As September comes to a close, it’s a good time to point out that Wikipedia has an option to view the Top 100 viewed pages of every month. In September 2006, sex-related pages (List of Sexual Positions, Sex, Pornography) compete with popular media stories (Steve “Crocodile Hunter” Irwin, Dawson College Shootings) and more general topics […]
The Faces of YouTube – heartwarming, melancholy, profound, beautiful all at once. (via MetaFilter)
I know this is my second Google-related FFL in a row but this one’s worth it. Google has partnered with the American Library Association to create a special page in honour of Banned Books Week (Sept 23-30). (This is the equivalent of Freedom to Read Week in Canada which happens during the last week of […]
Google Accessible Search is “an early Google Labs product designed to identify and prioritize search results that are more easily usable by blind and visually impaired users. Regular Google search helps you find a set of documents that is most relevant to your tasks. Accessible Search goes one step further by helping you find the […]
For anybody who's new to this blog, the “Friday Fun Link” is something that I've been doing in one form or another since the late 1990's. It began when I compiled the Saskatchewan Publisher's Group's semi-monthly electronic newsletter, SaskF@cts. I added a section to highlight interesting, relevant or unique web sites for our members. When […]
Hot Library Smut isn’t what it sounds like and is worth a look. (Safe For Work – unless you’re not allowed to surf the Internet at work at all of course) (via MetaFilter)
As a follow-up to last week’s FFL about Book Mooch, here’s a link to Book Thing, a non-profit organization in Baltimore which offers all of the books it has in stock for free to local citizens.
Book Mooch is a new web site which helps facilitate the exchange of used books you no longer need for books you really want, all for the cost of postage. (via MetaFilter)
A writer in the UK has released Abracadabra!, a free e-book about the Beatles’ “Revolver” album on the 40th anniversary of that LP being released. If you’re more interested in the public sharing of information than the Beatles, you might also want to check out “In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law” […]
This is about as “fun” as the Friday Fun Links get… Carl Monday, an investigative reporter at a TV station in Cleveland recently did an extremely sensationalistic sweeps-week sting operation (link to video clip) where he used a hidden camera to catch a twenty-something man masturbating at the local public library on a public access […]
