Category Archives: FridayFunLink

Friday Fun Link – 10 Best Condiments in the World Right Now

Some I’ve heard of, some I haven’t and man, I love me some rooster hot sauce!

Friday Fun Link – 15 Most Addictive Web Sites Ever

Yep, they are. 

Friday Repeat Link – How *Does* A Google Query Work?

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 […]

Friday Fun Link – IWriteLike.me (July 15, 2010)

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 […]

Friday Fun Link – Apple's Eight Steps to Beat Microsoft & Google

Apple Study: 8 easy steps to beat Microsoft (and Google) View more presentations from Ouriel Ohayon.

Friday Fun Link – Cash Cow: User Fees in Alberta Public Libraries (June 4, 2010)

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“.  […]

Friday Fun Link – Google Tourist Heat Map (May 28, 2010)

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.

Friday Fun Link – It Don't Mean A Thing, If It Ain't Got That Swing (May 22, 2010)

“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)

Friday Fun Link – Bokomaten (May 14, 2010)

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.  […]

Friday Fun Link – 10 World Changing Ideas (May 6, 2010)

I love lists like this – especially with this one having lots of Canadian content about radical world changing ideas.