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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: ,

Friday Fun Link – Horse Race Politics

Many bemoan the coverage of politics that treats it more like sports than something with real-world purpose and implications.  The good folks at Slate magazine have gone one step further, creating a very cool web page that shows the current Republican nomination battle as an actual horse race! They should open source this code and […]

Posted 07 October 2011 § Politics ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – This Is Why I’m Broke

Christmas is fast approaching and ThisIsWhyI’mBroke.com appears to be a site that will meet many of my gift-giving needs!

Posted 30 September 2011 § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Friday Fun Link – Scientists Create Video From Brain Waves

This is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen.  Scientists have figured out a way to create (blurry, impressionistic) video of what a person is watching by scanning their brain waves! This was accomplished by the researchers watching a bunch of YouTube videos and creating a database of which parts of their brain “lit […]

Posted 23 September 2011 § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , ,