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Friday Fun Link – The Most Astonishingly Unconventional Children’s Books of 2019

Lots of intriguing titles on this list.

¶ Posted 23 August 2019 § Humour § Library § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, education, language

Friday Fun Link – “Stone Cold” Steve Austin on “Hot Ones”

¶ Posted 16 August 2019 § PopCulture § Technology § Video § Wrestling ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: food

RIP Barb Janicek (1975-2019)

One of the bad things about having a recurring “Friday Fun Link” theme post is that things often happen at the end of the week that leave me feeling in a less than fun mood. The Humboldt Broncos bus crash happened on a Friday, the Colten Boushie verdict came in on a Friday, more mass […]

¶ Posted 19 July 2019 § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § Photo ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: health, ontario

(Belated) Friday Fun Link – The Winning Trick at the 2018 World Magic Championships

(via Gizmodo)

¶ Posted 12 July 2019 § Humour § Jobs § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool

(Belated) Friday Fun Link – Game of Thrones Characters Reimagined as Disney Characters

Fun stuff.

¶ Posted 05 July 2019 § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: movies, television

Friday Fun Link – The Mighty Mighty Bosstones “The Impression That I Get” (Except The Genre Changes Every 15 Seconds)

This is pretty cool, not least for how it features some pretty unique genres compared to most of the “same song in a range of genres” videos that usually do variations of fairly mainstream rock -> country -> jazz -> folk styles. (via MetaFilter) And here’s the original for the record…

¶ Posted 21 June 2019 § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, music

Friday Fun Link – Infographic of Time Travel in Avengers: Endgame [Spoilers]

This is helpful if you found the back and forth in Endgame confusing.

¶ Posted 07 June 2019 § Infographic § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: movies, science

Friday Fun Link – A People Map of the Most Wikipedia Searched Person in Each Major City in the US

Who is the most searched resident of each city in the US on Wikipedia?

¶ Posted 31 May 2019 § Infographic § Internet § List § News § PopCulture § Technology § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, unitedstates, wikipedia

Friday Fun Link – defaultfile.name YouTube Randomizer

This site, defaultfile.name, is fascinating – it looks through YouTube for random files that have been uploaded without the default filename given by the camera or smartphone (DNSC209, MVI753, IMG9903, etc.) being changed to something more descriptive and searchable. For that reason, most are fairly low view count videos, often quite short, and provide all […]