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Month: October 2018

  • SHE BON : Sensing the Sensual



    ROBOHEMIAN! [YouTube]
    I don't know if this is genius or insanity, but either way it's pretty remarkable. Lost my shit at "pop girl". Lost it again at "I can poke the nipple".

    It takes a true engineer to think to themselves, "Hey, I wonder if I could use technology to tell me when I'm feeling โ€ฆ

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    • Repost
    • posted 22 October, 2018
  • Image representing post: CSS Border-Radius Can Do That? | IO 9elements

    CSS Border-Radius Can Do That? | IO 9elements

    TL/DR: When you use eight values specifying border-radius in CSS, you can create organic looking shapes. WOW. No time to read it all ?โ€” we made a visual tool for you. Find it here.


    Introduction
    During this yearโ€™s Frontend Conference Zurich Rachel Andrew talked about Unlocking the Power of CSS Grid Layout. At the end โ€ฆ

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    • Repost
    • posted 22 October, 2018
  • Map showing the 326 UK constituencies with the smallest electorate size

    How Few Votes Can Win a UK General Election?

    What's the minimum number of votes a party can get and still win a UK general election? Let's try to find an answer...

    Read more - about 3 minutes (503 words)

    • Article
    • posted 21 October, 2018
  • Image representing post: JACOB PRETENDS TO BE STRAIGHT... | The Trueman Show! Ep 13

    JACOB PRETENDS TO BE STRAIGHT... | The Trueman Show! Ep 13



    Fratocrats
    The Fratocrats at their funniest.

    Read more - about 1 minutes (6 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 21 October, 2018
  • Letter of Recommendation: Escape Rooms

    ...

    Think of all the ways you already insert pleasurable, circumscribed bursts of risk into your life. Maybe you watch horror movies, consume hot sauce, jaywalk. Maybe you pursue casual sex or steal Splenda packets from Starbucks or treat the speed limit as a cute suggestion. An escape game is like stacking these things atop one โ€ฆ

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    • Repost
    • posted 20 October, 2018
  • Performed maintenance for GC7R0HB The Fairy Elevator

    This checkin to GC7R0HB The Fairy Elevator reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Sorry it took me so long to get out here to check up on this cache; geocaching.com started disbelieving that my email address was valid and stopped sending me watchlist notifications for a while! Looks like the โ€ฆ

    Read more (107 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GC7R0HB
    • posted 20 October, 2018
  • Image representing post: Note #11210

    Notes from #musetech18 presentations (with a strong "collaboration" theme). Note that these are "live notes" first-and-foremost for my own use and so are probably full of typos. Sorry.

    Matt Locke (StoryThings, @matlocke):

    Over the last 100 years, proportional total advertising revenue has been stolen from newspapers by radio, then television: scheduled media that is experienced simultaneously. โ€ฆ

    Read more - about 7 minutes (1631 words)

    • Note
    • 13 comments
    • posted 19 October, 2018
  • Found GC34XPT Northumberland Avenue

    This checkin to GC34XPT Northumberland Avenue reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Quick find with a coworker on a lunch break from an event at the National Gallery. TFTC!

    Read more - about 1 minutes (17 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GC34XPT
    • posted 19 October, 2018
  • Dan at the Fourth Plinth

    Found GC7B73B Virtual Reward : The Fourth Plinth

    This checkin to GC7B73B Virtual Reward : The Fourth Plinth reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. An easy find while grabbing the (much harder, in account of muggles!) physical cache nearby. Message to CO to follow. TFTC!

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    • Checkin
    • to GC7B73B
    • posted 19 October, 2018
  • Found GC5A7DW Trafalgar Square

    This checkin to GC5A7DW Trafalgar Square reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Fantastic hide! Stood around looking at my phone for a bit while some pot-smoking workmen nearby eyed me suspiciously, but eventually they moved away and I had a moment to retrieve the cache. Glad I came first thing โ€ฆ

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    • Checkin
    • to GC5A7DW
    • posted 19 October, 2018
  • Now that Google+ has been shuttered, I should air my dirty laundry...

    Now that Google+ has been shuttered, I should air my dirty laundry on how awful the project and exec team was.

    I'm still pissed about the bait and switch they pulled by telling me I'd be working on Chrome, then putting me on this god forsaken piece of shit on day one.

    This will be a super โ€ฆ

    Read more - about 3 minutes (705 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 18 October, 2018
  • New South Wales Government Railways' AD60-class "6040", with mystery pipes highlighted

    Mystery Pipe

    There's a strange pipe on this steam locomotive. Can you guess what it's for?

    Read more - about 6 minutes (1264 words)

    • Article
    • 1 comment
    • posted 18 October, 2018
  • Dan and two statue-people holding a globe

    Found OK0300 M-libs12L

    This checkin to OK0300 M-libs12L reflects an opencache.uk log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Barely a stone's throw from my last waypoint: I'm spending more time getting selfies than I am walking about! TFTC.

    Read more - about 1 minutes (20 words)

    • Checkin
    • to OK0300
    • posted 16 October, 2018
  • Dan at a statue of a woman with children

    Found OK02FF M-libs 12B

    This checkin to OK02FF M-libs 12B reflects an opencache.uk log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. I can't help but notice that this "modern missus" is quite-literally being held back by a chain (of oppression?). Not sure that's what the artist intended or just an unfortunate side-effect of the way it's been installed, though!
    โ€ฆ

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    • Checkin
    • to OK02FF
    • posted 16 October, 2018
  • GPS showing time and coordinates

    Note OK02FB M-libs12K

    This checkin to OK02FB M-libs12K reflects an opencache.uk log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Coordinates look off, to me. I've sampled at N 52ยฐ 01.500', W 000ยฐ 42.440', which looks more accurate to me.

    Read more - about 1 minutes (18 words)

    • Checkin
    • to OK02FB
    • posted 16 October, 2018

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