Month: September 2019
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Perpetual Flip Calendar
Video showing the construction of an ingenious perpetual calendar and the clever action that results.
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Retro-PESOSing my Reviews
Dan's reviews, future and historical, can now be found here following his work at IndieWebCamp Oxford 2019.
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HTML Movies
HTML tags which share their names with (often terrible) films.
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Performed maintenance for GC7QG1Z Oxford’s Wild Wolf Three
This checkin to GC7QG1Z Oxford’s Wild Wolf Three reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Performed routine maintenance at the cache site; everything seems well.
A couple of 'cachers have reported that the GZ is inaccessible owing to the path being overgrown. The "obvious" path to the cache really is pretty heavily … -
So You Want To Start An Unpopular Blog
A fellow unpopular blogger shares the secret of their lack of success, with commentary from Dan.
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Arrived early for @indiewebcamp #oxford at @oxonlibraries. @garrettc still filling up on coffee.
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Rapper's Delight, performed by Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant
I said-a hip, hop, the hippie, the hippie to the hip hip hop-a you don't stop the rock.
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Cheating Hangman
Dan implements "Cheating Hangman", perhaps the cruellest hangman game you'll ever play.
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This is your phone on feminism
Our devices are basically gaslighting us, argues Maria Farrell.
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The Race to Win Staten Island
Possibly CGP Grey's best video yet, it quickly diverges from a straightforward path through the Forest of All Knowledge and becomes an epic adventure.
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Water Science
Dan and the kids participate in some citizen science, testing the water quality in the Oxford Canal.
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Enter The D&DDJ
A new blog by my friend Alec promises an exploration of enhancing tabletop roleplaying with music.
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Elf Chalkboard Puzzle
A puzzle: elves wipe numbers from your chalkboard in a particular pattern. Is the number that's left odd or even?
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Using the Web for Exhibition Interactives
As he writes up notes for his successor, Dan explains how the Bodleian's interactive digital signage uses the power of the Web.
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Motorbiking to Scotland
My friend Bev wrote about their motorcycling adventure up and down the UK; it's pretty awesome.