Category: FridayFunLink

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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