Some I’ve heard of, some I haven’t and man, I love me some rooster hot sauce!
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Posted 13 August 2010
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I posted this three years ago (!) but the question recently popped back into my head and since I find the answer truly awe-inspiring in that “how many stars are there in the galaxy?” kinda way, I'm going to post it again. I suspect the process has remained essentially the same in those intervening three […]
A new site called IWriteLike.Me claims to analyse your writing and tell you which author's style you most resemble. I tried it with a couple recent blog posts and got Dan Brown (great! ). On the other hand, when I copied in the recent article I wrote for real money and with a bit of […]
Apple Study: 8 easy steps to beat Microsoft (and Google) View more presentations from Ouriel Ohayon.
Posting this as a Friday Fun Link sorta feels like being the party guest who comes over and starts criticizing your housekeeping or your parenting skills or whatever. But anyhow, here I am in Edmonton, enjoying the CLA conference and I can't help but re-post my essay, “Cash Cow: User Fees in Alberta Public Libraries“. […]
Here's a pretty cool mash-up that takes user-submitted photos to Panoramio and places them onto a Google Map to identify tourist hot-spots worldwide.
“The Swinger is a bit of python code that takes any song and makes it swing. It does this be taking each beat and time-stretching the first half of each beat while time-shrinking the second half. It has quite a magical effect.”The Swinger(via MetaFilter)
The device in the video below was mentioned in “This Book Is Overdue: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All!“, a book that was on my “To Read” list but which I bumped up after reading Biblioblond's review where she mentioned that a couple of our mutual friends got a shout-out in the book. […]
I love lists like this – especially with this one having lots of Canadian content about radical world changing ideas.