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FTRW 2012 – Saturday Snap – Pace’s First Book

Last year, I capped my week-long Freedom to Read Week series with a post where I mentioned that Pace had written his name for the first time ever.  That led me to ruminate on what a major milestone this is and how illiteracy is another “big picture” form of censorship beyond the “banned books”-type issues […]

Posted 03 March 2012 § Family § MemoryLane § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Twitter TrendsMap

TrendsMap is a great way to see current Twitter trends from a local to worldwide basis.

Posted 24 February 2012 § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Music Monday – “And then we’ll be married/Then we’ll be man and wife/No dress rehearsal/This is our life.”

Have I posted this before?  I feel like I have but I spent some time this weekend importing old Tragically Hip bootlegs into iTunes and it reminded me of how fully and completely (get it?) I used to be into the Hip – trading bootlegs, traveling around to attend different concerts, studying Gord’s lyrics like […]

Posted 20 February 2012 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Gorilla Cam

This is simultaneously the coolest and saddest thing I’ve seen. (The zoo does that to me.) It’s also got a nice twist at the end that proves we are, without-a-doubt, evolved from apes! 😉

Posted 15 February 2012 § Humour § Sad § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – Arkitypo: The Final Alphabet

If I understand this correctly, a design firm set out to make 3-D models of various typefaces, one for every letter of the alphabet, using all of the letters contained within that typeface.  Or something like that. Oooh, look – pretty!!! (via MetaFilter)

Posted 10 February 2012 § FridayFunLink ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Bookstore After Dark

This was sent around by one of our branch heads (who said he suspects the same thing happens at his location after dark!) Pretty cool!

Posted 03 February 2012 § Library § Video § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Quora Questions Qaptured

I’ve mentioned Quora a couple times before.  It’s a community-based Q&A site built by two ex-Facebook employees that some project will be bigger than Twitter and Wikipedia. The site lets you follow different topics as well as individual questions.  This approach gives you a pretty high degree of personalization and the weekly e-mail digest of […]

Posted 01 February 2012 § Library § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,

Music Monday – “Uhma-manna”

With this post’s title, you see how hard it is to capture a “lyric” as I usually do with Music Monday posts when the subject of the day is a Bobby McFerrin freeform vocal jazz improvisation in front of 50 000 people. I found this via Reddit’s Frisson sub-Reddit which is dedicated to those moments […]

Posted 30 January 2012 § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Hawaii Trip Highlights

Well, we made it back from Hawaii and are now suffering that weird mix of happiness and sadness that you feel when you’re glad to be home after a period of time away but also wishing your holiday never had to come to an end. I was going to try to do a list of […]

Posted 28 January 2012 § Family § MemoryLane § Wisdom ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Hawaii Trip – Jelly Fish

Shea and I could’ve sat and watched this exhibit at the Maui Ocean Center for hours (except Pace was rushing to the shark tanks and it’s pretty hard to argue with that!)

Posted 27 January 2012 § Family § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,