November 2014 Archives

Dan Q found GLG58G7G Thrupp wander #3

This checkin to GLG58G7G Thrupp wander #3 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.

Found while out on a walk with fleeblewidget and her daughter. Easy find, but this year’s growth made it a little challenging to extract from its hiding place! TFTC.

At 4:39pm I got an email to say that the 4:30pm bus had been cancelled. I’d left to catch the bus at 4:20pm.

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Hey, decadeclub: you know what happened an actual decade ago?

This self-post was originally posted to /r/decadeclub. See more things from Dan's Reddit account.

Ten years ago, this week:

Half-Life 2 was released, over a year behind schedule. Delays had been blamed on the theft of source code from Valve’s network during a hack attack, leading to many in the community asking “don’t they have backups?”
Yasser Arafat died at the age of 75, after a short illness and coma, while functionally confined to his compound by the Israeli army. He’d won the Nobel Peace Prize ten years earlier.
NASA’s experimental X-43A scramjet reached a speed of 7,000 mph, almost ten times the speed of sound. News coverage at the time talked about the possibility of flying to the other side of the world in about 4 hours, but scramjet technology is still a long way from being stable or safe enough for mainstream use.

What do you remember from a decade ago?

A huggy home run.

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Dan Q posted a note for GC4Z3RZ Boundary Brook: Billy Goats Gruff

This checkin to GC4Z3RZ Boundary Brook: Billy Goats Gruff reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.

Just passing by, dropped off a travel bug.

Going to a memorial service today? Help update the national record of your war memorial.

This self-post was originally posted to /r/unitedkingdom. See more things from Dan's Reddit account.

Since 1989, the War Memorials Archive has been trying to keep an up-to-date database for everybody to read, showing the location of every war memorial in the UK as well of details of the dead commemorated there. But their records are incomplete, and sadly many memorials (especially rural ones) are degrading: someday the information on them may be lost.

You can help, and it’s really easy. First, find your nearest local war memorial at http://www.ukniwm.org.uk/server/show/nav.23 – just search in your town or village and you’ll find one. See if it appears and if the information is complete: some records barely show that the memorial is there, others have full lists of names, but many are in-between, merely listing which wars are represented.

Then head out to the memorial and take photos of all sides of it, close enough that you can read all of the text. In the top right corner of the page about your town’s memorial, there’s a link to provide updated information: just type in the new details that you found and send it off. Or, if your memorial wasn’t in the database at all, send them an email.

This Remembrance Sunday you can do more for the memory of those killed in war by helping future generations remember and research, too. Thanks for your help.

“The Law You Won’t Be Told” – jury nullification explained [4:30]

This link was originally posted to /r/juryduty. See more things from Dan's Reddit account.

The original link was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqH_Y1TupoQ

Map of the Lounges, version 2 (moderately censored edition) [description/history in comments]

This link was originally posted to /r/MegaMegaMegaLounge. See more things from Dan's Reddit account.

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[this post was originally made to a private subreddit; versions of it posted to more-exclusive private subreddits are not replicated on this blog]

If you add this subreddit to a multireddit, make sure that multireddit is private!

This self-post was originally posted to /r/MegaLoungeGreypo. See more things from Dan's Reddit account.

[originally posted to a private subreddit]

I had a public “megalounges” multireddit that I made available to anybody in the megalounges who wanted a starting point to make a convenient multireddit list. But if I’d have put this subreddit into that list, then it could give away the identity of this “final” subreddit, so I’ve made the multireddit private.

If you use a “megalounges” multireddit and you’re putting this lounge into it, don’t forget to make that multireddit private too!

Month: November 2014