Month: March 2014
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/r/ReverseReverseGIF/. For when /r/ReverseGIF feels backwards to you.
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Sometimes when you reverse a reverse GIF, what you get still looks backwards.
[this image was lost when minus.com shut down]
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Motorcycle police chase black athlete out of town, into lake
AltRace
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Children's book about a kid and an alien represented by an asterisk (*)
I read a book as a child, probably in the early 1990s, whose story sick with me but which I haven't been able to find since. The plot goes thusly: a child plays a semi text-based video game in which he controls a character (represented by an asterisk), but it later becomes apparent that … -
Surprises, e.g. a Brother-in-Law
While on the way to a stag night in Edinburgh, Dan stops to perform magic in Preston and is surprised to discover that his sister has secretly gotten married.
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@TheGodzillaGirl @bornvulcan #am #i #doing #this #right #hashtag #questionmark
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@mccarthy_liz on computers not doing what she expected: "I wish that computer weren't so inanimate... and could feel shame."
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The Beauty in Mathematics
What is the connection between Moby Dick, accurate clocks, ski-jumps, roller coasters and cog wheels?
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Show me 'your penis'
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Cosmo - Building A Watercooled PC (Part 1)
Mostly-irrationally, Dan decides that it's time to build a new computer, and sets out to make a souped-up, liquid-cooled monster of a machine. This is the first part of that story.
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Behind the Scenes: Weston Library time-lapse
If the different land uses of the UK were divided up into their percentage-ratio blocks, what would a 100-second tour of the country (with each second covering a single percent of the land usage) look like?
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TIL that the "holes" in Swiss cheese were, until recently, seen as a sign of imperfection and something cheesemakers tried to avoid
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Three types of bacteria are used in the production of Emmental: Streptococcus thermophilus, Lactobacillus helveticus, and Propionibacterium freudenreichii. Historically, the holes were a sign of imperfection, and until modern times, cheese makers would try to avoid them. Emmental cheese is used in a variety of dishes, particularly in gratins, and fondue, where it is mixed … -
I thought that I was already playing in HD, but now they want to sell me this add-on pack to give me HD vision. What gives?
Alt"HD Vision" glasses