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Re-live TEDxRegina Through the Magic of Online Streaming Video!

Here’s my personal favourite presentation from TEDxRegina last month. (All the TEDxRegina videos are up but as of right now, and just for me (?), not all eight are showing up when you search for that tag.  But that’s okay because I can hold a few back for later posting!)  

Posted 19 June 2012 § Humour § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Technology § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “Maybe a lonely man/Who’s in the middle of something/That he doesn’t really understand.”

Happy 70th Birthday to Sir Paul McCartney (or is it?) Some of my personal faves of Sir Macca’s songs through the years with the Beatles, Wings and solo…

Posted 18 June 2012 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Sad § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Save a Library By Burning Books?

Brilliant! (via MetaFilter with a h/t to the colleague who sent it to me at the exact same moment!)

Posted 15 June 2012 § Humour § Library § Politics § Video § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Friday Fun Link – Watch Books Being Bought Live and Worldwide

Pretty cool site that shows books as they’re bought around the world – hard to look away!

Posted 08 June 2012 § Library § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Star Wars Characters Re-imagined as Old West Characters

It’s pretty common knowledge that George Lucas at least partly based the Star Wars movies on some of the serialized westerns he saw as a child.  Now, you can see how his characters may have looked had he actually done the films set in the Old West.

Posted 07 June 2012 § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Too Many Tabs Tuesday

“It’s the Old Generation That’s Entitled, Not Students” – The National Post with a spot-on observation about the current Quebec protests How Reddit’s Co-Founded Became the Mayor of the Internet Speaking of Reddit, a novelty account called ShittyWatercolors did an illustration of my own user name, “HeadTale” (well, mis-read as “HeadTales” but you get what […]

Posted 05 June 2012 § Family § Politics § PopCulture § Technology § Video § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

Saturday Snap – Superman & Spider-man Team Up!

If you think “The Avengers” made a lot of money, can you imagine what a cross-company, joint DC-Marvel film with Superman and Spider-man teaming up to battle Dr. Doom and The Parasite with guest appearances from The Hulk and Wonder Woman would be like? Well, it’s already happened in comic book form as this gem […]

Posted 02 June 2012 § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Work ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: ,

Sappy Sunday – Lip Dub Wedding Proposal

This one’s pretty sweet…

Posted 27 May 2012 § PopCulture § Sad § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

ReadLists

ReadLists is a new site which allows people to combine and share collections of web pages – articles, reviews, recipes, course materials, etc. – in a single package that you can easily download to your smart phone.  I’m not necessarily endorsing this site but just sharing a cool find.  Feel free to read the original […]

Posted 24 May 2012 § Library § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

How To Fix the Google+ Engagement Problem

I don’t log in to Google+ as much as I did when it first launched but I still find it a nice option when the stream of kid and vacation pictures on Facebook gets to be too much (and I’m as guilty of those crimes as anyone.) My Google circles are mostly made up of […]

Posted 23 May 2012 § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,