Category Archives: FridayFunLink

Friday Fun Link – iNudge (Sept 25, 2009)

iNudge is a pretty fun web-based music making program.  Or to put it another way, WELCOME TO MY RAVE!!!

Friday Fun Link – Rudy! Rudy! (September 18, 2009)

You could pitch this as a movie but you might get told it's too unrealistic – a pint-sized hockey player who's short on stature but big on heart overcomes incredible odds to not only make the Calgary Flames but become a prolific scorer and team leader helping the Flames win the team's only Stanley Cup […]

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!  […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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?).

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 […]

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!