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.@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, […]

Five Books That Explain Why The World Is Fucked (Uhm, Happy New Year?!?)

Let’s start the New Year off right – with a list of Five Books That Explain Why The World Is Fucked. (via Reddit) (Happy New Year?!?)

¶ Posted 01 January 2019 § Humour § List § News § Politics § PopCulture § Sad § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: health, history, science, weather

EA Sports NHL ’94 Is Twenty-Five Years Old!

The greatest hockey video game of all-time is 25 years old with a still active fan base. Here’s the 2017/2018 Stanley Cup final as seen through the lens of NHL ’94:

¶ Posted 28 October 2018 § Canada § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: hockey

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 § Internet § List § PopCulture § Randomness § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, history, science

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 § Internet § MemoryLane § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Brazilian Inmates Can Read Books To Shorten Their Sentences (Not So Much in The US)

This is a pretty cool, innovative program with a lot of potential to pay ongoing dividends. And of course, the US is doing the opposite with prisons in Pennsylvania where inmates are no longer being allowed any form of print book sent by family members or charities but they can buy overpriced, overly restricted ebooks, […]

¶ Posted 16 October 2018 § Censorship § Library § News § Politics § PopCulture § Sad § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, freedomtoreadweek, unitedstates

Friday Fun Link – Minimal Turing Test

In computer science, the Turing Test is intended to tell if you can differentiate between who is human and who is a computer programmed to model human-like conversation in a text exchange between the two. The Turing test, developed by Alan Turing in 1950, is a test of a machine’s ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, […]

¶ Posted 05 October 2018 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, language, philosophy

Inside A Google Data Center

¶ Posted 28 August 2018 § Internet § Jobs § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, economics, science

Owning People Online Is The Left’s Path To Victory

According to recent polling, a staggeringly small portion of the 22-to-45-year-old demographic watches cable news, and in fact almost 50 percent of young people do not watch traditional TV at all, instead opting to get their content from online streaming services, social media, and the like. I’ve been a big believer in the power of the […]