Month: February 2013
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Hello 2013: Goodbye 2012
In a belated blog post, Dan looks back on 2012, and describes it as one of the hardest years of his life.
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TIL that the most uncontacted people in the world, the Sentinelese, live in a hunter-gatherer society that isn't even known to make fire.
The Sentinelese (also called the Sentineli or North Sentinel Islanders) are the indigenous people of North Sentinel Island in the Andaman Islands of India. One of the Andamanese people, they resist contact with the outside world. They are one of the uncontacted peoples, although like all of today’s so-called uncontacted people they have a history …
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Mikey: the awesome cow who thinks she's a dog [x-post from /r/pics]
AltCow brought up as a dog
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Ruth skiing at Les Gets
My partner Ruth skis down a few blue runs in Les Gets, in the Portes des Soleil region of the French Alps. And falls over.
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Memo: when using wget to mirror a website, remember to set the bounds. Last night, I accidentally downloaded 1769 websites.