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@ryanMeili Monday – Ryan’s Doing A Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) Chat Tuesday Afternoon #skndpldr

Ryan will be participating in an AMA (Ask Me Anything) chat on the popular web site, Reddit, tomorrow afternoon from 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. Sask time (4 – 5:30 p.m. EST) You should plan to participate – where else can you go to find out if Ryan would rather fight one horse-sized duck or 100 […]

Friday Fun Link – Analysing the Reading Level of the 21 Most Popular Sub-Reddits

Cool idea but not too many surprises on this list – the science sub-reddit is really high (just shy of grade 9 level) and the one for people who smoke pot is really low (just shy of grade 5 level).  Also nice to see /r/atheism come in as one of the top three most advanced […]

A Few AskReddit Book Threads

What is the best non-fiction book you’ve ever read? Good fiction about mental illness? Suggestions to get a male non-reader more into books? Reddit’s Favourite Books: The Master List – a Redditor goes through a bunch of popular book recommendation threads and uses the up votes of the books in each to compile a master […]

Too Many Tabs Tuesday

“It’s the Old Generation That’s Entitled, Not Students” – The National Post with a spot-on observation about the current Quebec protests How Reddit’s Co-Founded Became the Mayor of the Internet Speaking of Reddit, a novelty account called ShittyWatercolors did an illustration of my own user name, “HeadTale” (well, mis-read as “HeadTales” but you get what […]

“Rome Sweet Rome” – A Very Cool Web-Generated Novella

A Redditor asks if a modern battalion of a couple thousand Marines could beat the hundreds of thousands of men in the Roman Legion to take over the entire Roman Empire? That leads to one Redditor writing it up the idea as a very engaging novella, a dedicated sub-Reddit for further discussion of the idea and even […]