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Friday Fun Link – Ask MetaFilter Does Libraries (April 24, 2009)

Ask MetaFilter and MetaFilter are both good places to find threads about libraries since so many librarians hang out there.  (I've linked to the pages for each site's entries that have been tagged with “library” but feel free to try variations such as “libraries”, “librarian”, “book”, etc.)Here are a couple recent AskMetaFilter threads that were […]

Posted 25 April 2009 § Library § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Separated At Birth? (April 17, 2009)

Serendipity can be a wonderful thing.  Every morning, I meet for a brief staff meeting with my colleagues in my unit at the library.  Since the office where we meet is right by the DVD collection, I usually take a moment to peruse the day's offerings.  Today, I happened upon a copy of “Prairie Giant: […]

Posted 18 April 2009 § Main Page § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Free Music Archive (April 10, 2009)

The Free Music Archive is a social music website built around a curated library of free, legal audio…we're working towards an open source model and your feedback will help us get there. We'll also be honing our Help/FAQ pages based on your input, so please let us know what you think!

Posted 11 April 2009 § Internet § Main Page § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Intelligent YouTube: The Best Smart Videos (April 4, 2009)

A guide to YouTube videos featuring courses, lectures, conference presentations and so on from universities, private companies and other places.

Posted 04 April 2009 § Main Page § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Video to MP3 Convertor

Sometimes you come across a really cool song on YouTube that you know you'll never get via iTunes or even the P2P filesharing services.  That's where Video2MP3.net comes in.  Copy the YouTube URL into this site, hit enter and a few minutes later, there's a downloadable link to a 128kbps version of the song you […]

Posted 28 March 2009 § Internet § Main Page § PopCulture ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – The Very Happy Googlepillar? (Mar 20, 2009)

I knew taking a blog-holiday to go to Vegas could be a bad idea.  I haven't posted for the last couple days which is a gap that I've only had a few times in the history of this blog – even if I miss the odd day, I very rarely miss two in a row.  […]

Posted 20 March 2009 § Internet § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – "You Always Double Down on 11" (March 14, 2009)

Apparently they had cameras following me around in Vegas.  Here's a clip from the upcoming documentary…

Posted 14 March 2009 § Main Page § PopCulture § Travel § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Are You A Degree Snob? (March 6, 2009)

I'm not sure where I first heard the term “degree snob” but it was most memorably put to me in reference to a professional librarian who would literally not lower themself to speak to non-professional staff if it could be helped!   With that as a jumping off point (and based on some of my […]

Posted 06 March 2009 § Humour § Jobs § Library § LibrarySchool § Main Page ‡ Comments (6) °

FTRW 2009 – A Collection of Truly Offensive Jokes (Not For the Faint-Hearted) (Feb 27, 2009)

Reddit recently had a question posted asking their community to submit the most offensive joke(s) they knew.  There's some pretty disturbing material here and if you doubt the power of the written word to affect people just as much as the visuals of pornography or the sound of foul language, look no further than this […]

Posted 27 February 2009 § Censorship § Humour § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Watch Christopher Walken Roast A Chicken (Feb 13, 2009)

Before the Internet, I probably would not have had access to Christopher Walken's techniques for roasting a chicken.  My life is better for having this knowledge…                     

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