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Friday Fun Link – “Mine is a stupid book!”

Jimmy Kimmel: helping to scar the children of America this Christmas! (This is pretty cruel and also pretty funny!)

Google 2011 Zeitgeist – Year in Review

Google has released an amazing video that captures the major highlights of the year (while also acting as a great showcase for their various services, especially Google+.) (via

Wikipedia Going Dark?

To raise awareness about the pending SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) in the United States which would give law enforcement unprecedented powers to crack down on Internet web

Social Travel

I was going to do a “one month since the provincial election” post but couldn’t find a giant “What The Fuck Was That?” graphic (which is pretty much

Should Free Speech Trump Hate Laws?

Although anyone who reads my blog for about three seconds would probably be able to do a pretty good job of pigeonholing me and my politics fairly quickly,

Friday Fun Link – What It Looks Like Inside An Amazon Warehouse

Some pretty cool photos give you a glimpse inside an Amazon warehouse (while looking at these, it’s also worth keeping in mind that there have been complaints about

How Did Your Parents Make Christmas More Real For You?

It’s exactly one month until Santa makes his rounds and, inspired by a conversation with a co-worker this week, I posted a question on AskMetafilter that got a

Why Isn’t YouTube Canadian?

Did you know that before there was YouTube, there was a similar Canadian site called iCraveTV. Before there was Google, there was a similar Canadian company called OpenText?

Music Monday – Occupy with Aloha

This isn’t a typical Music Monday clip but it’s pretty cool. A Hawaiian slack-key guitar musician named Makana was asked to play at the APEC Summit as background

Sappy Sunday – Sometimes Real Life Is Better Than Any CGI Fiction

Guaranteed to blow your mind – a time-lapse video shot by International Space Station astronauts flying over the Earth over a period of two months. Earth | Time

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