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If your kid stops believing in Santa this year...
by Imgur **********************************
"In our family, we have a special way of transitioning the kids from receiving from Santa, to becoming a Santa. This way, the Santa construct is not a lie that gets discovered, but an unfolding series of good deeds and Christmas spirit.
When they are 6 or 7, whenever you see that dawning suspicion … -
Alpha-Gal and the Gaia Hypothesis
A tick bite can make you allergic to non-primate mammals. Gaia hypothesis advocates might suggest that the increase in frequency of such bites is an example of the Earth fighting back against intensive farming's impact on climate.
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The Hu - Yuve Yuve Yu
by The Hu
The Hu (YouTube)
Mongolian folk rock. Until right now, you probably didn't even know that this was missing from your life.
Be sure to switch on the translated subtitles (assuming you don't speak Mongolian): they're not perfect, but they're good enough to get the idea. Awesome. -
Emails to Melbourne's trees
Melbourne gave 70,000 trees email addresses so people could report on their condition. But instead people are writing love letters, existential queries and sometimes just bad puns.
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Margaret Burin (ABC News)
In an effort to facilitate better tracking of the health of their trees, the city of Melbourne assigned an email address to each of … -
How to Poach an Egg and Leave a Marriage
by Brandy Jensen ...
Set a timer. Cook the eggs for precisely three minutes and not a second longer.
Everyone thinks they have a sense of how time passes, but it’s crucial to use a timer. You are never as right as you think. Three minutes goes by more quickly than you expect. Six years even quicker.
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Chromedge and headcount
So Microsoft is going to retire EdgeHTML and use Chromium instead for Edge while not really answering the question if the web [is] better off with less engine diversity. This upset people, and Mozilla, especially, is worrying about the future:
Will Microsoft’s decision make it harder for Firefox to prosper? It could. Making … -
Letters For Lucardo
by Erika Moen
Oh Joy Sex Toy
Click through for the full review. I've always loved me some Oh Joy Sex Toy, but I've rarely been inclined to buy something off the back of one of Erika's recommendations until now. -
Posted a note 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. Visited GZ as part of maintenance; all well here, although the "obvious" path to the cache continues to become increasingly overgrown - a fallen tree in the way almost but not quite justifies putting the terrain …
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Enabled 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. Ran the trail myself, all looks good now!
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Made-maintenance OK045A Oxford’s Wild Wolf Three
This checkin to OK045A Oxford’s Wild Wolf Three reflects an opencache.uk log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Replaced Waypoint #2 and checked on final stage. All well and ready to go!
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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. Replaced Waypoint 2. Trail should be followable again.
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Second Factor Safety Net
If your phone is your second-factor, what happens when you lose it? Dan shares his backup strategies and encourages you to think about your own.
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Temporarily disabled 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. User Sapphirites advises that Waypoint #2 is missing. I plan to perform maintenance later today to bring this series back into working order.
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The Case Against Quantum Computing
by Mikhail Dyakonov Quantum computing is all the rage. It seems like hardly a day goes by without some news outlet describing the extraordinary things this technology promises. Most commentators forget, or just gloss over, the fact that people have been working on quantum computing for decades—and without any practical results to show for it.
We’ve … -
Dune
Trudy & Doug (Oglaf, Patreon)