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Year: 2015

  • Oglaf: Slogding

    Slodging



    Oglaf

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  • A library at the University of Oxford

    Did I mention that I work for the libraries of the University of Oxford? Here's a photo I took today. (a few more in the comments)

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  • If Google Glass etc. becomes mainstream, kids of the future won't understand why we used to turn off the minimap/HUD/etc. when taking screenshots in videogames.

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  • Image representing post: Quakers: The Faith Forgotten In Its Hometown [BBC News]

    Quakers: The Faith Forgotten In Its Hometown [BBC News]


    It was the faith of two US presidents and several prominent UK industrialists, yet the origins of the Quaker religion are little known today by people living in the English town where it began. However, a new heritage trail targeting the American tourist market is aiming to change that.
    In 1647, George Fox, a โ€ฆ

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  • I will answer all parts via SwiftKey without correcting anything, while entertaining a tusker. AMA!




    Just like it says! I'm looking after a toddler and I've got moments when I've got one hand few and cash type into my phone. But I'm going to type ask full speed and in nope going to correct and mistakes that come up as add result of my invertebrates autocorrect. AMA!


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  • bad.horse. You were all thinking it.

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  • Image representing post: Hi, /r/MegaLoungeAvapoet. I hid a picture from you!

    Hi, /r/MegaLoungeAvapoet. I hid a picture from you!

    One of Reddit's MegaLounges, access to which is gained by being gilded  in the prior MegaLounge (or /r/lounge itself, in the case of the firs t MegaLounge). For the last 5 years, it's been possible to buy "Reddit  Gold" subscriptions, and for most of that time it's been possible to  anonymously gift individual months of Reddit Gold to other users (know n as "gilding"), in acknowledgement of a contribution they've made on  the site. Having "Reddit Gold" grants you access to the official gold  subreddit /r/lounge; getting gilded while in /r/lounge gets you access  to the unofficial /r/MegaLounge, and so on. There are several dozen ' levels'. I'm pretty sure that an outside observer, given the advance k nowledge of this blog post, could easily tell when I'm in the process  of getting over an illness just by the food I eat. I'm pretty sure tha t I have a particular 'tell' in the foods I look for when I'm on the c usp of recovering from a cold, like now: or, I suppose, on those rare  ocassions that I'll have drunk enough to be suffering from a hangover.  Take this lunchtime, for example. I've been off work for the last cou ple of days, laid low by what seems to be the very same cold that I wa s sure I'd dodged when everybody else got it, last month (I blame Anna bel, the contagious little beast, who's particularly keen on shoving h er hands into people's mouths). Today I'm back on my feet, but working  from home: I skipped breakfast, but by lunchtime I felt able to face  some food, and quickly determined what it was that I really wanted: An  egg and cheese wafflestack. If you think it looks calorie-laden and d isgusting, then you're right: but you wouldn't be saying that if you w ere recovering from an illness! Egg & Cheese Wafflestack Serves: 1 unw ell-but-recovering person Preparation: 15 minutes Difficulty: if you c an't make this, get the hell out of the kitchen Ingredients 4 frozen p otato waffles. I'm using Birds Eye ones, but honestly, who can tell th e difference? ~ 30g mature cheddar cheese, grated or thinly sliced, br ought to room temperature so it melts quickly 2 eggs A little vegetabl e oil Tomato ketchup (alternatively, brown sauce works well) Method Gr ill the waffles in accordance with the instructions. Meanwhile, fry th e two eggs ("sunny side up": keep the yolk fluid). Assemble in stacks,  with each stack consisting of cheese sandwiched between two waffles,  topped with an egg and the ketchup. Serve immediately. Eat as quickly  as you dare. So now I'm sitting here eating the taste of delicious rec overy, generating 4096-bit strong probable prime numbers (like you do) , and reading the feedback on a browser plugin I released recently. An d every part of that is a huge improvement upon lying ill in bed. I sp ent last week in the French Alps with JTA, Ruth, Annabel, and some han gers-on. It was great to get out onto the snow again for some skiing a s well as some ski-based geocaching, but perhaps the most remarkable e vents of the trip happened not on the pistes but on an "afternoon off"  that I decided to take after a rather jarring 42km/h (26mph) faceplan t earlier in the day. A great thing about taking a GPSr for snowsports  is that you know exactly how fast you were going (my record is 101km/ h!) when you crash. Not to be deprived of the opportunity for some out doors, though, I decided to spend the afternoon hiking out to villaflo u, a geocache only about a kilometre and a half away from our chalet.  Well: a kilometre and a half as the crow flies: it was also some dista

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  • Happy Earth Day, /r/MegaEarth!

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  • Image representing post: EEBO-TCP Hackathon

    EEBO-TCP Hackathon

    Last month, Dan attended the EEBO-TCP hackathon, and worked alongside humanities researchers to collaborate on software that extracted previously unexplored data out of 25,000 recently-digitised 15th-17th century texts.

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  • TIL that the first ever speeding fine was given to Walter Arnold of Kent, UK, in January 1896. His speed: 8mph in a 2mph zone. He was caught by a policeman on a bicycle.

    Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, had the dubious honour of being the first person in Great Britain to be successfully charged with speeding on 28 January 1896. Travelling at approximately 8mph/12.87kph, he had exceeded the 2mph/3.22kph speed limit for towns. Fined one shilling and costs, Arnold had been caught by a policeman who had โ€ฆ

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  • The Story Museum's hosting an overnight "hack event" in June, on the theme of Alice In Wonderland

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  • TIL that the tea cozy was popularised by the Duchess of Bedford in 1840 as a way of extending the duration of the growing British tradition of "tea time".

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  • Image representing post: A long time ago, in a medieval manuscript far far away... a Yoda-lookalike was drawn... four centuries before George Lucas was born!

    A long time ago, in a medieval manuscript far far away... a Yoda-lookalike was drawn... four centuries before George Lucas was born!

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  • Yoda discovered in a medieval manuscript

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  • Reported GC54KVD Oxford Medical History #2: Grey matter needs maintenance

    This checkin to GC54KVD Oxford Medical History #2: Grey matter reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Cache is missing! I helped the CO hide this cache, and, following the recent spate of DNFs, decided to come check on it... It's definitely been muggled and needs replacement!

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