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Year: 2019

  • Image representing post: Pure Fourier series animations for 12 oddly satisfying minutes

    Pure Fourier series animations for 12 oddly satisfying minutes

    3Blue1Brown produced animations showing Fourier series configured to draw interesting pictures, and they're mesmerising.

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    • posted 9 July, 2019
  • Michael Holyland was elated by the empathy, kindness and creativity of the team behind his favourite video game Elite Dangerous. Photograph: Mathew James Westhorpe

    How a video game community filled my nephew's final days with joy

    Mat Westhorpe on how the Elite Dangerous videogame player community came together to bring as much joy as possible to the final weeks of the life of his 15 year-old nephew. Is somebody cutting onions in here?

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    • Repost
    • posted 8 July, 2019
  • Image representing post: Metropoloid: A Metropolis Remix

    Metropoloid: A Metropolis Remix

    Yaz Minksy and Joe Blair use classic videogames to produce a contemporary soundtrack for epic 1927 silent film Metropolis.

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    • Repost
    • posted 8 July, 2019
  • Image representing post: Imogen Heap: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

    Imogen Heap: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

    Imogen Heap demonstrates how she uses her Mi.Mu gloves as an expressive music manipulation tool, and then goes on to sing the most haunting rendition of Hide and Seek you'll ever hear.

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    • Repost
    • posted 8 July, 2019
  • DanQ.me scoring 100/100 in all four Lighthouse categories

    #TodayILearned that if you get a perfect 100-100-100-100 + #PWA score from @Google's site performance/accessibility/best practice/SEO tool "@____lighthouse" then you're treated to an animated fireworks display alongside your scores. (Yes, this is for danq.me.)

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    • posted 6 July, 2019
  • Image representing post: I Staked Out My Local Dominos to See Just How Accurate Its Pizza Tracker Is

    I Staked Out My Local Dominos to See Just How Accurate Its Pizza Tracker Is

    Brian VanHooker tests the accuracy of the Dominos' Pizza Tracker by stalking his local delivery driver. Top-class investigative journalism.

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    • Repost
    • posted 5 July, 2019
  • Performed maintenance for GC86MHH Top of the Footpath

    This checkin to GC86MHH Top of the Footpath reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. After receiving a confusing message about the logbook being missing, came out to check on the cache. All is well; keep caching!

    (the cacher in question later sent me another message to confirm that all was well, โ€ฆ

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    • Checkin
    • to GC86MHH
    • posted 3 July, 2019
  • Image representing post: I Put Words on this Webpage so You Have to Listen to Me Now

    I Put Words on this Webpage so You Have to Listen to Me Now

    Christine Dodrill is angry with the way that people use tool to do thing.

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    • Repost
    • posted 28 June, 2019
  • Y'all wanna hear a story about the time I accidentally transported a brick of heroin from Los Angeles to Seattle?

    The story of two guys accidentally transporting a shit-ton of drugs. Epic.

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    • Repost
    • posted 28 June, 2019
  • Image representing post: Anniversary Break

    Anniversary Break

    Dan and Ruth celebrate their 12th anniversary by cycling across Scotland.

    Read more - about 21 minutes (4918 words)

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    • 7 comments
    • posted 28 June, 2019
  • Dan points to Edinburgh Castle in the distance

    Found GC7B9AF Edinburgh's Other Castle

    This checkin to GC7B9AF Edinburgh's Other Castle reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. My partner fleeblewidget and I have been cycling around Scotland as part of celebrations of the twelfth anniversary of us becoming a couple (a relationship that started in Edinburgh). On the way, we've been cherry-picking some of โ€ฆ

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 26 June, 2019
  • Found GC86M5G Camo Ammo

    This checkin to GC86M5G Camo Ammo reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found after an extended search with fleeblewidget. Even though we knew exactly what we were looking for, based on the description etc., this still took us a while. Totally worth it! Greetings from Oxford. TFTC!

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 25 June, 2019
  • Found GC3W69Q Philpstoun wander - Who stole the bridge?

    This checkin to GC3W69Q Philpstoun wander - Who stole the bridge? reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found easily with fleeblewidget: we've come up from Oxford and we're cycling from Glasgow to Edinburgh as part of our anniversary celebrations. Lovely spot, and yes, surely it was a bridge, once. TFTC!

    See โ€ฆ

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 25 June, 2019
  • Found GC10QDG Choo Choo

    This checkin to GC10QDG Choo Choo reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found with fleeblewidget while cycling to Edinburgh as part of our anniversary break. Beautiful spot!

    See more posts about our 2019 anniversary break?

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    • Checkin
    • to GC10QDG
    • 1 comment
    • posted 25 June, 2019
  • Found GC5N0VG The Bridge Of Sighs

    This checkin to GC5N0VG The Bridge Of Sighs reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found with fleeblewidget at the start of our anniversary break cycling around Scotland. Our sleeper train got cancelled (grr) so we arrived from London on a rail replacement coach (ugh) and started our morning exploring the โ€ฆ

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    • Checkin
    • to GC5N0VG
    • 1 comment
    • posted 24 June, 2019

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