Category Archives: FridayFunLink

Friday Fun Link – My Grandfather Has Kept A Detailed List of Every Book He’s Read Since 1949

This is pretty amazing. (via Reddit)

Friday Fun Link – Captain Connor Rap

I’m going to tag this as “Music” but that’s probably stretching the definition somewhat. 😉  

Friday Fun Link – All Logos for 2018 US Midterm Candidates

This site is pretty cool, doubly so as it allows you to winnow down logos by colour, typography and other characteristics.

The Five Year Old’s Guide to the Galaxy

Reddit has a sub-Reddit called /r/ExplainLikeImFive where the goal is to convey complex ideas in a way that even a child (or a typical Redditor?) can understand. Someone compiled some of the best explanations the site has provided in a single post.

Friday Fun Link – The World’s First Beer Hotel – With In-Room Taps and Shower Mini-Bars – Is Finally Open.

This looks like a fun place to stay!

Friday Fun Link – Minimal Turing Test

In computer science, the Turing Test is intended to tell if you can differentiate between who is human and who is a computer programmed to model human-like conversation in a text exchange between the two. The Turing test, developed by Alan Turing in 1950, is a test of a machine’s ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, […]

Friday Fun Link – Book Cover Concentration

Can you pick which book covers belong to different editions of the same book, even when they have their titles removed?

Friday Fun Link – The Internet Is A Truly Amazing Place

This is a clip of a turtle having sex with a sneaker…  

Friday Fun Link – Turns Out Women Are Way Dirtier Between The Sheets Than Men

If you don’t read this article, here’s the twist to that provocative headline… 😉 New research into how often men and women respectively clean their sheets has found that us ladies are lagging behind in this department.

Friday Fun Link – Trump Prison Montage

Great editing – anybody recognize which show/movie this is from?  So familiar but I can’t place it…The Wire? The Departed?  Something else?