Month: November 2017
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Digest for November 2017
Summary
This month I attended a festive breadmaking workshop and I wrote about how I discovered that a Turkish university's libraries stole the website of the University of Oxford's and confronted them about it. I shared Elena Filatova's latest video of her explorations of the Chernobyl exclusion zone, an article on the strange appeal of … -
Ghost town 13. Night ride through the dead zone
Elena Filatova
If you've not come across her before: Elena Filatova is a Ukranian woman who periodically motorcycles through the Chernobyl exclusion zone, recording her progress and filming/photographing what she sees on her adventures. I bought her photobook the other year and I've particularly enjoyed her videos ever since. Worth a look. -
Digital Resource Lifespan
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Diary
The time capsule was buried in a secluded square in Murmansk in 1967 on the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Inside was a message dedicated to the citizens of the Communist future. At short notice, the authorities brought forward the capsule’s exhumation by ten days, to coincide with the city’s … -
Jogging from the Perspective of Animals
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Interdimensional Cable
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Enabling IPv6 Support in nginx
This is going to be a really short post, but for someone it could save an hour of life.
So, you’ve nothing to do and you’ve decided to play around with IPv6 or maybe you’re happened to be an administrator of a web service that needs to support IPv6 connectivity and you need to make your … -
Investigating a possible new bug in @firefox 57: after installing the service worker, going to an uncached page on a site like adactio.com (@adactio), danq.me, or 3r.org.uk results in a "NetworkError" and the offline page, even though the connection is fine...
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When One Library Steals From Another
What happens when a university library completely rips-off the web design of a different university's library service?
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Bread Winner
Ruth and Dan go to a Festive Bread Workshop and spend a satisfying but exhausting day practising making five different kinds of bread.
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New Tesla charging stations could compete with Starbucks
As Tesla expands its Supercharger network, the automaker intends to up its game, building higher-end, retail-rich locations that CEO Elon Musk has called "Mega Superchargers" but that we'll call just Megachargers.
CEO Elon Musk has speculatively described them as "like really big supercharging locations with a bunch of amenities," complete with "great restrooms, great food, amenities" … -
Bat Out Of Hell At 40: What The Hell Explains Its Appeal?
Of life’s great mysteries, surely among the most impenetrable is how Bat Out of Hell, Meat Loaf’s adolescent wet dream of an album that was released forty years ago today [October 21, 1977], came to be one of the best-selling albums in the history of the record industry, cracking the top five in some rankings, … -
Male incompetence is a subtle form of misogyny
Have you ever dated a man who ‘can’t cook’?
Do you know a guy who’s rubbish at cleaning or any other kind of domestic chore?
Of course, you do.
It might not be their fault; many men are raised in traditional families where women do all the household tasks, ironing their little prince’s pants and serving up regular, … -
My Sammelband has Frisket-Bite: A Short Glossary of Delightful Library Terms
Two weeks ago I asked Twitter if anyone had favourite obscure and/or delightful library or archival words. Here are some of the best replies:
Tête-bêche: From philately, meaning printed upside down or sideways relative to another. (Tara Robertson)
Respect des fonds: A principle in archival theory that proposes to group collections of … -
Why BoJack Horseman's Representation of Asexuality is Important
Netflix’s BoJack Horseman was quickly put on many people’s radars when the newest season released in September addressed asexuality. During the new season, Todd Chavez explicitly comes out to BoJack saying that he is asexual. As someone who is asexual, this representation means a lot to me. Not only am I actually being represented, but …