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Friday Fun Link – Funny Facebook Threads (Sept 11, 2009)

[2009-09-17 – Edit: “b” and “c” aren't that close on the keyboard so I wonder what sort of a Freudian slip it was to type “Facecook” in the subject line of this post originally?] A minor trend I've noticed lately is people posting screen caps of funny Facebook threads they come across…“Michael Jackson is dead?““OMG!  […]

Posted 12 September 2009 § Humour § Internet § Main Page § Meme ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Late Link – What The Internet Knows About You (September 4, 2009)

*I'm backdating a few posts to keep up the illusion that I never leave the front of my computer for such things as camping and otherwise spending quality time with my family.*WhatTheInternetKnowsAboutYou.com uses an unintentional security hole that exists in most browsers – the ability to see which links you've clicked in the past to […]

Posted 05 September 2009 § Internet § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Obama's Reading List for His Holiday in Martha's Vineyard (August 29, 2009)

Sorta interesting but not as cool as hearing what's on his iPod.

Posted 29 August 2009 § Main Page § Politics § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Guess The Famous Novels From Their Opening Lines (August 21, 2009)

I got 12/16 and once I saw the four I missed, realised I probably should've got 16/16.  If you want a hint, mouseover the following text…the site fills in the titles automatically as you guess correctly so picking names of classic novels at random is a good way to cheat…and for the record, I didn't […]

Posted 22 August 2009 § Main Page § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover – But Can You By Its Title? (July 3, 2009)

Print-on-demand web site, Lulu.com has a service that helps project how well your book will do based solely on its title.  The algorithm was developed exclusively for Lulu by statisticians who studied 50 years' worth of bestseller data encompassing over 700 titles from 1954 to 2004.  They compared the attributes of these titles against a […]

Posted 04 July 2009 § Main Page § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Late Link – Nerds vs. Jocks – The True Cultural Divide in America

John Hodgman roasts Barack Obama at the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner while trying to decide if the new President is a nerd or a jock (and including a subtle message that perhaps the expectations for Obama were set too high?).

Posted 21 June 2009 § Main Page § Politics § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Late Link – Best of AskMetaFilter (June 13, 2009)

Someone posted a very meta question on AskMetaFilter recently, namely, “what's the best thing you've ever seen on here?“.  The person was asking the question in terms of best advice for a young person just starting out in life but the thread sort of became a place to add links to some of the best […]

Posted 14 June 2009 § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – MyHeritage Look-a-Like Meter (June 12, 2009)

The MyHeritage Look-a-Like Meter is pretty fun.  Pace apparently looks 11% more like Shea than me though to be fair, they have similar facial expressions in the picture I use, neither of them are wearing glasses while I am and of course, neither Pace nor his mother have a beard either! 

Posted 13 June 2009 § Internet § Main Page § Photo ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Early Link – Karaoke Machine (June 11, 2009)

I know I've been neglecting lots of things on this blog with all the political posts the past few months and the Friday Fun Link is one that I've felt most guilty about.  Therefore, this week I'm going to do a pre-FFL, a real FFL and a post-FFL – lucky you!  To start, Karaoke Machine […]

Posted 12 June 2009 § Humour § Internet § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Dickens Link (May 1, 2009)

You've heard of TinyURL, now try Dickens Link which converts long URL's to Charles Dickens quotes.

Posted 02 May 2009 § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °