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Friday Fun Link – Canadian Police No Longer Targeting File Sharing For Personal Use (Nov 16, 2007)

“The Canadian police announced that it will stop targeting people who download copyrighted material for personal use. Their priority will be to focus on organized crime and copyright theft that affects the health and safety of consumers instead of the cash flow of large corporations.“My French isn't good enough to know if a Le Devoir […]

Posted 16 November 2007 § Humour § Internet § Main Page § PopCulture § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Lazy Library (Nov 9, 2007)

Lazy Library is a website dedicated to recommending books that are no longer than 200 pages, on any subject, to help those that find reading to be “time consuming”.Like Michelle, I think it's not as dumb of an idea as it sounds at first and might have some utility in today's culture.  (I had a […]

Posted 10 November 2007 § Internet § Main Page § PopCulture ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Free Rice (Nov 2, 2007)

Play a fun word game and donate rice to help end world hunger with every correct answer at FreeRice.com. Or, if you don’t feel like playing the game, why not just visit HungerSite.ccom? (Thanks to Gillian W. for the tip)

Posted 03 November 2007 § Internet § Main Page § Politics ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Library Chick's Home Library, Book Search & Learning Center (Oct 26, 2007)

Librarian Chick provides an exhaustive list of online resources for students and librarians in the academic environment – from audio books to test taking and everything in between. She also has a Learning Center that lets you search for free educational information, sites, games and software online. Finally, to complete the trifecta of excellent resources, […]

Posted 26 October 2007 § Internet § Library § List § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – The Daily Show Makes Entire Archives Available Online (Oct 20, 2007)

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart has put up over 13 000 segments going back to 1999.  That's pretty cool…or at least it would be if I could get any of the videos in the archives to load.  Maybe the site's just being hammered with traffic because it's so new.  But it almost makes you […]

Posted 20 October 2007 § Internet § Main Page § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – What The F***? Why We Curse (Oct 12, 2007)

I’ve done a pretty fucking exhaustive swearing-related FFL before but this fucking article is a nice fucking addition to that list. Fuck yeah!

Posted 13 October 2007 § Censorship § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Wikirage (Oct 5, 2007)

Wikirage gives you a snapshot of which Wikipedia articles have had the most edits during a certain timeframe – a very useful way to see what’s happening in the world and on people’s minds (well, what’s on the minds of people who take the time to edit Wikipedia that is. So expect lots of pop […]

Posted 05 October 2007 § Internet § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – (I Want To Be A) Librarian (Sept 28, 2007)

Posted 29 September 2007 § Library § Main Page § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Library Science Jeopardy (September 14, 2007)

The interface could be a bit more automated but this is still a cool little web site to let you test your knowledge of various aspects of library science. (via LISNews)

Posted 14 September 2007 § Library § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Late Link – "Slam The Boards" Librarian Challenge (September 7, 2007)

Sorry for being late again this week – same “real world must take precedence sometimes” excuse as last week. That also means anybody reading this has a bit less notice that September 10 has been declared “Librarians Slam The Boards” day. Jessamyn West over at librarian.net has more details but basically, the idea is that […]

Posted 09 September 2007 § Library § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °