Year: 2013
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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.
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Silly cow. You do not belong here.
AltCow and dolphin
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MS Paint sloth [x-post from /r/funny]
AltMS Paint sloth
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[x-post] "The northen Hawk Owl is an explosive killer, and extremely hard to capture. 1/2000 of a second shutter speed and 5 hours in -22 Celsius got me the shot :)"
AltSuperb owl
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My first thoughts on Outside.
I've been playing for a little while now, and here's my thoughts so far:
I love the open world aspects of the game; I've never played anything where there's been quite so much freedom (especially when you're just starting out). It's taken a while to get used to the areas which are only … -
Counterfeit Monkey
Earlier this year, Dan played Emily Short's latest interactive fiction game, Counterfeit Monkey, and decided that it was among the best games of its type that he's played in years. You should play it, too.
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Yesterday's jaunt with @BrynS wasn't QUITE my fill of comedy. So tonight, I'm off to the @CamdenHead in Angel for their open mic night.
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After a wonderful night of comedy with @BrynS, I'm back in the office (in the building that caught fire), now powered by a huge generator.
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Decamped to a number of venues around East London. The team I've been working with and I are in the basement of a nearby cafe!
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Still no power at @SquizUK following yesterday's fire. Just waiting for more people to arrive so we can work out where we're working today.
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Expected a gimmick. Expected it to be about the food. But it's not. It's about so much more than that. Would eat here again.
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Just came out of Dans Le Noir, the restaurant where you eat mystery food in the dark, and... OMG.