Category: FridayFunLink

Friday Fun Link – Mashup of NHL Player Birthplaces (November 27, 2009)

This is very cool.  A Google Maps mash-up showing the birthplace of every player that's ever played in the NHL.  Although there is the expected broad swath through

Friday Fun Link – The Longest Poem in the World (October 30, 2009)

LongestPoemInTheWorld.com takes updates from Twitter's public feed to create a never-ending stream of rhyming couplets – strangely engrossing. 

Friday Fun Link – MailFreezr (Oct 23, 2009)

MailFreezr is a service which allows you to send an e-mail message to anyone anytime between 1-100 years from now (er, assuming the site's around then – which,

Friday Fun Link – Most Difficult Sports (Oct 17, 2009)

ESPN recently did a poll of various sports scientists and other experts to rank the most difficult sports using a variety of factors – strength, flexibility, endurance, hand-eye

Friday Fun Link – My Parents Were Awesome (Oct 9, 2009)

I think I sort of blew Pace's mind the other day when we were talking and I said “Daddy used to be little like you are now.”  You

Friday Fun Link – Wordoid and Readability (Oct 2, 2009)

A double hit for the Friday Fun Link this week…Wordoid is a site that will generate realistic-looking but not-in-the-dictionary words.  (via Christian Bok's Twitter feed) Readability is a

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

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

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

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