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: history, travel

Friday Fun Link – Find Out Which Technologies A Web Site Is Using

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.

¶ Posted 29 May 2015 § Blog § FridayFunLink § Internet § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Find Out What Your Name Would Be If You Were Born Today

This site uses census data to match your name’s popularity the year you were born (Jason = #3 in 1973) with the same ranked name from this year (Mason = #3 in 2015) as well as some other years as well. For the record… Shea would be Amaya Pace would be Abriel Sasha would be Zara […]