…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.
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 – 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 […]
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!
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 […]
Although it wasn’t written for the holiday season (actually it was in a thread about picking up hitchhikers), a Redditor shares a “pay it forward” story that seems extremely appropriate at this time of the year. “Today you, tomorrow me.”
