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Too Many Tabs Tuesday

The Stanley Cup playoffs are heating up but it’s still the off season for some teams.  The official Twitter accounts of the Columbus Blue Jackets and the Tampa Bay Lightning engaged in what is perhaps the world’s first game of Twitter Tac Toe! “Dad Jokes” are shorthand for lame jokes that inevitably get groans from […]

Posted 20 May 2014 § Family § Humour § Infographic § List § PopCulture § Randomness § Sports § Travel § UK § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , ,

Too Many Tabs Tuesday

Some of the times science fiction led to science fact What Your Country Says About Your Reading Habits What’s the single biggest mistake parents can make? (AskReddit) 40 Ways Kids Ruin Everything Good In This World (very funny!) How The Working Class Was Forgotten 10 Segments That Make Us Ashamed To Be Wrestling Fans And one […]

Posted 06 May 2014 § Baby § Canada § Humour § Politics § PopCulture § Sad § UK § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Friday Fun Link – The Most Famous Book Set In Each of the 50 States

Earlier this week, I posted an infographic of the most famous brand from each US state. Soon after, I came across a similar graphic which features (arguably) the most famous book set in every state…

Posted 25 April 2014 § FridayFunLink § Infographic § List § PopCulture § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

“Stone Cold” Steve Austin Gives a NSFW Defense of Gay Marriage

Hell yeah! (h/t to JK or FB)

Posted 23 April 2014 § Censorship § Humour § Politics § PopCulture § Sports § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

The Corporate States of America

Here’s an interesting map of the best known brand from each American state (with a handy list of all the brands-by-state so you can see the smaller states that are harder to make out on the map)…

Posted 22 April 2014 § Infographic § Jobs § List § United States ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged:

Random Thoughts on #WrestlemaniaXXX Tonight #spoilers

Here are some random thoughts on the 30th anniversary of the biggest wrestling pay-per-view of all-time… – *loved* the opening HHH vs. Daniel Bryan match and its placement on the card too after some people speculated that it would be right before the main event Triple Threat match which would’ve been really dumb in my […]

Posted 06 April 2014 § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Sports § Technology § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Interviewly Reformats Reddit AMAs for Readability

Interviewly is a new web site that re-purposes the many Reddit Ask Me Anything chat sessions into a more readable format that mimics a traditional magazine interview layout.  No Ryan Meili AMA in the Politics section…yet. (via MetaFilter)

Posted 21 March 2014 § FridayFunLink § Internet § Politics § PopCulture § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Who Owns The Copyright to the World’s Most Retweeted Photo?

Ellen Degeneres arranged a “spontaneous” selfie with some heavy hitters at the recent Oscar telecast.  After tweeting it, it quickly crashed Twitter, became the most re-tweeted photo of all-time eclipsing Obama’s “Four More Years” tweet many times over, and becoming ripe for parody. But it also quickly led to a question about who owned the copyright to […]

Posted 07 March 2014 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Internet § Meme § PopCulture § Technology § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Why Libraries Deserve To Be Hip

A mother explains the value of libraries to her and her family. I like being among the people who come to my branch for English language classes, the retirees who sit and read the newspaper, the rowdy kids who are killing time before they go home, and moms of young children reading their tots Ezra […]

Posted 02 March 2014 § Library § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Music Monday – “Oh please/Say to me/You’ll let me be your man”

Yesterday was the 50th Anniversary of The Beatles’ first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show where they performed to a record-setting audience of 70 million people. Here’s a clip from one of their performances that night… “I Want To Hold Your Hand” – The Beatles

Posted 10 February 2014 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § UK § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,