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Friday Fun Link – How Long Would It Take To Hack Your Password?

You don’t have to submit your password – just type it into the box on this site and it will tell you how long it would take a computer to guess it. If you’re nervous about testing your own passwords, use something similar eg. instead of “password”, use “massward” or whatever.)

¶ Posted 30 April 2021 § FridayFunLink § Internet § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: language

Reasons To Go Back to School / Reasons Not To Go Back To School

Regina Public Schools to return to in-class learning on May 3, 2021. https://t.co/YZayV5QOJv pic.twitter.com/OHaAUGGPED — Regina Public Schools (@RegPublicSchool) April 26, 2021 Regina Public Schools has announced that students will return to school on May 3 and there is lots of debate on social media and elsewhere about the decision. Five Reasons It’s Good […]

¶ Posted 28 April 2021 § List § News § Pace § Politics § Sasha ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: Covid, health, science

Friday Fun Link – The Jeopardy Archive

A comprehensive archive of every question ever in the history of Jeopardy is nerd-paradise. (Librarians are 14th in lifetime winnings by career-type though I’d like to see this graph on a per capita basis too.)

¶ Posted 16 April 2021 § FridayFunLink § Jobs § Library § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Randomness § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: language, television

Friday Fun Link – The Big Library: Books About Basic Income

This idea is growing in awareness and after the rush to create CERB a year ago, more and more people are seeing the benefit of some form of a universal guaranteed income. This is a great list of books to learn more about different aspects of the idea.

¶ Posted 09 April 2021 § Jobs § Library § News § Politics § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: book, Covid, economics, health, history

Secular Sunday – The Cost of Religion in Canada

A nice confluence of events with it being Easter, me completing my taxes, and the Centre for Inquiry Canada (CFIC) releasing a report on the status of churches as charities.

¶ Posted 04 April 2021 § Canada § Infographic § Politics § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: atheism, economics, history, science

Friday Fun Link – Apple’s M1 Chip

The announcement of the new Apple M1 chip last fall finally got me to make the leap from using a ~2012-era MacBook Pro which was at the point that it was basically held together with digital duct tape and prayers to buying a new MacBook Air which arrived this week. I’ll likely share some expanded […]

¶ Posted 26 March 2021 § Internet § MemoryLane § News § PopCulture § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, language, science, youtube