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100 Places of Dance

Humans and technology and creativity = awesome.

Posted 09 June 2015 § Meme § Randomness § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Music Monday – “Why do you build me up (build me up) buttercup baby/Just to let me down (let me down) and mess me around?”

Highway sing-a-long YouTube channel. Greatest idea ever or car crash waiting to happen? šŸ˜‰ “Build Me Up Buttercup” – The Foundations

Posted 08 June 2015 § Humour § Meme § MusicMonday § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “Cottonwood fallin’/Like snow in July/Fireflies poppin’/Like the fourth of July.”

Country music always makes me think of summer and camping and all that good stuff wrapped up all in one. Literally…

Posted 01 June 2015 § Humour § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Saskatchewan § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Music Monday – “So I looked at the scenery/She read her magazine/And the moon rose over an open field.'”

“America” – First Aid Kit

Posted 25 May 2015 § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

You Can’t Defend Public Libraries and Oppose File Sharing

Libraries and file-sharing do not differ in principle. The purpose of libraries was ā€“ is ā€“ to make culture and knowledge available to as many as possible, as efficiently as possible, for free ā€“ simply because of the greater socioeconomic benefit of an educated and cultural populace. How is this not file-sharing? Great article that […]

Posted 21 May 2015 § Library § Politics § PopCulture § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Music Monday – “Take one last look/At the place you are leaving”

Tom Waits with a song that’s a perfect tribute as David Letterman heads towards his final show this Wednesday. Also from Rolling Stone… Top Ten Profound Letterman Moments Six Iconic Letterman InterviewsĀ  Top Ten Repeat Guests on Letterman Highlight From Each Year of Letterman’s Run …and How David Letterman Reinvented TV. “Take One Last Look” […]

Posted 18 May 2015 § List § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Music Monday – “Wishin’ I had money/Wishin’ for the time to spend it all/Wishin’ I was pretty/Wish that I could twist the world ’round my finger”

Stumbled across this folk/Americana version of “Wish I Was Skinny” by 1990’s Britpop band, Boo Radleys, which makes one of my favourite songs possibly even better! šŸ˜‰  

Posted 11 May 2015 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Music Monday – “They call me a troublemaker ā€™cause Iā€™m finally saying ā€œnoā€/Iā€™ve been working hard and yet my pay is still so low

A highlight of my time at the Writers Guild of Alberta wasĀ getting to book Maria Dunn to speak and perform at our annual conference at the Royal Tyrrell Museum. “Troublemaker” – Maria Dunn

Posted 13 April 2015 § MusicMonday § Politics § PopCulture § Video § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “I’ve had enough of watching scenes/Of schizophrenic, ego-centric, paranoiac, prima-donnas/All I want is the truth now/Just gimme some truth”

“Gimme Some Truth” – John Lennon

Posted 06 April 2015 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Listen To Every Single Music Genre Ever

Someone postedĀ an article on Facebook about a cool site called Every Noise At Once. The siteĀ allows you to listen to samples and playlists of every kind of genre of music there is, grouped by similarity and searchable by artist, location and many other ways.

Posted 03 April 2015 § FridayFunLink § List § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,