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Friday Fun Link – DeweyMusic (Feb 6, 2009)

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 […]

Posted 07 February 2009 § Internet § Main Page § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Text to Music Generator (January 30, 2009)

“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 […]

Posted 31 January 2009 § Main Page § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – "It's all got to do with the library…we've had boys taking out books without library cards…[so] I administerd a fatal beating in which your son died."

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.)

Posted 24 January 2009 § Library § Main Page § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Late Link – Visualization of English Words (Friday Jan 16, 2009)

A visualization of all nouns in the English language arranged by semantic meaning.(via MetaFilter)

Posted 17 January 2009 § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – JustHearIt (Jan 9, 2009)

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.) 

Posted 10 January 2009 § Main Page § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – List Nirvana (Dec 19, 2008)

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)

Posted 20 December 2008 § Internet § List § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Click Survey (Dec 12, 2008)

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.)

Posted 13 December 2008 § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Christmas Gifts: Some (Select) Religious Perspectives (December 5, 2008)

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 […]

Posted 06 December 2008 § Main Page § Xmas ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – 99 Bricks Game (November 28, 2008)

I was massively addicted to Tetris when it came out (still have the box and 3 1/2″ floppy I originally bought it on too!) so the game “99 Bricks” caught my attention.  “99” Bricks is sort of like a “reverse Tetris” except instead of trying to make the blocks that fall into full lines which […]

Posted 29 November 2008 § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – First Annual Head Tale Xmas Used Book Exchange (Nov 21, 2008)

I found the Secret Santa site, Elfster, via MetaFilter and thought I'd give it a shot on this blog.  Odds are, if you're reading this blog, you're a book lover who has a living space full of books you'll likely never get around to reading or will never read again.  So here's what I'm proposing: […]

Posted 21 November 2008 § Internet § Main Page § PopCulture § Xmas ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: