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Wisdom Wednesday – The Emphatic Civilisation

This great video makes the case that we haven’t evolved to compete with each other but to empathize with one another. I especially like how it builds the case of how our strongest connections grew from family relationships to tribes to religion-as-extended-family to nation-states-as-extended-family to the natural next step to a worldwide unity of purpose, […]

Posted 03 August 2011 § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Tunes Tuesday – “Gonna get my smiling face/On the cover of the Rolling Stone”

In my excitement to post a 1980’s country song that captures my post-long weekend camping bliss yesterday, I neglected what would have been a perfectly timed Music Monday post. So instead, you get an extremely rare “Tunes Tuesday” post to share the good news that Saskatoon band, The Sheepdogs, won a contest to become the […]

Posted 02 August 2011 § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Music Monday – “Spring is almost over/And the summer’s come/The day’s are getting long”

I had such an amazing time camping this long weekend at Nickle Lake with Shea’s folks at their seasonal site, I thought I’d do a bulleted list of some of the highlights.  (To set the scene, Shea’s parents have possibly the the nicest site in the entire campground.  They’ve had it for nearly a decade […]

Posted 01 August 2011 § Family § MemoryLane § MusicMonday ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Friday Fun Link – MTV News Explains The Internet (in 1995)

An old clip from 1995 of Kurt Loder explaining “the Internet” to the MTV generation has gone viral over the last day or so. This hits home for me because 1995 was when I discovered the Internet as well.  I was nearing the end of my undergrad degree when I ended up applying for (and […]

Posted 29 July 2011 § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Best Music Books of All-time

Hipster hangout, Pitchfork, gets their editors to name their 60 favourite music books of all-time. I haven’t read all of them but have definitely read a few – that Ian MacDonald book on the Beatles is awesome!

Posted 27 July 2011 § Library § PopCulture ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – All Space Shuttle Missions In Eight Minutes

Posted 22 July 2011 § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Music Monday – “Please could you stop the noise, I’m trying to get some rest/From all the unborn chicken voices in my head/What’s that, what’s that?”

Pretty cool story of how this video was made… (via MetaFilter)

Posted 18 July 2011 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – MetaFilter 12th Anniversary Memories

In addition to the traditional anniversary post which echoes the very first MetaFilter post twelve years ago, this year MetaFilter’s owner decided to solicit user comments on their fondest memories about the site on a very special domain– some of which are funny, some are romantic and some of which are poignant.  (And some of which […]

Posted 15 July 2011 § MemoryLane § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

A Few Thoughts on Google+

At the end of June, Google released Google+, their latest attempt at creating a social networking site to compete with Facebook and Twitter. After the failures of Google Wave and Google Buzz, some saw Google+ as a potential “three strikes and you’re out” last ditch attempt by Google to finally gain traction in  the social […]

Posted 10 July 2011 § Technology ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Newfoundland Trip – Saturday Snap – St. John’s Harbour

Posted 10 July 2011 § MemoryLane § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,