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Friday, March 12
Friday Fun Link - Visualiy Representing the Top 100 Sites on the Internet (March 12, 2010)
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Jason
on Fri 12 Mar 2010 11:31 PM CST
Thursday, February 18
Google Donates Two Million Dollars To Wikipedia, No Strings Attached
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Jason
on Thu 18 Feb 2010 06:18 PM CST
With Google announcing a two million dollar donation to Wikipedia, I wonder, "did I predict the future nearly four years ago?"
"I don't know if any two technology companies have been better suited for each other. There's already been rumours of a strategic partnership and, like the recent YouTube purchase, I think a formal partnership of this type would be an ideal situation. Combine the technological expertise and deep pockets of Google with the open-access policies and "third wave of the Net" cultural impact of Wikipedia and many good things are guaranteed to happen." ...although I have no idea what I meant with the reference to YouTube? I think I was saying that Google should put money into Wikipedia but obviously, I didn't think Google would be able to buy Wikipedia outright...or did I? Tuesday, February 9
If I Knew Google Was Dropping By...
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Jason
on Tue 09 Feb 2010 04:34 PM CST
...I would've cut the grass!
 View Larger Map And my workplace - Regina Public Library on the right and beautiful Victoria Park on the left... View Larger Map Oh, okay, one more. Here's our family farm overlooking the Qu'Appelle Valley. (It's not documented but someone said that a lot of small towns are in the database now too. Indian Head didn't work but the major highways running by it (including #56 which goes from IH to our farm and on to the Qu'Appelle Valley) are mapped. Pretty cool! View Larger Map Okay, I won't keep adding more maps in here but I just wanted to mention that I was wrong above - Indian Head is one of the small towns that's been mapped (I must've clicked wrong or something to miss it the first time) and I got to see a view of the house I grew up in. Then we flipped down to Shea's parents' house in Weyburn to see her parent's house and there's my brother-in-law in the garage, working on my father-in-law's truck! Wednesday, January 13
Shadowrun Has Arrived?
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Jason
on Wed 13 Jan 2010 08:29 PM CST
I never got into role playing games like many of my friends from elementary school did. (In fact, the first time I was invited to play D&D at a friend's house in grade five or six, I got into a fistfight and bloodied another guy's nose! After that, rolling a D20 to determine if you hit someone is a bit of an anti-climax.
 )One game that held my friends in particular thrall was called Shadowrun (which I think they still play to this day.) This game is set a few decades in the future and contains themes of cyber-warfare, techo-terrorism and corporate vs. government power. This game is fictional. But recent news stories about the cyber-battles between the world's largest country and one of the world's largest corporations make you wonder how long until that's no longer the case? Tuesday, December 29
Ten Years of Tech Trends
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Jason
on Tue 29 Dec 2009 11:56 PM CST
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Friday, December 4
Friday Fun Link - Send a Free Google Postcard (December 4, 2009)
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Jason
on Fri 04 Dec 2009 11:55 PM CST
To promote their Gmail service, Google is offering the chance for anyone to send a single free postcard to any US address, no strings attached. Obviously being in Canada, this isn't as handy but you can still send it to someone you know in the US (or if you don't know anyone, why not drop Barack Obama a quick note? Or some of the people in the MetaFilter thread where I first heard about this are planning to send it to politicians to either compliment or condemn some of their recent activities.)
Friday, November 27
Friday Fun Link - Mashup of NHL Player Birthplaces (November 27, 2009)
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Jason
on Fri 27 Nov 2009 09:14 PM CST
This is very cool. A Google Maps mash-up showing the birthplace of every player that's ever played in the NHL. Although there is the expected broad swath through Canada, the northern US, Europe and Russia, I was surprised at how many countries and continents are actually represented. (If you zoom in on the map, you'll only see how many people came from each community. You ahve to drill down using the names of countries on the right side of the page to see the actual names for each location.)
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