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Friday Fun Link – The Jeopardy Archive

A comprehensive archive of every question ever in the history of Jeopardy is nerd-paradise. (Librarians are 14th in lifetime winnings by career-type though I’d like to see this graph on a per capita basis too.)

¶ Posted 16 April 2021 § Jobs § Library § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Randomness § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, language, television

Friday Fun Link – Second

Reddit has long released some unique site or game or feature, often tied to group psychology, on April Fool’s Day. This year was no exception as they released “Second” which is a seemingly simple game where you vote for one of three pictures (maybe three different popular video games or celebrities or products or even, […]

¶ Posted 02 April 2021 § Internet § Meme § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, reddit

Friday Fun Link – Coronavirus Cake

Thinking about ideas for Sasha’s birthday…

¶ Posted 19 March 2021 § Humour § Sasha § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, holiday

Friday Fun Link – A Detailed Analysis of Auston Matthews’ Amazing OT Goal

¶ Posted 12 March 2021 § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, hockey

Friday Fun Link – “Unfinished Business”

The floundering Flames shocked the hockey world by firing their coach late Thursday night (after a victory even!) and announcing that former coach, Darryl Sutter, who led them to the game seven of the Stanley Cup Finals in 2004 before coming up short, would be retaking the reins of the team. That run was when […]

¶ Posted 05 March 2021 § Jobs § MemoryLane § Sports § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, history, hockey

Freedom To Read Week 2021 – Day Six – Friday Fun Link – How Different Would E.T. Be In The 21st Century? #ftrw

Shea and I have been showing the kids a lot of our favourite movies from when we were growing up – “Dirty Dancing” to “Adventures in Babysitting” to “Airplane!” – movies that both of us remember being allowed to watch by our parents at relatively young ages with no censorship or restrictions (*maybe* I’d […]

¶ Posted 26 February 2021 § Canada § Censorship § Family § MemoryLane § News § Pace § PopCulture § Sad § Sasha § Saskatchewan § Shea § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, freedomtoreadweek, history, movies, parents, saskatchewan

Friday Fun Link – Best of “Flyin’ Ted” Cruz Goes To Cancun Memes

Also this… Aruba, Jamaica, Ted Cruz ain't gonna take yaBermuda, Bahama, just freeze or ask ObamaKey Largo, Montego, baby why don't HE goOh Ted won't take you down to Cancun, Mexico, HE'LL GET THERE FAST, you'll have no water flowThat's where Ted wanna go, while you're covered in snow — Cliff Schecter (@cliffschecter) February 18, […]

¶ Posted 19 February 2021 § Humour § Internet § Meme § News § Politics § PopCulture § Travel § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday, travel, unitedstates

Friday Fun Link – Which Dewey Decimal Number Are You?

The NYPL has a Buzzfeed-esque quiz that’s pretty fun…

¶ Posted 12 February 2021 § Internet § Library ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, education

Friday Fun Link – Seven Creative Ways To Organize Your Mobile Apps

My personal system is “most used apps on the first page with roughly themed rows”, “other commonly used apps on the second page” and then everything else sorted into folders on the following pages by category but as a librarian, I feel like I should switch to one of these creative classification systems.