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Category Archives: Internet

Friday Fun Link – Read at Work (and an unrelated story of why Shea is a computer genius) (June 6, 2008)

Read at Work is a site from the New Zealand Book Council that allows you to read classic books, poetry, samples from selected New Zealand authors and more, online and formatted to look like either the Windows XP interface and Powerpoint presentations.  Very fun and cool (though I do not, of course, advocate performing non-work […]

Posted 07 June 2008 § Main Page § PopCulture § Shea § Technology § Travel § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Flickr Tag Galaxy (May 30, 2008)

Continuing last week's theme of Jason finding extremely exciting, anything that presents typical linear information in a cool, revolving circular format, I present to you: Tag Galaxy (via Reddit)

Posted 31 May 2008 § FridayFunLink § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Google X: A Tribute to OS X

Here's some love for you Mac people out there… What if Google modeled its interface on the OS-X one?  I like it and am thinking of changing my default search to this one.  Seriously.

Posted 30 May 2008 § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Myers-Briggs and Facebook: Match Made In Heaven?

Okay, maybe not but the Facebook MyType application is the first application I've installed on Facebook in a *long* time.I'm not sure what I got in high school but I think every time I've taken the test (official or an unofficial variation) since then, I've gotten ENFP.Here's a summary of what that personality type is […]

Posted 29 May 2008 § Main Page § Meme ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Kiva.org

Kiva is a web site that helps facilitate micro-credit loans to entrepreneurs around the world.   (As always, Wikipedia has more information about this organization if you're interested.) Shea got a Kiva gift certificate as a Mother's Day Gift and is helping two people:  Ruth Celenia Santana Morales who sells clothes and jewelery in the Dominican […]

Posted 27 May 2008 § Main Page § Politics § Shea ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Spectra Visual Newsreader (and Some Thoughts on Some Other, More World-Changing Future Technologies) (May 23, 2008)

Spectra is a new visual news reader from MSNBC.  I haven't played around with it much but it looks cool, mostly because the news spins in a circle instead of the old-fashioned columnar approach. Whoo-hooo!  On a much broader scale, I've recently come across a couple lists predicting of technologies that will change the world […]

Posted 24 May 2008 § FridayFunLink § List § Main Page § Technology ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged:

YouTomb: A Directory of Videos Taken Down From YouTube

“YouTomb is a research project by MIT Free Culture that tracks videos taken down from YouTube for alleged copyright violation.” (via Reddit)

Posted 21 May 2008 § Main Page § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – TimeTube: YouTube Timelines Mashup (May 9, 2008)

TimeTube is a site that creates a timeline of YouTube videos based on any keyword you enter and sorted based on the date they were added.  You can also view the results in a couple other modes – “list view”, “flipbook” and “map view” for videos that have been tagged with a location.  They have […]

Posted 10 May 2008 § FridayFunLink § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Wikipedia Goes To…Print?

Seems counter-intuitive but apparently a Slice of the German Wikipedia is to Be Captured on Paper. (via Sandra M.)

Posted 09 May 2008 § Main Page § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Canada Is Today's Frontier Upon Which The War of File-Sharing Legality Is Being Waged

I have to admit that I've been cheating on MetaFilter.  Once a site that I had to spend quality time with on a daily basis, it had slipped and been replaced in my affection by Reddit, a sexy little site which has a lot more technology news, a lot more politics, a lot more humour, […]

Posted 07 May 2008 § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °