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Friday Fun Link – Thanks and Giving (October 10, 2008)

Is Thanksgiving just about turkey and a quick survey of what you're personally thankful for at your household?  A group of national organizations are trying to get people to look outward on this upcoming holiday. “Thanks and Giving” is a new initiative of CanadaHelps.org, Imagine Canada and MacLean's magazine. “While family and friends are gathering […]

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Friday Fun Link – What Was The Number One Song on the Day You Were Born? (Oct 3, 2008)

Mine was “Bad Bad Leroy Brown” by Jim Croce.  What's yours?

Posted 04 October 2008 § Main Page ‡ Comments (2) °

Friday Fun Link – DIY Library (Sept 5, 2008) …and a question for the MacVangelists out there.

“A new library in Casanera, Colombia shows us what humankind might have built with sticks and stones if they'd never discovered bricks, steel, and electricity. The Villanueva Public Library was built on a modest budget, designed by a bunch of university students in Bogota. And instead of importing fancy, expensive materials, builders used local timber […]

Posted 06 September 2008 § Library § Main Page § Technology ‡ Comments (4) °

Friday Fun Link – 29 Apps for Students and White Collar Workers (Aug 29, 2008)

29 Web Apps For Students and White Collar Workers – lots of cool sites here, many of which I'd never seen before.In other news, I had a surreal moment today: I was at a branch near my house today and got talking to a clerk.  When I mentioned my new position with RPL, she said […]

Posted 30 August 2008 § Internet § Library § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Spreeder – Online Speed Reading Application (Aug 22, 2008)

In undergrad, I went to a speed reading seminar put on by the Psych Students Association.  Basically, the instructor said that if you just kept training yourself to read more and more “parts” at a time – words then phrases then sentences then paragraphs then pages, you'd be able to speed read books and other […]

Posted 23 August 2008 § Internet § Main Page § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Stick It! USB Version (August 15, 2008)

20 Things You Didn't Know You Could Stick In Your USB Socket

Posted 16 August 2008 § Main Page § Technology ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Funny Link – Sometimes You Just Gotta Laugh (August 8, 2008)

Posted 08 August 2008 § Humour § Main Page § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Late Link – "Your Parents Named You WHAT?" (Aug 1, 2008)

I didn't get a chance to do a post on Friday so this will be my late Friday Fun Link.  I thought it was somewhat appropriate after a weekend of explaining to relatives why we would ever name a child “Pace”.  (Okay, it wasn't that bad but one relative did continually refer to him as […]

Posted 04 August 2008 § Baby § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link: The Internet Changes Politics (Small Fry Version) (July 25, 2008)

I've previously written about the 2.0-esque campaign that Barack Obama has run this year – embracing cutting-edge technology, bottom-up organizing, social networking, the wisdom of crowds and all that good stuff.Here is a smaller scale example – a young IT professional in Kansas, partly inspired by Barack Obama, decides to run for State Legislature.  He […]

Posted 26 July 2008 § Internet § Main Page § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Make Your Own Fonts (July 18, 2008)

There are a number of resources online for lovers of fonts and typography.FontStruct is a site that allows you to design a font directly on their web site for free.There are also detailed step-by-step guides to the tools and steps needed to create a font locally on your own computer.  Finally, if do-it-yourself sounds too […]

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