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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 […]

And Now A Message From Shane MacGowan…

…Happy St. Patty’s Day! But as someone points out in the comments, “Shane will be drunk temporarily but the interviewer will be a twat forever.”  (Though that’s admittedly a pretty broad definition of “temporarily”!) Ah well, he’s always been a gooder, addictions or no.

Che: The Original CC Image?

Everyone know the famous photo of Che Guevara that is  a symbol of revolution around the world. Of course, for many, it’s also a symbol of revolutionary iconography being co-opted by capitalist interests which have placed the image on everything from t-shirts to posters and much much more. I always leaned towards the latter interpretation of […]

Music Monday – The Cream of Britpop Class of 1995 – Where Are They Now?

Noel Gallagher quit Oasis last year (apparently for good this time – it used to be a weekly occurrence back in the day) so the core of the group has reformed as “Beady Eye” with a newly released album, “Different Gear, Still Speeding”, which is pretty rocking… Blur reunited last year but much more interestingly, […]

“NO, Watson, Ken already said that!”

A generation ago, one of the biggest insurmountable challenges in computing was writing a chess program that could beat the world’s best human player.  That eventually happened in 1997 when IBM’s Deep Blue beat the greatest Grandmaster of all-time Garry Kasparov (of course, computers had been beating inferior players for much longer – including ChessMaster 3000 […]

Friday Fun Link – Yorkton to Regina in Five Minutes

A guy I went to elementary school with posted this time lapse video of the drive from Yorkton, SK to Regina, SK.  Normally about a two hour drive, this video condenses the trip to five minutes (and every time he passes a car will make you feel like you’re on a highway in Mexico for […]

Music Monday – ChatRoulette Meets Open Mic Nights?

Occasionally I do a search for some of my favourite bands on YouTube, limited by “Date Uploaded” to see if there are any new clips from their recent concerts.  A recent search for “Hawksley Workman” didn’t lead to any clips of him specifically but did lead to a couple recent covers.  One was tagged “Me […]

Saturday Snap – The Nerd Is Strong With This One

Saturday Snap – 1988 Computer Specs, originally uploaded by headtale. My mom was cleaning out some papers at home and found the original spec sheet/packing slip for the first computer our family ever bought in 1988 which is when I was in grade nine. It doesn’t have the actual price mom and dad paid but […]

And Now I’ll Explode Your Cute-O-Meter…

Usually I’d save a video like this for Music Monday.  But it’s too cute (and going viral too fast!) to save it for next week.    Enjoy!

Music Monday – “You look like an angel/Your skin makes me cry”

I recently discovered a sub-Reddit that could give me Music Monday material for years to come.  r/coversongs is exactly as it says – links to various cover versions of songs done by well-known and unknown performers. Here’s one of my favourite covers that I’ve come across so far… …which you can contrast with the following […]