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Music Monday – “What it take to make you people dance?”

The “walking down the street, dancing” theme is a popular one for music videos, from REM to Hawksley Workman to the classic of the genre from The Verve. Here’s another one from Blur’s guitarist, Graham Coxon…

Posted 12 March 2012 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Friday Fun Link – The Personal Analytics of My Life (Well, Stephen Wolfram’s Life)

Stephen Wolfram is a famous computer scientist/physicist (though not everyone is a fan) who is behind the Wolfram Alpha search engine.  He recently released some analysis of data he’s been collecting about his personal computing and productivity habits since the early 1990’s. Although MetaFilter has its usual snark in talking about this release (“All that data […]

Posted 09 March 2012 § FridayFunLink § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

I Love George Carlin

Posted 06 March 2012 § Humour § PopCulture § Randomness § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

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: , , , , , ,