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Too Many Tabs Tuesday

Just a link dump of some of the stuff I’ve got hanging around in my browser… “Evolving English” Exhibit at the British Library (via MF) “You’ll Upset Your

100 Best First Lines and Last Lines From Novels

The 100 Best First Lines The 100 Best Last Lines Part of Pace’s storytime routine is that when we come to the end of a picture book, I

In Defense of Sarah Palin

[Edit: I’ve gone back and added a few links to this post and re-worded a few points for clarification in the subsequent days and weeks after this was

Music Monday – “Jesus was a black man, No, Jesus was Batman, no-no-no, that was Bruce Wayne!”

Okay, my Atheist Xmas series of posts is done but I just had to share this song which has one of the best lines ever (see post title)!

8 Smears and Misconceptions About WikiLeaks Spread By the Media | | AlterNet

(Trying the “Press This” WordPress bookmarklet…) 8 Smears and Misconceptions About WikiLeaks Spread By the Media | | AlterNet. [Edit: Oh, and here’s a Reddit thread that summarizes,

Music Monday – “DA;LKJFWQ-E9UFE;LKJF;DLKJDA,M”

I’d bookmarked this clip of all of Billy Joel’s Greatest Hits played at once as something that would make a humourous Music Monday post someday. Revisiting it, I

Sappy Sunday – “Today You, Tomorrow Me”

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

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

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

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

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