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Friday Fun Link – Google Books NGram Viewer

A Google Labs project, the strangely named NGram Viewer allows you to search for various words and see how their usage in books within the Google Books archive has changed over the past 200 year (or any time frame you specify). Examples: Hitler Computer (note the weird blip around 1900?) War Socialism Negro Canada (highest […]

Posted 17 December 2010 § FridayFunLink § Technology ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Friday Fun(ny) Link – Baby’s First Word

When I was born, my parents were running a bulk fuel business in my hometown.  I was basically raised in the office of that ESSO fuel station for the first few years of my life (which explains a lot of my current brain damage and any future cancers I may acquire!) With the number of […]

Posted 26 November 2010 § Family § MemoryLane § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – Sports Cliches

Looking forward to the big Riders game this weekend (though I’ve managed to double-book myself for Sunday afternoon so am thinking “PVR game and try to make it home from event without hearing/seeing/webbing the score” will have to be my strategy.  Not ideal since my most direct route home goes right past the stadium where […]

Posted 12 November 2010 § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

10 Things I Thought I Might Blog About Today

Just as TV and video games are changing the neural pathways of kids, I think having a blog has had a similar effect on me. Throughout the day, I frequently think “Oh, that witty comment is something I should blog about” or “Hmm, that idea I came across on Huffington Post deserves sharing” or “I […]

Posted 05 October 2010 § Randomness ‡ Comments (6) ° Also tagged: , ,