Tag: World Wide Web

The Space-Time Continuum: These Are a Few of My Favorite Links

By Edward Willett in Blog, Columns, Science Fiction Columns
February 9, 2012
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We already live in a science fictional future: your pocket, after all, probably contains a powerful communicator/computer with which you can log onto a world-spanning information network. Not surprisingly, science fiction (though not overly successful at predicting its rise) has taken to this futuristic resource in a big way. But how to choose which sites …

Confessions of a cyberchondriac

By Edward Willett in Blog
January 7, 2011
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A few years ago I wrote several children’s books for the Diseases and People series put out by Enslow Publishers. It’s amazing when you’re writing about disease how easy it is to convince yourself you’ve got the symptoms of whatever you’re writing about. The first book was Meningitis. Stiff neck? You bet. Of course, I …

Welcome to the new, improved edwardwillett.com!

By Edward Willett in Blog
April 20, 2009
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For a long, long time I’ve wanted to consolidate the bulk of my web activities under my main domain name, edwardwillett.com. After experimentation and thought, I finally decided WordPress was the logical way to go…and that I needed professional help. (No wise cracks, please!) At just about the time I came to that conclusion, Justine …

Just because I haven’t done it before…

By Edward Willett in Blog
July 12, 2008
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…here’s my name via Erik Kastner’s “Spell with flickr” app: Pretty cool! And to think kidnappers used to have to do this by cutting letters out of magazines.

Huh?

By Edward Willett in Blog
February 25, 2008
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I just happened to notice the Google ads running alongside the two sample chapters of Marseguro on my website: Desiring Lord appearing?Expecting Lord’s return? A pleasant surprise is awaiting youhttp://www.hidden-advent.org/ The Crucifixion of Jesus& the Truth About What Happened to the Catholic Church After VaticanIIhttp://www.mostholyfamilymonastery.com/ Jesus Christ’s Real StoryWho Was Jesus Christ & What Did …

Food on the Web

By Edward Willett in Blog
February 22, 2008
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This week’s CBC Web column (the last of the series)… *** “What’s for dinner?” is a question whose answer can inspire joy, dread, or simply ennui. We all have our favorite recipes, and a few that are far from our favorites. But we get tired of even our favorite things if we get them night …

The past through the Web

By Edward Willett in Blog
February 8, 2008
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This week’s (and the second-last–it’s wrapping up at the end of this month) CBC Web column… *** “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there,” author L.P. Hartley famously wrote to begin his 1953 novel The Go-Between. And like most foreign countries, while we might not want to live there, we often …

Theatre on the Web

By Edward Willett in Blog
January 28, 2008
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Last week’s CBC Web column… *** The gala opening of the new Persephone Theatre in Saskatoon last week had Saskatchewan people thinking about live theatre. Of course, I think about live theatre all the time, since I’m often involved in one production or another as an actor or director, so this week I compiled a …

Nature puts its archives online!

By Edward Willett in Blog
January 12, 2008
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This is cool: the great science magazine Nature is putting its entire archives, all the way back to issue one, number one in 1869 (which I wrote a column about years ago when I came across a facsimile copy at the Saskatchewan Science Centre) online. You can browse it to see what’s in each issue, …

Blogging!

By Edward Willett in Blog
January 11, 2008
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Today’s Web column for CBC’s Afternoon Edition… *** Over the past few years the growing use of computers and the Internet has contributed a lot of weird new words to our language. People talk about ROM and RAM and “megs of memory,” Googling and websurfing and more. But one of the weirdest words of all …

Book sites

By Edward Willett in Blog
December 7, 2007
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Here’s this week’s CBC Web column… *** Books make great Christmas presents…at least, the right book does. But with so many books out there, how do you find the good ones? Well, the World Wide Web is a good place to start. There are hundreds of good book sites on the Web. In fact, there …

Witches and vampires and ghosts, oh, my!

By Edward Willett in Blog
October 27, 2007
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This week’s CBC Web column… Download the audio version. ***** Orange leaf bags with grinning jack-o’-lantern faces cover the lawns. The drugstore shelves are groaning under the weight of grinning skulls, leering witches, and dancing robot mummies, and you can hardly buy groceries without getting a dangling plastic bat caught in your hair. That must …