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Friday Fun Link – How Well Can You Remember Colours?

You probably think you know and recognize colours. But in terms of actually remembering them, turns out humans aren’t really great at it. This site lets you test your ability to remember a specific shade of a random colour by flashing a certain colour for a brief time then asking you to pinpoint it on […]

¶ Posted 04 April 2026 § Family § FridayFunLink § Meme ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: health, science

Friday Fun Link – A $2.5 Billion Robot, Designed To Function on Mars For Two Years, Is Still Working 13 Years Later!

A $2.5 billion robot has been alone on another planet for 13 years and is still doing science. The scale of that sentence gets worse the longer you think about it. Curiosity landed in August 2012. Obama was president. Instagram had 80 million users. The iPhone 5 hadn’t shipped… https://t.co/AzXQenKDnH — Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta) March […]

¶ Posted 27 March 2026 § FridayFunLink § Internet § MemoryLane § News § Technology § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, education, science

Alex Honnold’s Best Moments From #SkyscraperLive

I watched this after it was initially broadcast so I’d heard he makes it to the top of the building successfully. I still nearly shit myself watching – vertigo, worrying about a man falling to his death but also stunned at what human beings are capable of.

¶ Posted 27 January 2026 § Jobs § News § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: history, television

Secular Sunday – Carl Sagan on The Earth From Space

30 years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took an image of our home planet from 6.4 billion kilometers away. Carl Sagan eloquently described what that image meant for humanity. pic.twitter.com/N1WRuuoTPr — Prof. Carl Sagan (@ProfCarlSagan) December 29, 2025

¶ Posted 04 January 2026 § SecularSunday § Wisdom ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: education, science

Music Monday – “Take me to the place where you go/Where nobody knows/If it’s night or day/Please don’t put your life in the hands/Of a rock ‘n’ roll band/Who’ll throw it all away.”

“(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?” was released thirty years ago this week and after years of acrimony, Oasis is in the middle of a massive reunion tour with rumours that it’s going to be extended into 2026. One of the major highlights of my entire life was being in England in fall 1995 during the […]

¶ Posted 29 September 2025 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § News § PopCulture § Travel § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: music

Friday Fun Link – AI Video Is Unreal

Apparently right now, each AI video takes the equivalent energy to running a microwave for an hour. But when the world melts, at least we’ll have a bunch of deep fakes to think of… We are cooked. Google Veo 3 just broke the internet. 10 wild examples 1. Nothing is real anymorepic.twitter.com/IZdIinReNk — Md Riyazuddin […]