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Friday Fun Link – All Space Shuttle Missions In Eight Minutes

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

Coupland on McLuhan

Google isn’t making us stupider, it’s simply making us realise that omniscience is actually slightly boring.  

Posted 20 July 2011 § Library § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° 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: ,

I Predict A Riot

With a few changes and additions, the following is what I posted on the MetaFilter thread discussing the riot after last night’s game… — I’ve heard a wide range of opinions (many mentioned in this thread) on why this particular riot happened… It was drunken Canucks fans. It was anarchists. It was gang members/hooligans/insurgents.  (I […]

Posted 16 June 2011 § Randomness § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

The Driveway Dream

For a number of Canadian kids growing up in the 1980’s like I did, hockey was life. In the days before Nintendo and the Internet, I would spend hours playing street hockey with my friends.  I would keep scrapbooks with stats of my favourite players.  A lot of my love of reading is probably due […]

Posted 15 June 2011 § Family § MemoryLane § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Friday Fun Link – What If Library Closures Happened During Wartime?

A UK librarian has created a series of World War-style propaganda posters that are pro-library as a response to the ongoing cuts to UK libraries. (h/t to CH)

Posted 27 May 2011 § Library § Politics ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Election Post-Mortem (Literally)

So I’ve had a couple days to let the election results sink in and I thought I’d do a few quick hits on various topics coming out of that history-making day.  As I posted on Facebook immediately after, it was real mixed emotions after the results were confirmed.  Elation.  And puking. Elation in that the […]

Posted 05 May 2011 § Politics § Technology § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (1) ° 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: ,

Mouseland

So appropriate for this year’s election…  

Posted 27 April 2011 § Politics § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Music Monday – “Some other way/There’s got to be another/Some other way/There’s got to be another/Some other way”

The song, “Vote” by the Submarines, details a real-life break-up that happened between the duo who lead the band, just before Super Tuesday during the 2008 US Election. Except for the fact that the last line is “We all know, our system’s broken, And I, I’ll never vote again“, I thought it would be appropriate […]

Posted 25 April 2011 § MusicMonday § Politics § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: ,