Category: FridayFunLink

Friday Fun Link – Ten Whatchamacallits and Their Real Names (April 18, 2008)

How many of the following do you know?Aglet.  Bollard.  Dingbat.  Ferrule.  Keeper.  Kerf.  Punt (or kick).  Philtrum.  Phosphenes.  Tragus.I knew exactly one and somewhat unsurprisingly, it was “dingbat”.

Friday Fun Link – Brijit: The World in 100 Words (Apr 4, 2008)

A new site, Brijit provides 100 word summaries of magazine articles in a number of categories.   Sort of a MetaFilter for magazines and you guessed it…via MetaFilter.

Friday Fun Link – Atheists and Anger (March 21, 2008)

Continuing my trend of posting contrarian viewpoints on major Christian holidays, here's a piece on why atheists get angry and frustrated with believers.  (But I am glad to

Friday Fun Link – Typing Speed Test (March 7, 2008)

It threw me a bit to be typing a random list of common English words rather than the more usual sentences and paragraphs but I did okay on

Friday Fun Link – Ranking the World's Best Digital Libraries (Feb 29, 2008)

You know it's a hard core list when the Library of Congress only ranks an “honourable mention”.  😉Ranking the World's Best Digital Libraries

Friday Fun Link – Misc Book Stuff (Feb 23, 2008)

Borders and Lulu.com have teamed up to create Border's Lifestyle, a new service allowing anyone to design and publish their own book and have it distributed through Borders

Friday Late Link – Free On-Demand Music (Feb 9, 2008)

I was going to link to a list of the symptoms of severe food poisoning and leave off at that.  But after sleeping sixteen hours out of the

Friday Fun Link – Well Done Books (Feb 1, 2008)

Gives new meaning to the phrase “cook book“.  And pretty much any site's even more fun when viewed with this.

Friday Fun Link – Three Useful Sites (Jan 25, 2008)

One of the things I'm trying to do while on the road training branch librarians and the general public about the Internet and computers is to go beyond

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