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Friday Fun Link – Browsing The Stacks: A Photo Appreciation of Libraries

The Atlantic has a paywall but allows a certain number of free visits each month so hopefully you can get in (or have a VPN or use Incognito Mode). This is a pretty amazing photo essay. (via MetaFilter)

Posted 18 September 2020 § Library § Photo ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – Inside The World Trade Center (1999)

Posted 11 September 2020 § MemoryLane § News § Sad § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Top Five Experiments In Space

I recently read Scott Kelly’s “Endurance” which is a combination of a traditional autobiography along with with a travelogue about his record-breaking year-long experience in space. This book was recommended in an article I read early in quarantine as a great way to maintain perspective during the pandemic by learning about someone who basically went […]

Posted 04 September 2020 § Jobs § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Technology § Travel § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – Canadian Perverts

Jim Gaffigan who is known as a pretty clean, dad-bod-type comic gets downright raunchy after a visit to <checks notes>…Regina, Saskatchewan?!?

Posted 14 August 2020 § Humour § Jobs § Meme § PopCulture § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – How To Sound Like Different Composers In Three Steps

Posted 10 July 2020 § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – It Was A Good Run, English Language

https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1278313452054949889  

Posted 03 July 2020 § Humour § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Library Run “Famous Quotes” Database

I’ve always loved quotations and used to even “read” quotation books.  Now the web has modernized the idea in the form of quote web sites. There are a few options out there but I recently found out that a library system in Kentucky runs its own “Famous Quotes” web site which is pretty cool!

Posted 26 June 2020 § Internet § Library § MemoryLane § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – Trying & Testing Viral TikTok Food Hacks and Rating Them

 

Posted 19 June 2020 § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – King of Staten Island Trailer

Everything’s changing due to Covid and Hollywood is no different. This is a movie that would’ve had a fairly traditional release – film festival then widely in theatres then to video-on-demand – but it is now being released today directly to various video streaming services where you can “rent” it for $20 USD (more expensive […]

Posted 12 June 2020 § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – You About To Lose Yo Job (Remix)

The situation in the US with the blatant police brutality and absence of any restraint or empathy in the actions of many police officers. But there are moments of levity including this “dance remix” of a protester who informed a police officer that he was about to lose his job because he was illegally detaining […]

Posted 05 June 2020 § Humour § Jobs § Meme § News § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,