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Category Archives: Internet

Friday Fun Link – defaultfile.name YouTube Randomizer

This site, defaultfile.name, is fascinating – it looks through YouTube for random files that have been uploaded without the default filename given by the camera or smartphone (DNSC209, MVI753, IMG9903, etc.) being changed to something more descriptive and searchable. For that reason, most are fairly low view count videos, often quite short, and provide all […]

Posted 24 May 2019 § FridayFunLink § List § Randomness § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

20 Things Nobody Saw Coming in Avengers: Endgame

The best part of seeing a big tentpole movie on opening weekend is that you can go on the Internet again without fear of seeing SPOILERS:

Posted 28 April 2019 § Censorship § Meme § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – Online Apps as 80’s Gadgets

A designer reimagines how various popular web sites would look as 1980’s gadgets.

Posted 26 April 2019 § FridayFunLink § Humour § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Crash! My History With Technology’s Inevitable End

Had a scary moment this morning when my laptop wouldn’t charge and even crashed a couple times when I tried to get it working.  But luckily it appears that my charging block had simply stopped working and a new one seems to have things running smoothly again (considering I’m still running a 2011-era MacBook Pro […]

Posted 17 April 2019 § List § MemoryLane § Technology ‡ Comments (0) °

A Viral Proposal Video

Did I ever post this?  It’s a classic…  

Posted 03 April 2019 § Humour § Meme § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

List of Flags By Colour Combination (and the Story of One Man Who’s Edited 1/3 of Wikipedia Articles)

This is a pretty interesting Wikipedia article. Also, the news has picked up on the story of one guy who’s apparently edited 1/3 of Wikipedia’s millions of articles and created 35,000 original articles.

Posted 29 January 2019 § Canada § Jobs § List § Technology § UK § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

.@aoc_dances Is My New Favourite Twitter Account Today

So you may have heard that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had an “embarrassing” video of her dancing in a college video (which, in turn was a remake of an earlier mash-up) highlighted recently but that it didn’t go as well as the anonymous right-wing troll who tweeted it had hoped. Unsurprisingly, instead of embarrassment and scorn, […]

Posted 08 January 2019 § Humour § Meme § News § Politics § PopCulture § Technology § United States § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Friday Fun Link – Shit Fireplace

If you’re looking for an alternative to the ubiquitous yule log channels/videos at this time of year, try “Shit Fireplace” (and I’m proud to say the co-creator of these videos is a colleague at RPL!)  

Posted 21 December 2018 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Library § Meme § PopCulture § Randomness § Video § Work § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

The Five Year Old’s Guide to the Galaxy

Reddit has a sub-Reddit called /r/ExplainLikeImFive where the goal is to convey complex ideas in a way that even a child (or a typical Redditor?) can understand. Someone compiled some of the best explanations the site has provided in a single post.

Posted 26 October 2018 § FridayFunLink § List § PopCulture § Randomness § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

How To Make A Librarian Freak Out! @last.fm @deezer

I’ve been tracking my music listening habits online via last.fm since 2005. It’s not like I look at my last.fm account daily but tonight, I realised that last.fm had stopped scrobbling (that’s the term for when any site that I listen to music on – Deezer, YouTube, etc. – sending the name of the song […]

Posted 21 October 2018 § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: