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Friday Fun Link – 12 Elf On The Shelf Ideas To Thrill Kids And 12 That’ll Scar Them For Life

I think next year I’ll have to get an Elf on the Shelf to entertain myself instead of Sasha!

¶ Posted 14 December 2018 § Censorship § Humour § PopCulture § Sasha § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, holiday, xmas

Friday Fun Link – Eric Bischoff TEDx Talk on the Similarity Between Pro Wrestling and Today’s News Media

Following up on my post earlier this week about the death of the Dynamite Kid, here’s another wrestling related one… Eric Bischoff started as an announcer in the old AWA then worked his way up until he was head of WCW when it came close to knocking off WWE as the dominant wrestling promotion in the […]

¶ Posted 07 December 2018 § News § Politics § PopCulture § United States § Wrestling ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language, television, unitedstates

Friday Fun Link – Trump Sings Ariana Grande

This is pretty funny… …though, to be fair, Obama also got the same treatment:

¶ Posted 30 November 2018 § Humour § Meme § Politics § PopCulture § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language, music, unitedstates

Friday Fun Link – Captain Connor Rap

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

¶ Posted 16 November 2018 § Humour § Sports § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: hockey, music, youtube

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.

¶ Posted 09 November 2018 § Infographic § News § Politics § PopCulture § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, history, unitedstates

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.

¶ Posted 26 October 2018 § Internet § List § PopCulture § Randomness § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, history, science

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!

¶ Posted 12 October 2018 § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, economics, travel

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, […]