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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: ,

Friday Fun Link – 11 Sounds Your Kids Have Probably Never Heard

Luckily, through the magic of YouTube, now they can!

Posted 18 November 2011 § Family § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Randomness § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Friday Fun Link – BookLamp

There are a lot of recommendation engines out there – Amazon, GoodReads, LibraryThing, Novelist, etc. etc. etc. – but BookLamp is one of the most unique I’ve found in that it tries to use pure mathematical algorithms to choose the books it recommends for users, similar to what Pandora does for music. Their biggest fault […]

Posted 04 November 2011 § Library § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Some people bring their laptops to the library…

…this guy pulled this out of his bag. (via Reddit)

Posted 28 October 2011 § Library § Technology ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Go The Fuck to the Library

It’s funny cause it’s true. (h/t to TR & CF)

Posted 21 October 2011 § Library § Randomness § Work ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – “Dad Dancing”

Evolution even has an explanation for why your old man dances the way he does! (h/t to SM on Twitter)

Posted 14 October 2011 § Family § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,