Blog
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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.
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Found GC48ZDW The End Of The World is Nigh
This checkin to GC48ZDW The End Of The World is Nigh reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Quick cache and dash while in the vicinity. Overshot the obvious parking place and so parked up the road at the premises of "Q Associates". Figured they wouldn't mind given than it's Sunday. …
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Found GC6DD4G 10MG TABLETS
This checkin to GC6DD4G 10MG TABLETS reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Easy find once I'd looked at the hint. Container very exposed; re-hid. Excellent log book, highly thematic! Thanks for showing me this spot.