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“I am very real” – Kurt Vonnegut Addresses The Teacher and School Board That Burned His Book

A great defence of the freedom to read by my favourite author when a North Dakota community burns his book.  More at MetaFilter. In completely unrelated news, we’re off to Minot, ND for a weekend of water slides, shopping and America-only treats like Pandora and Cherry Coke.  😉

Posted 05 April 2012 § Family § Library § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – Celebrities Read Tweets About Themselves

(via MetaFilter)

Posted 23 March 2012 § Humour § PopCulture § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Too Many Tabs Tuesday

Well, based on how slow it’s been lately, either my computer’s dying or I have too many tabs open.  Let’s hope it’s the latter as that’s easily solved! Super excited to see Ryan Meili’s name pop up as a strong “definitely maybe” in a recent list of potential NDP leadership candidates, especially since, as the […]

Posted 20 March 2012 § Library § Politics § PopCulture § Randomness § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,

On Tipping in Cuba

Chris Turner, author of the Hammy winning book, “The Leap”, has an outstanding article in the latest issue of The Walrus about the unique relationship between Canada and Cuba which captures, way better than I ever could, much of the mixed emotions you feel as a wealthy Canadian tourist in Cuba – are you helping […]

Posted 14 March 2012 § Family § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

I Love George Carlin

Posted 06 March 2012 § Humour § PopCulture § Randomness § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

FTRW 2012 – Oscar Censorship

No, not the seven-second delay when the documentary picture winner said “fuck” – that’s nothing. Yesterday, I wrote about censorship from a more broad perspective than the usual FTRW topics of censorship of books (and DVD’s and graphic novels and so on.)  Today, I’d like to continue talking about bigger picture (er, no pun intended) […]

Posted 29 February 2012 § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

FTRW 2012 – Censoring Your Democratic Right to Vote

Censorship doesn’t just happen with books and videos, it happens in a variety of ways when people in positions of power and authority attempt to control, influence and manipulate your behaviour. Perhaps the most insidious way that they do this is when powerful people attempt to eliminate our fundamental democratic rights.  Right now, a major […]

Posted 28 February 2012 § Library § Politics § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Kids Say The Damndest Things (In the Library)

The idea behind this site is pretty good but I think it’d work better if it was opened up so anyone could contribute so the person running it would have lots of content. For example, you can check out the ThingsMyKidSaid sub-reddit for lots of great submissions. At this point, I should probably add something […]

Posted 22 February 2012 § Family § Humour § Library § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Music Monday – “And then we’ll be married/Then we’ll be man and wife/No dress rehearsal/This is our life.”

Have I posted this before?  I feel like I have but I spent some time this weekend importing old Tragically Hip bootlegs into iTunes and it reminded me of how fully and completely (get it?) I used to be into the Hip – trading bootlegs, traveling around to attend different concerts, studying Gord’s lyrics like […]

Posted 20 February 2012 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – Arkitypo: The Final Alphabet

If I understand this correctly, a design firm set out to make 3-D models of various typefaces, one for every letter of the alphabet, using all of the letters contained within that typeface.  Or something like that. Oooh, look – pretty!!! (via MetaFilter)

Posted 10 February 2012 § FridayFunLink ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,