Note #25492

The Nylon Pool is a sandbar in the Buccoo Reef, off the coast of Tobago. Despite the distance from the shore, it’s only about waist-deep. Truly mind-boggling.

Dan stands waist-deep in seawater; land is visible in the far distance.

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Note #25490

Came half way around the world to find a surprising boat with a non-English name I understand.

Small six-seater day boat named 'Cariad', afloat. The letter I is dotted with a heart symbol.

(“Cariad” is Welsh for “love”)

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Dark Patterns Detective

This is a repost promoting content originally published elsewhere. See more things Dan's reposted.

This was fun. A simple interactive demonstration of ten different dark patterns you’ve probably experienced online. I might use it as a vehicle for talking about such deceptive tactics with our eldest child, who’s now coming to an age where she starts to see these kinds of things.

Screenshot showing a basket containing a 'premium package' including several optional add-ons, with no obvious way to remove those add-ons.

After I finished exploring the dark patterns shown, I decided to find out more about the author and clicked the link in the footer, expecting to be taken to their personal web site. But instead, ironically, I came to a web page on a highly-recognisable site that’s infamous for its dark patterns: 🤣

LinkedIn screenshot showing not one but two popups to try to encourage me to log in to see more content.

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Dan Q did not find GC3PJYY Paradise

This checkin to GC3PJYY Paradise reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.

Found the location and the hint object, but a thorough search did not reveal the cache. I think it might be missing, and the previous log (erroneously tagged as if it were found but clearly indicating in the text that it was not, and therefore possibly in need of deletion?) implies the same.

(I initially assumed the cache must be here because if its recent “found” log – this is why its important to log DNFs! 🙄)

Dan, wearing his sunglasses on top of his bandana, looking hot and grumpy, crouches by a tree stump with coconut husks atop it.

Anyway, thanks to CO and keeper for this cache. Without it, we wouldn’t have come up to this beautiful spot in the first place.

 

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