Year: 2018
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On This Day In 2005
On this day in 2005 Paul made the Internet a fraction of a percent more-weird by cooking and eating a "Birmingham Egg". Dan's just resurrected the web page about it. You know: for posterity.
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Violin Plots
XKCD
Is that supposed to be a flower or... OHHHH! This is a question I've asked before... -
Review of Chalet d'Or
This review of Chalet d'Or originally appeared on Google Maps. See more reviews by Dan. Chalet d'Or, La Joyere, BP 19, 74450 Le Grand-Bornand, France. Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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Found GLV85XH3 ??Le Sentier de la forêt?? : LA MADONE
This checkin to GLV85XH3 ??Le Sentier de la forêt?? : LA MADONE reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Salutations d'Angleterre.
On a skiing holiday I took a day to go geocaching. This was my third find. Wonderful location, although I came (on foot) from the top and down rather than the … -
Found GLV85X2Z EABDG : Margaret la reine de fer
This checkin to GLV85X2Z EABDG : Margaret la reine de fer reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Salutations d'Angleterre.
On a skiing holiday I took a day to go geocaching. This was my second find. Shopkeeper was looking strangely at me through the window so I pretended to be interested in … -
Found GLV85W40 LA MADONE DU GRAND BO !
This checkin to GLV85W40 LA MADONE DU GRAND BO ! reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. AltA geocache held by Dan, wearing a snow hat. AltA geocache held by Dan, wearing a snow hat. Salutations d'Angleterre.
On a skiing holiday I took a day to go geocaching. This was my first … -
Couldn't find GC629TH EABDG : La vache qui tourne dans le Tour de France
This checkin to GC629TH EABDG : La vache qui tourne dans le Tour de France reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Salutations d'Angleterre.
On a skiing holiday I took a day to go geocaching. Even with the hint, unable to find this cache: suspect it must be buried under … -
Review of Tower of the Five Orders
This review of Tower of the Five Orders originally appeared on Google Maps. See more reviews by Dan. Tower of the Five Orders, Oxford OX1 3BW, United Kingdom. Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This iconic Oxford landmark is named for the architectural characteristics of each of its five floors. Each exhibits a different order - or "style" - …
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Review of Bodleian Library Café
This review of Bodleian Library Café originally appeared on Google Maps. See more reviews by Dan. Bodleian Library Café, Weston Library, Broad St, Oxford OX1 3BG, United Kingdom. Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Nice cakes and large mugs of hot drinks in the fabulous Blackwell Hall. Beware the "no laptops" policy in the afternoon, though: they're militant about …
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Neural nets respond to pranks like children do
There's a lot of fun to be had in "pranking" image-recognising neural nets with unusual photos. But the ways in which they fail might be a clue about how young humans learn language, too.
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Lure
http://buttersafe.com/2018/03/01/lure/ (buttersafe.com)
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Dwitter
Dwitter is a community of <canvas> artists who write Javascript programs of no more than 140 characters to produce beautiful graphical output. Some favourites: Bluer waves, d/3697, d/4388. If the demoscene were invented today, this is what it might look like. -
Visualisation of bike rides around Tampa, Florida
A visualisation of bike rides around Tampa, Florida, taken from the GPS logs of bike-sharing scheme Coast Bikes' vehicles. -
Ride the World's Longest Zipline in the UAE
YouTube (youtube.com)
National Geographic
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Games to Play With Your Child in Which You Barely Have to Move or Talk
Games to Play With Your Child in Which You Barely Have to Move or Talk by by Raquel D'Apice (The Ugly Volvo) I see a lot of ideas online for things to do with your child, but most of them are a lot of work. Many of them involve an unnerving amount of craftiness and/or …