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Friday Fun Link – “God Bless America” Trailer

My prediction?  This new movie from comedian Bobcat Goldthwait won’t cause any controversy at all. 😉

Posted 02 March 2012 § FridayFunLink § Humour § PopCulture § Video ‡ 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:

You Will Never Kill Piracy and Piracy Will Never Kill You

Following yesterday’s post about “No Copyright Intended”, here’s another relevant article from Forbes.com (via MetaFilter where, come to think of it, I may have originally got the “No Copyright Intended” link as well.)

Posted 08 February 2012 § PopCulture § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Love Actually – Which Couple Actually Stays Together The Longest? (And Other Christmas Traditions)

Entertainment Weekly has a poll on which of the many inter-connected couples in my favourite Christmas movie, “Love, Actually” actually stays together the longest with Jamie and Aurelia (the writer and his assistant) currently with a comfortable lead of 40% of votes cast.  They did independently decide to learn each others’ language so that’s some […]

Posted 21 December 2011 § Family § Humour § MemoryLane § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – 11 Sounds Your Kids Have Probably Never Heard

Luckily, through the magic of YouTube, now they can!

Posted 18 November 2011 § Family § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Randomness § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Amazon, You Magnificent Bastard

An article on how Amazon’s use of their Kindles as loss-leaders for the digital content within their own “walled garden” ecosphere is a winning strategy that makes them a strong contender against Apple.

Posted 12 October 2011 § Library § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Music Monday – “You know she’s there waiting/Just anticipating/The things you’ll never ever ever possess.”

Love those A/V Club covers… …although in this case, Peter Bjorn and John don’t hold a candle to the original… …or even to my own personal favourite version, originally featured in one of the greatest music movies of all-time and now in a clip from The Commitments’ live tour:

Posted 10 October 2011 § MusicMonday ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Steve Jobs: 1955-2011

Just heard the news and, as with Jack Layton’s passing, the death of the co-founder of Apple was probably not a complete surprise but still pretty shocking. In fact, when I said how sad I was, Shea said “As sad as when Jack Layton died?” and I replied “More.”  I went on to explain that […]

Posted 05 October 2011 § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,

Music Monday – “How can you just walk away from me/When all I can do is watch you leave?”

Spooky.  Spooky good, that is!

Posted 12 September 2011 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Kudos to Air Canada

Made it to St. John’s after a 3:30am wake-up call, a 6am departure and two three hour flights – first to Toronto and then another one to St. John’s.  When I fly, it tends to be WestJet or on a charter taking me to sunny climes so this was the first time I’ve been on […]

Posted 30 June 2011 § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,