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Month: May 2017

  • Digest for May 2017

    Summary
    This month I shared a story about how playing with our toddler forced upon me a new way of thinking about my grief over my dad's death and raved against AMP, Google's poisonous new Web-ish technology.

    I reshared posts about rule-based password security validation and disallowing the pasting of passwords into forms. I also shared …

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    • Collection
    • posted 31 May, 2017
  • SMBC: A Talk

    Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal



    Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 26 May, 2017
  • Annabel plays-dead after "falling off a mountain".

    Playing Dead - Toddlers Gone Weird

    At the request of a toddler, Dan spends an afternoon repeatedly re-enacting the circumstances of his father's death.

    Read more - about 4 minutes (726 words)

    • Article
    • 4 comments
    • posted 26 May, 2017
  • Password Rules Are Bullshit

    Of the many, many, many bad things about passwords, you know what the worst is? Password rules.

    If we don't solve the password problem for users in my lifetime I am gonna haunt you from beyond the grave as a ghost pic.twitter.com/Tf9EnwgoZv

    β€” Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror) August 11, 2015
    Let this pledge be duly …

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 24 May, 2017
  • Emma: You Should've Asked

    You should've asked



    Emma

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 24 May, 2017
  • Channelate: Is This Your Card?

    Is this your card?



    Ryan

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 24 May, 2017
  • Channelate: Safe Now

    Safe now



    Ryan

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 24 May, 2017
  • Voronoi Diagrams

    Imagine I’m in a desert, and there are two wells where I can obtain water. If I want to go to the nearest well, which well do I visit? Clearly, it depends one where I am standing. It’s possible to draw a line dividing the desert. To the β€˜left’ of the line, it’s nearer to …

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 22 May, 2017
  • Feminist Freqyency: The Unmanning Of Trump

    The FREQ Show: 00.02 The Unmanning of Trump



    Feminist Frequency

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 22 May, 2017
  • Image representing post: Miniatur Wunderland - world's largest model railway

    Miniatur Wunderland - world's largest model railway



    Miniatur Wunderland

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 22 May, 2017
  • Image representing post: AMP Is Poisonous

    AMP Is Poisonous

    AMP, Google's technology that tries to make the mobile web faster by giving Google a monopoly over it, is fucking poisonous and it destroys everything that makes the Web great. Reject AMP!

    Read more - about 3 minutes (666 words)

    • Article
    • 4 comments
    • posted 19 May, 2017
  • Optipess: The Anti-Vaxx Vaccine

    The Anti-Vaxx Vaccine



    Kristian

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 18 May, 2017
  • Optipess: Climate Change Was A Hoax

    Climate Change Was a Hoax!



    Optipess

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 18 May, 2017
  • Image representing post: I'm Being Harassed

    I'm Being Harassed



    Dr. Lindsey Doe (Sexplanations)

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    • posted 18 May, 2017
  • XKCD: Random Obsessions

    Random Obsessions



    XKCD

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    • posted 18 May, 2017

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