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AskMetafilter – One of My "Favourite" Sites

AskMetaFilter has a page which lists their all-time most “Favourited” questions (warning: do not click unless you have a  LOT of time to waste!)  Interesting that the most favourited question – “What Book Is The Single Best Introduction To Your Field For The Layperson” – has nearly twice as many favourites (~1141) than the next […]

Posted 05 November 2009 § List § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

What Technology Most Blows Your Mind?

A fun discussion on Reddit, even with 85% of the answers being computers, cell phones or airplanes. “Reaching the Moon was certainly a highlight for our civilization, but it was a singular accomplishment. The one technological thing that most blows my mind is the one which made that lunar landing possible, is the civilization's greatest […]

Posted 04 November 2009 § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – The Longest Poem in the World (October 30, 2009)

LongestPoemInTheWorld.com takes updates from Twitter's public feed to create a never-ending stream of rhyming couplets – strangely engrossing. 

Posted 30 October 2009 § FridayFunLink § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Google Maps Navigation, Google Music Search and a Google View of the Internet in Five Years

This will possibly be the end of GPS companies such as Garmin and Tom Tom (their stocks have already plummeted since the announcement):Google also announced that soon, any search for a song or band will result in a stream of the song being returned from various partners which will be able to be played in […]

Posted 30 October 2009 § Main Page § PopCulture § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – UTwo-be

Is there any other link today than the archive of the live U2 concert that was broadcast on YouTube last night?  I haven't seen any final figures yet but some media outlets were reporting that there was likely an audience of  hundreds of thousands of viewers watching live around the world and that figure will […]

Posted 26 October 2009 § LibrarySchool § Main Page § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Good-bye GeoCities

Today sort of disappeared on me so I don't have time to do the “Thoughts on the RPL Staff Conference” post I promised yesterday.  Instead, some discussion at MetaFilter about Geocities which officially goes offline tomorrow. 

Posted 26 October 2009 § Main Page ‡ Comments (6) °

Friday Fun Link – MailFreezr (Oct 23, 2009)

MailFreezr is a service which allows you to send an e-mail message to anyone anytime between 1-100 years from now (er, assuming the site's around then – which, even for it to be there in a year, I'd say the odds aren't that great!  Plus who knows what technology will do in the next 5, […]

Posted 24 October 2009 § FridayFunLink § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

World's Best Wired Cities

It's like looking into the future…

Posted 22 October 2009 § Main Page § Travel ‡ Comments (0) °

If It Was Good Enough For Genghis (And A List of Controversial Topics)

Shea posted a hilarious anti-breastfeeding article pro-Nestle Fake Milk Formula to her Facebook status with the usual heavy response to anytime this type of topic comes up – from both pro-breastfeeding moms and those who weren't able to or aren't as worked up about the prevalance of formula in our society.  It made me think, […]

Posted 16 October 2009 § Baby § List § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Really? Microsoft? Really???

The Reddit title for this video pretty much sums it up…uhm, anybody wanna come to a Win7 party at my house on uhm, how about February 30th?

Posted 24 September 2009 § Humour § Main Page § Video ‡ Comments (0) °