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Tech Tool Round-up

I have been much remiss on my new social web tool experimentation lately - I would chock it up to GRADUATE SCHOOL MANIA and ignoring Lifehacker, among with several discarded technology-related RSS feeds.  Or maybe, the existing tools I have simply meet my needs.  But recently I came across a whole flurry of gizmos - [...]


Best of new blog discoveries

(Photo by Sandra Juto. i love owls!)
My blog interests have lately taken a drastic domestic turn, as I dream about my future house (very far away, but a fun distraction) & other design interests such as my new fascination with letterpress printing (a possible future hobby?) &, of course, Etsy.  The dangerous thing about discovering [...]


Prettyloaded: it’s fun to keep waiting

Prettyloaded is a dynamic archive (or “web museum”) of loading screens.  Very interesting!  But I did find it kind of surreal to be consistently suspended in that intended liminal space where you are waiting to experience something, only to find yourself experiencing another wait time, and ad infinitum.


News and other delicious bits

Congratulations to Obama!  Like many here in Canada, I was rooting for him.  I had seen him speak about subjects like religion and net neutrality, amazed as his drive to keep up with new information and continue to be perceptive and thoughtful.  Imagine, a president who is thoughtful! However, I do have mixed feelings over [...]


The blogosphere is rich and mysterious

Here and there I have been discovering some new blogs that I feel passionate enough about to immediately add to my feed reader (Bloglines Beta).  In the meantime I have also been weeding out the blogs I no longer read actively, all part of my routine system of organizing my online habits to make them [...]


Link Love of Late

(Really) Stunning Desktop Wallpapers | Graphics | Smashing Magazine
Re: Why are you a vegan? - Big Think - One of the best video responses to the question I’ve seen.
7 Habits of Highly Innovative People | ThinkSimpleNow.com
Less internets please | Ask MetaFilter
Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog » How to [...]


Updates: Tumblr Infatuation and the Usual Stress Noises

What’s new?
1. Ever heard of any kind of disorder along the lines of self-destructive busy-itis or chronic-bee syndrome? I think that since I was perpetually busy in university with a 20 hour per week job and full time classes, I now have the tendency to take on an abundance of projects to [...]


Prisoner of Winter - Within and Without

An important announcement from Canadian media - a heralding, a warning, a portent -
The weather phenomenon La Nina will bring Canada the coldest winter in nearly 15 years, Environment Canada warned Friday.
Environment Canada’s temperature forecast shows the majority of the country will experience a “temperature anomaly” of below-normal temperatures through the months of December, [...]


Stumbleupon Surfing Spree and New Blogs of Interest

[Wow, two entries in one day during Nablopomo! Since it's past midnight, does this entry count for Saturday?] So I’ve been doing a little of the true ‘web surfing’ lately, which can be really fun once in a while when I’m in that mood for discovering new things and enjoying the sensations of [...]


About Time - Site Changes and 7 New Things

So I finally wrote my About page, which was well overdue. I also took out the trite About blurb on the main page and put in a quotation. I think I will schedule in to change these quotations on a monthly basis - it’s much more interesting than attempting to list all of [...]


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