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Music Monday – "Whoo-whoot!"

This video is called “A Glorious Dawn” – Carl Sagan ft. Stephen Hawking (Cosmos Remix) and if that doesn't hint at how much coolness is in store for you when you click play below, I have only one word – auto-tune!(found via a Reddit thread on songs that were so awesome you played them at […]

Posted 15 December 2009 § Main Page § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

My iTunes Library Is My "Pending" List – I'll Pay Everybody Eventually…

…when I win the lottery or become a multi-billion dollar corporation, whichever comes first.  (And why is the Alanis song, “Ironic” an ear worm that just burrowed into my brain?)(via MetaFilter)

Posted 08 December 2009 § Canada § Humour § Main Page § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

"A Master's Degree in Archive Management? What does that even mean?"

Last night, Jon Stewart had some fun discussing the Master of Library Science's sister degree, the Master of Archival Studies.  (Fast forward to 1:40).

Posted 13 November 2009 § Humour § Jobs § Library § LibrarySchool § Main Page § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

A Couple R.E.M. Links

The Pop Songs blog was set-up for the author to do an analysis of every song in the R.E.M. catalogue.  This led to Michael Stipe himself contacting the site and ending up answering numerous reader questions about R.E.M.'s songs and their genesis – how cool is that?MetaFilter has a thread titled “What is 'Try Not […]

Posted 06 November 2009 § Main Page § Photo § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Google Maps Navigation, Google Music Search and a Google View of the Internet in Five Years

This will possibly be the end of GPS companies such as Garmin and Tom Tom (their stocks have already plummeted since the announcement):Google also announced that soon, any search for a song or band will result in a stream of the song being returned from various partners which will be able to be played in […]

Posted 30 October 2009 § Internet § Main Page § PopCulture § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

An Annual Tradition On This Blog Somewhere Around This Time of Year

Well, definitely last year anyhow and I think back in 2006 too from the look of things.  I'm sure I did this in 2007 too but the post wasn't tagged, keyworded or referred to in any identifiable way.  (Uhm, NP: “First Snow of the Year” – Hawksley Workman by the way.)

Posted 09 October 2009 § Main Page § PopCulture § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Friday Fun Link – iNudge (Sept 25, 2009)

iNudge is a pretty fun web-based music making program.  Or to put it another way, WELCOME TO MY RAVE!!!

Posted 26 September 2009 § FridayFunLink § Main Page § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

A Couple Interesting Ways to Analyse Individual Beatles' Popularity/Contribution Within the Group

Here's a couple very quantitative way to determine which Beatle added more to the group…– assign point values in descending order based on who wrote each of the Top 50 Most Played Beatles Songs on last.fm (Paul has a slight edge over John)– using the Beatles #1 album, count who wrote more of their #1 […]

Posted 19 September 2009 § Main Page § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Obama's Reading List for His Holiday in Martha's Vineyard (August 29, 2009)

Sorta interesting but not as cool as hearing what's on his iPod.

Posted 29 August 2009 § FridayFunLink § Main Page § Politics § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Radiohead – Inexpensive Charity Single and a Free Song Too

Radiohead is no stranger to innovative music practices.  Recently, they've done a couple more…– a one-off charity single, “Harry Patch (In Memory Of), to support the British Legion, an anti-war song written using the words of the UK's last surviving WWI soldier, Harry Patch who died earlier this summer.– and a brand new song, “These […]

Posted 22 August 2009 § Internet § Main Page § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,