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Year: 2018

  • Isochronic map of world travel from London in 1914 and 2016.

    A 2016 version of the 1914 Isochronic London/World travel times map



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    • posted 28 October, 2018
  • Forza Horizon 4

    Forza Horizon 4 is really very British



    There is a phenomenon of culture that I’m not convinced has a name. Living in the UK, the vast, vast majority of the media I consume is from the US. And nearly always has been. While television was more localised, all my life the films and games (and indeed an awful lot of the TV) …

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    • posted 25 October, 2018
  • Daily Mirror tweet claiming that "winter vagina" is a thing, and how to deal with it.

    It's time to winterize your vagina

    ...



    Breakout your plug-in vibrator and don’t forget the snow stud sheath. No battery-powered device can plow through vaginal snow pack. You need alternating current to warm that shit up after a long day of sitting naked outside filling your vagina with snow and ice. Don’t get clitoral anti freeze though, that crap stings like a …

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    • posted 25 October, 2018
  • Escape from Spiderhead

    “Drip on?” Abnesti said over the P.A.

    “What’s in it?” I said.

    “Hilarious,” he said.

    “Acknowledge,” I said.

    Abnesti used his remote. My MobiPak™ whirred. Soon the Interior Garden looked really nice. Everything seemed super-clear.

    I said out loud, as I was supposed to, what I was feeling.

    “Garden looks nice,” I said. “Super-clear.”

    Abnesti said, “Jeff, how about we pep up …

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    • posted 23 October, 2018
  • SQLite Code Of Ethics (formerly Code of Conduct)

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    Attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good you see in yourself.
    Recognize always that evil is your own doing, and to impute it to yourself.
    Fear the Day of Judgment.
    Be in dread of hell.

    ...

    SQLite
    In an age when more and more open-source projects are …

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    • posted 23 October, 2018
  • Rehabilitating Google AMP: My failed attempt




    This article is a follow-up to my article “Why Google AMP is a threat to the Open Web”. In the comments of that article I promised I’d soon provide a follow-up, and for reasons I’ll get into, that has not been possible until now – but now I’m finally providing it.




    Back in …

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    • posted 22 October, 2018
  • #youbroketheinternet So We Got Tracked Anyway


    Did you install EFF's brilliant Privacy Badger or any other smart HTTP Cookie management tool? Or did you simply pick the privacy preference in your browser that ignores all third-party cookies? Did many websites you visit annoy you with permission-to-use-cookies pop-ups because of European legislation?
    Guess what, it's all been useless.
    Hamburg university researchers …

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    • posted 22 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 …

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    • 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 ?— we made a visual tool for you. Find it here.


    Introduction
    During this year’s Frontend Conference Zurich Rachel Andrew talked about Unlocking the Power of CSS Grid Layout. At the end …

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    • 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...

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    • 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.

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  • Letter of Recommendation: Escape Rooms

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    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 …

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    • 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 …

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    • 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. …

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    • 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!

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    • posted 19 October, 2018

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