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Friday Fun Link – Real World Fairytale Spots

Quora asks which real world places look like they could’ve come out of a fairy tale?

Posted 11 May 2012 § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

George Carlin’s Greatest Moment

Definitely one of them… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV1lZMTCqf

Posted 10 May 2012 § Humour § Politics § PopCulture § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Obama Comes Out

Barack Obama made history today as the first US President to officially come out in support of gay marriage (not “civil unions” aka the semantic wankery that gets used so often in the US to denote “different but equal“) The timing is good coming in the wake of a North Carolina vote that saw the state’s […]

Posted 09 May 2012 § Family § Politics § Sad § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “Your mom busted in and said, “What’s that noise?”/Aw, mom you’re just jealous it’s the Beastie Boys!”

It’s a pretty well-known trick for making a successful cover version – take an up-tempo song and slow it down. Still, Coldplay makes the old trick work by taking the Beastie Boys’ first and arguably best-known hit, the party anthem “Fight For Your Right (To Party)” and slowing it down to a near funeral dirge […]

Posted 07 May 2012 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Sad § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Forgot a Song? Just Hum It!

Midomi is a really cool site that lets you hum or whistle the melodies of songs you’ve forgotten and it will try to provide a match. I was able to get it to recognize a Beatles song and “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” but had less success with a couple other (slightly) lesser-known songs.  But […]

Posted 04 May 2012 § FridayFunLink § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

“There’s a bear…strung up. I assume murdered. Maybe a suicide. I dunno.”

Christopher Walken read’s “Where The Wild Things Are“. Probably a fake but either way, wow, just wow.

Posted 02 May 2012 § Humour § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “When all is said and done/We’re not the first to be here/There’s nothing new underneath the sun.”

A co-worker told me about this really cool Nashville-based, jazz-funk band called “Here Come The Mummies” who apparently play in costume to hide the fact that they’re all under contract to different labels as session musicians…

Posted 30 April 2012 § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Ten Gorgeous Buildings Made Out of Books

This not a metaphor (okay, maybe the last one.) (via MetaFilter)

Posted 29 April 2012 § Library § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Birth to 12 Years in Three Minutes

These are two pretty amazing videos – a father takes a brief video of his daughter every week for twelve years (and separately, his son for nine years) then splices them together into a short time lapse video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtyqS68ViWk I wish I had the dedication to do something like this with Pace – but once […]

Posted 22 April 2012 § Family § MemoryLane § Sad § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Rdio

Like I suspect is the case for a lot of people who came of age in the 1980’s, I would spend hours making mix tapes when I was young – tapes featuring different artists, different themes, different moods. At the time, mix tapes were created by dubbing favourite songs from your own small cassette collection, borrowing […]

Posted 20 April 2012 § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (5) ° Also tagged: , ,