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Friday Fun Link – The Personal Analytics of My Life (Well, Stephen Wolfram’s Life)

Stephen Wolfram is a famous computer scientist/physicist (though not everyone is a fan) who is behind the Wolfram Alpha search engine.  He recently released some analysis of data he’s been collecting about his personal computing and productivity habits since the early 1990’s. Although MetaFilter has its usual snark in talking about this release (“All that data […]

Posted 09 March 2012 § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – “God Bless America” Trailer

My prediction?  This new movie from comedian Bobcat Goldthwait won’t cause any controversy at all. 😉

Posted 02 March 2012 § Humour § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – #TellVicEverything

I’ve mentioned in the past that the popular quote that the Internet interprets censorship as damage to be routed around.  I think there’s a related rule that the Internet even responds to attempts to control/restrict access in a similar fashion. Public Safety Minister Vic Toews found this out the hard way this week after introducing […]

Posted 17 February 2012 § Humour § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Arkitypo: The Final Alphabet

If I understand this correctly, a design firm set out to make 3-D models of various typefaces, one for every letter of the alphabet, using all of the letters contained within that typeface.  Or something like that. Oooh, look – pretty!!! (via MetaFilter)

Posted 10 February 2012 § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – My Year in First Lines

Every year on December 31, I do a “Year End Memes” post which has two parts – the first answers a bunch of questions about the past year.  The second provides an overview of my year via the first lines of each month’s blog post during the past twelve months. Last year, I split them […]

Posted 30 December 2011 § Family § MemoryLane § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – The Story of “Fairytale of New York”

It’s one of the most remarkable Christmas songs of all-time as well as my personal favourite (but did it make its writers rich as some think a hit Christmas song inevitably does?) Here’s the first in a six-part story of how it came to be (the other five parts should come up as you finish […]

Posted 23 December 2011 § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Sad § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Friday Fun Link – “Mine is a stupid book!”

Jimmy Kimmel: helping to scar the children of America this Christmas!  (This is pretty cruel and also pretty funny!)

Posted 16 December 2011 § Humour § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Friday Fun Link – Things Apple Is Worth More Than

A Tumblr blog puts the market cap of Apple which, depending on the day is the most valuable company on earth, into perspective.  

Posted 09 December 2011 § Humour ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – What It Looks Like Inside An Amazon Warehouse

Some pretty cool photos give you a glimpse inside an Amazon warehouse (while looking at these, it’s also worth keeping in mind that there have been complaints about the working conditions in these mega-warehouses – both in terms of temperature and productivity expectations.)

Posted 03 December 2011 § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Friday Fun Link – A Month In Music

Maybe this should be a Music Monday post as it’d probably fit there too. There’s a new Tumblr blog written by a guy who realised his iTunes library had 10 000+ MP3’s almost perfectly equal to a month of music?  He decided to put all of his music on shuffle for a straight month with […]

Posted 25 November 2011 § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,