Month: May 2019
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Jon Snow oh oh EXTENDED REMIX oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
YouTube's best comedy/musical reinterpretation of Game of Thrones (yes, that's a thing) just got better.
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What Happened After My 13-Year-Old Son Joined the Alt-Right
A chilling story about one family's struggle with the alt-right's youth recruitment strategies.
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BBC News... without the sport
A lightweight Ruby program to republish the BBC News RSS feed... but without the sports articles.
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Protecting Yourself from Identity Theft
Bruce speaks my mind.
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My TED Video on the Future of Work
Matt Mullenweg shares what makes Automattic's distributed workforce "work", and there are parallels to how Three Rings operates too.
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First Physical Retaliation for a Cyberattack
Bruce Schneier observes that we've probably just witnessed the first instance of a physical counter-attack in retaliation for a cyberspace attack.
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A Conspiracy To Kill IE6
The little-told story of how a rogue team of YouTube engineers in 2009 helped hasten IE6's downfall by adding a deprecation warning to the top of the site's homepage...
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Avengers, MCU, Game of Thrones, and the Content Endgame
Matt Zoller Seitz uses Avengers: Endgame and the final series of Game of Thrones to frame an examination of the vanishing distinction between film and television and what it means for audiovisual media.
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remysharp comments on "Bringing back the Web of 1990"
A MetaFilter comment I somehow missed in which Remy Sharp acknowledges my debugging of the CERN hackathon to reimplement WorldWideWeb. Squee!
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Episode 25: ON CONSENT AND CUDDLING with my daughter Des
Episode 25 of the Sexplanations Podcast features Dr. Doe's daughter Des, and it's adorable.
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Blogging with semantic insertions and deletions
Adapting your CSS can make semantically-enhanced /
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1. Step out of my office. 2. Receive handful of free pizza. Thanks @PapaJohnsUK!
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May Day Morris dancers, Oxford, 2019
Well into the afternoon and, for these Morris dancers, the party is still on.
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A poem about Silicon Valley, assembled from Quora questions about Silicon Valley
Why do so many startups fail? / Why are all the hosts on CouchSurfing male? / Are we going to be tweeting for the rest of our lives? / Why do Silicon Valley billionaires choose average-looking wives?
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May Day morning in Oxford, 2019
Oxford has a long tradition of an all-night party into the first of May. It was still going on outside his office when Dan arrived for work.