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Friday Fun Link – Good News Round-Up!

It’s been a pretty good news week for me. Week started with news that some long-awaited Assistive Technology I’d ordered at work had finally arrived. At the risk of being a “vague-booker” (er, “vague-blogger”) by hinting at things I can’t actually openly discuss right now, later in the week, I got a couple awesome pieces of […]

Posted 13 July 2012 § Library § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Swiper, No Swiping!

I’m not sure who’d enjoy this movie more – Pace or me? (via MetaFilter) CollegeHumor’s Favorite Funny Videos

Posted 29 June 2012 § Humour § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – World Map of the Most Popular Web Sites In Every Country

Interesting to see which sites are most popular in non-North American/Western European countries.

Posted 22 June 2012 § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , ,

Friday Fun Link – What Would You Take If Your House Was Burning Down? (Photos)

An interesting question – people are asked to take a photo of what they’d take from their house if it was burning down.  I mean, obviously, the right answer is “nothing” and “get the hell out as fast as possible.” Also, “make sure my family is out” is an acceptable answer. From the stuff photographed, […]

Posted 01 June 2012 § MemoryLane § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Library CKI/CKO Simulator

This simulator doesn’t work quite as well as you’d hope but it’s a library check-in/check-out simulator that’s intended to help you figure out how long you have to wait until a book you have on hold comes in. I found this simulator on a MetaFilter thread where a patron was asking exactly that question – […]

Posted 25 May 2012 § Library § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Saskatchewan 1973

A promo from local CTV affiliate, CKCK in the year of my birth…

Posted 18 May 2012 § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , ,

Friday Fun Link – Forgot a Song? Just Hum It!

Midomi is a really cool site that lets you hum or whistle the melodies of songs you’ve forgotten and it will try to provide a match. I was able to get it to recognize a Beatles song and “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” but had less success with a couple other (slightly) lesser-known songs.  But […]

Posted 04 May 2012 § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Ranking The King

Vulture magazine ranks the best Stephen King works from 62 to 1.  I’ve read a lot of Stephen King but not much of the recent stuff.   But King will always have a soft spot in my heart because of how many of my non-reader friends would still devour everything he wrote. My only quibble […]

Posted 27 April 2012 § Library § MemoryLane § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Rdio

Like I suspect is the case for a lot of people who came of age in the 1980’s, I would spend hours making mix tapes when I was young – tapes featuring different artists, different themes, different moods. At the time, mix tapes were created by dubbing favourite songs from your own small cassette collection, borrowing […]

Posted 20 April 2012 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (5) ° Tagged: , , ,

Friday Fun Link – Hunger Games Survival Analysis

I’m not much of a math nerd.  And I admit that stats in library school gave me cold sweats.  But this Hunger Games Survival Analysis is pretty cool. (via MetaFilter)

Posted 13 April 2012 § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,