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Friday Fun Link – Cnnr Mcavi?

The Oilers have lost their first two games against the Winnipeg Jets and Connor McDavid, long known as “Connor McAvi” for the lack of “d” in his game can now be known as “Cnnr McAvi” as he hasn’t had a lot of “o” in this came recently either! As a Flames fan, it’s hard to […]

¶ Posted 21 May 2021 § Humour § MemoryLane § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, hockey

Friday Fun Link – Know Rivalry

Know Rivalry is a research project from an American university where you can enter your thoughts and impressions about whoever you feel your favourite sports team(s) greatest rivals are then see results from other fans of the same team *and* your rivals’ team to see if they feel the same way about your team.

¶ Posted 14 May 2021 § Infographic § Internet § PopCulture § Sports ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: alberta, hockey, sports

Friday Fun Link – How Long Would It Take To Hack Your Password?

You don’t have to submit your password – just type it into the box on this site and it will tell you how long it would take a computer to guess it. If you’re nervous about testing your own passwords, use something similar eg. instead of “password”, use “massward” or whatever.)

¶ Posted 30 April 2021 § Internet § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, language

Friday Fun Link – How Much Do Musicians Make From Streaming?

Not “really” fun, especially if you’re a musician, but this tool is definitely interesting to estimate how much musicians gets compensated for their streaming music and how the amounts differ depending on the service.

¶ Posted 23 April 2021 § Jobs § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, music

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 […]