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 […]
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…
The title of this site is perhaps a bit misleading, especially for us library types. So I'll let the original poster on MetaFilter take it away… “DeweyMusic makes browsing archive.org's Live Music Archive super easy.”(For anybody who doesn't know about Archive.org, I'd suggest reading its Wikipedia page or watching a talk given by the site's […]
“The P22 Music Text Composition Generator allows any text to be converted into a musical composition. This composition is displayed in musical notation and simultaneously generated as a midi file. The P22 Music Composition Font was proposed in 1997 to the John Cage Trust as an accompaniment to the John Cage text font based on […]
This clip is only tangentially related to libraries but I thought it was funny…as is pretty much anything with Rowan Atkinson in it. (Also, I have no idea where I first came across this clip so apologies if I nicked it from you or your blog.)
A visualization of all nouns in the English language arranged by semantic meaning.(via MetaFilter)
There are a few similar services out there but JustHearIt is one of the best I've seen for being able to instantly stream pretty much any song you type into it. (I'm picking fairly mainstream stuff for the most part so YMMV.)
Fimoculous has been around for a few years, each year collecting more and more “Best of” year-end lists in a number of categories. The book section is the obvious one of interest but there are many others that will allow you to browse away the hours of your Christmas holidays.(via MetaFilter)
Click anywhere on this piece of art then see where everyone else who's ever visited the site has clicked. (I clicked just to the upper left of the middle woman's eyes for the record.)
It's probably not a surprise to anyone who has read this blog for any length of time that I'm an atheist. But I have recently come across a couple items that take people to task for their Christmas extravagances from a religious perspective which I thought were worth sharing.The idea for a One Hundred Dollar Holiday […]
