Librarians rejoice as the first thing this artificial brain recognizes when it is turned loose on the Internet? Â Pictures of cats! (All kidding aside, this feels like another one of those amazing milestones for technology which keep coming at an ever-accelerating pace.)
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iDevices and the Visually Impaired
I think I may have posted at least one of these links before but here’s a collection of a few cool stories about how iDevices (iPhones & iPads) have out-of-the-box accessibility features and add-on apps that are changing the lives of visually impaired people in majorly significant ways (that second story about how a new […]
Sappy Sunday – The Best High School Graduation Gift Ever
Saw this idea on Reddit and thought – wow, that’s amazing. If only I knew of a kid that was starting kindergarten this fall that I could do this for! 😉
Saturday Snap – A Nice Father’s Day Surprise
Won a pretty cool raffle prize at the Father’s Day Prostate Walk last weekend…a commemorative jersey and special edition Riders loonie!
Friday Fun Link – World Map of the Most Popular Web Sites In Every Country
Interesting to see which sites are most popular in non-North American/Western European countries.
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!)
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…
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!)
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!
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. Â Now, you can see how his characters may have looked had he actually done the films set in the Old West.