Tag: history

Music Monday – "Everything moves real slow when it's forty below"

Stolen from my Facebook status update last night: “Congrats on joining the rest of the developed world, USA!  Now you just need to get rid of the death

FTRW 2010 – Hitler and the Public Domain

German copyright law grants an author copyright for 70 years after their death.  Hitler died in 1945 so that means “Mein Kampf” will enter the public domain in

Friday Fun Link – Say '1810' (January 1, 2010)

Then remember this as the second decade of the new millennium begins.  This year should be referred to as “twenty-ten”, not “two-thousand ten” (no matter what the Vancouver

Student Brings Typewriter to Class

We went to Indian Head to have an early Christmas with my folks this weekend and at one point my mom suggested renting a movie to keep Pace

Lest We Forget…

Linking to this post is becoming another annual blog tradition… I don't know if the Army was where Grandpa got into the habit of wearing his hats just

Music Monday – "I saw the decade end/When it seemed the world could change/In the blink of an eye"

Does anybody know why a company would prevent embedding of their YouTube clips?  Just to maintain control of how their content is presented I guess?  (This is also

Radiohead – Inexpensive Charity Single and a Free Song Too

Radiohead is no stranger to innovative music practices.  Recently, they've done a couple more…– a one-off charity single, “Harry Patch (In Memory Of), to support the British Legion,

Friday Fun Link – World's Oldest Map Found, Dates To 14 000 Years Ago (Aug 7, 2009)

I can't help but use my “Digital Footprints” tag on this story! 😀“The landscape depicted corresponds exactly to the surrounding geography,” she said. “Complete with herds of ibex

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