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Saturday Snap – A Bicycle Built For Three

Shea recently booked us in for family photos.  She had a choice of locales and ended up choosing “Urban” as our setting. Once I saw the address where the photographer wanted to meet us, I knew I’d be happy – she picked the corner of Smith St. and 12th Ave which is right behind Regina’s […]

Posted 11 June 2011 § Family § Library § SaturdaySnap § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Barley Buddy

Now this is social media I can get behind – tell the site which beers you prefer and it will make recommendations for your next brew!

Posted 10 June 2011 § FridayFunLink ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged:

In A Reverse of the Ongoing Move Towards Digitization of Books…

…the Internet Archive has announced a project to create an archive of one (physical) copy of every single book ever published.

Posted 07 June 2011 § Library § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – Capoeira

Mosaic is a long-standing multicultural festival in Regina which is an highlight for many in the city. For $14 (the current price though I remember when it cost half that! </oldman>), you get a passport that allows you entry into numerous pavilions located in curling rinks and community halls around the city (plus free bus […]

Posted 04 June 2011 § MemoryLane § SaturdaySnap § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Don’t Say Gay…

…say “Takei” according to Star Trek’s George Takei who is taking on a controversial Tennessee law by suggesting people could use his surname as a replacement for the word “gay”. (via MetaFilter)

Posted 20 May 2011 § FridayFunLink § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “Follow me/Don’t follow me/I’ve got my spine/I’ve got my orange crush”

Today’s the day.  Go Orange! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYWf-lrnfs

Posted 02 May 2011 § MusicMonday § Politics § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Tout

Tout is a new social media site that combines elements of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to allow you to do 15-second video status updates. “Some moments in life just can’t be reflected in text.  Tout delivers “life as it happens” in full-motion color and sound, as opposed to ‘life as it’s written in 140 characters […]

Posted 22 April 2011 § Family § FridayFunLink § Randomness § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Too Many Tabs Tuesday: Special Viral Election Round-Up

There’s been lots of social media activity this election as expected. Two of my main aggregators of news & viral content are Twitter’s #exln41 hash tag and Reddit’s Canada sub-Reddit. Here are a few things that have caught my eye recently: ShitHarperDid.com (and related hilarious YouTube videos)  (MetaFilter) VoteLab – interesting idea but I suspect […]

Posted 19 April 2011 § Politics § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged:

Friday Fun Link – MIT Scientist Captures 90 000 Hours of His Son’s Life on Tape, Analyzes for Start of Language

This clip is pretty cool for all manner of reasons – amazing technology, cutting-edge video editing – combine when an MIT scientist captures the first 90 000 hours of his son’s life on tape to try to understand how language develops.

Posted 15 April 2011 § Family § FridayFunLink § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – “At first I was just happy you weren’t another naked guy” – ChatRoulette Love Song

If you’re not familiar with ChatRoulette, read this old post first. As I say in that post, a good portion of Chat Roulette’s participants appear to be young men looking to expose themselves to unsuspecting (although if you’re on ChatRoulette, it won’t take long to become “suspecting”) viewers. Occasionally though, Chat Roulette breeds some incredible […]

Posted 18 March 2011 § FridayFunLink § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: ,