There’s nothing fun about this week’s post but it’ll likely get your blood boiling. A recent MetaFilter post explained how Circuit City was losing too much money so their brilliant idea to improve the bottom line was to fire their top earning employees (3400 of them) and then offer to re-hire them at a lower […]
LoudIt.org offers free MP3 audio books of classic works that you can download or read long with onscreen. (via MetaFilter)
I was recently forwarded an e-mail that mentioned how MIT is offering a variety of free University courses that cover almost their entire curriculum. This e-mail reminded me of a MetaFilter thread I saw a few weeks ago (and I think had even bookmarked into my “Potential FFL’s” folder) that mentions not only the MIT […]
Scribd is a new site attempting to be the “YouTube of documents.” It currently accepts .doc, .ppt, .txt, .pdf, .xls, .ps, .lit, .cia and .nhl file formats (just seeing if you’re paying attention on those last two!) Right now, the site seems to be a mix of pirated e-books (there’s that YouTube connection!) and documents […]
The son of conservative icon, Phyllis Schlafly, Andrew Schlafly has set-up a conservative alternative to the “liberal-biased” Wikipedia called “Conservapedia“. (via MetaFilter which includes some of the funnier excerpts from the site.)
There are lots of lists of best opening and closing lines/paragraphs of novels. But how about a list of best opening paragraphs from academic titles? (via MetaFilter which, as always, has some good discussion, other suggestions and related links) Here’s a bonus FFL – “Virus“, a fun little Flash game that’s sort of like a […]
I said last week that I love getting something in my in-box on Friday morning that I can turn around and use as a Friday Fun Link later that same day. (In fact, feel free to e-mail me if you know a site that is funny, unique or thought-provoking. I can’t guarantee I’ll use it […]
Sometimes an idea for the day’s FFL pops right in your in-box on a Friday morning. Here’s something fellow Librarian Activist editor, David Jackson, sent me today. “I Bless The Rains Down in Africa” is an article from music web site Pitchfork, comparing the presence of information about Africa with information about the Star Wars […]
DoTheRightThing.com is a new web site that’s similar to Digg in that users submit stories and others vote the stories up or down. But unlike Digg, where the criteria for voting up or down a story are fairly diverse, this site asks for you to vote based on the positive or negative impact the story […]
Beyond the irony of that I’m writing about a game called “Homelessness: It’s No Game”, there are other problems with this Flash project. But before I get to that, here’s some background from the designer: “I created this game for a graduate-level course on game design I took at the School of Interactive Arts and […]
