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(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:

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

Fun stuff.

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

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: ,

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: ,

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: , ,

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 […]

Posted 24 May 2019 § Internet § List § Randomness § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Hell’s Bells (Game of Thrones Spoilers)

They don’t match perfectly but this is still pretty cool…

Posted 17 May 2019 § Meme § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – What’s the Secret of the Most Successful Jeopardy Champion of All-Time? The Children’s Library!

James Holzhauer hasn’t caught Ken Jennings in terms of number of victories in a row but he’s setting records for most money won per game which is arguably a more impressive achievement? His secret? Studying easy-to-read introductory books on a wide variety of subjects at the children’s library!

Posted 03 May 2019 § Jobs § Library § News § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Friday Fun Link – Online Apps as 80’s Gadgets

A designer reimagines how various popular web sites would look as 1980’s gadgets.

Posted 26 April 2019 § Humour § Internet § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Friday Fun Link – The NHL’s Best Team Was Swept in Four Games…

..which makes the fact that the NHL’s second-best team, the Calgary Flames, lost in *five* games after a disastrous performance tonight only slightly less painful. I guess I’ll always have the regular season. 🙁

Posted 19 April 2019 § MemoryLane § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: