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Why your brain never runs out of problems to find
David Levari (The Conversation) It's a psychological quirk that when something becomes rarer, people may spot it in more places than ever. What is the 'concept creep' that lets context change how we categorize the world around us?
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Happy Pride Month!
Happy Pride Month! - Create, Discover and Share GIFs on Gfycat (Gfycat) Watch Happy Pride Month! GIF by cheshix on Gfycat. Discover more Mark Kanemura GIFs, mkik808 GIFs on Gfycat.
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Test Your Awareness : Whodunnit?
YouTube (youtube.com)
Transport for London (YouTube)
I remember when this advertisement did its original run and I loved it. I was delighted to accidentally stumble across it on the Web recently; if you haven't seen it before (and even if you have) you should give it a watch... -
Cropmarks 2018
https://rcahmw.gov.uk/cropmarks-2018/ (rcahmw.gov.uk)
The unprecedented spell of hot, dry weather across Wales has provided perfect conditions for archaeological aerial photography. As the drought has persisted across Wales, scores of long-buried archaeological sites have been revealed once again as ‘cropmarks’, or patterns of growth in ripening crops and parched grasslands. The Royal Commission’s aerial investigator Dr Toby … -
Frigid
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
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The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech
John Gordon: The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech (urbigenous.net) Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen.
There comes a time when people at a technical conference like this need something more relaxing. A change of pace. A shift of style. To put aside all that work stuff and think of something refreshingly different.
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Einstein's theory still passes the test: weak and strong gravity objects fall the same way
AstronNL (YouTube)
Fabulous explanation of the Strong Equivalence Principle coupled with a nice bit of recent research to prove that it holds true even in extreme gravitational fields (and therefore disproving a few interesting fringe theories). It's hard science made to enjoy like pop science: yay! Plus a Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference, … -
How To Play - Carcassonne
https://youtu.be/DJ2Si2sjHNY (youtu.be)
The Dragon's Tomb (YouTube)
This is not your typical How To Play. I'll bet you never knew the real rules for Carcassonne... -
The Insane Story In The Background Of Arrested Development
The Insane Story In The Background Of Arrested Development (Cracked.com) The day that Mitchell Hurwitz starts making shallow humor is the day that we rip the mask off of Mitchell Hurwitz and find the real Mitchell Hurwitz bound in his own cellar. Throughout the first three seasons of Arrested Development, we were treated to some …
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Leak in Comic Chameleon (app API hacking)
Not for the first time, Dan becomes an "accidental hacker" when he finds a bug in a comic-reader app that lets him read not-yet-published episodes of a webcomic he follows.
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Performed maintenance for GC7Q9FF Oxford's Wild Wolf Two
This checkin to GC7Q9FF Oxford's Wild Wolf Two reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. You think when you chain a container to an abandoned concrete block that's been "just standing there" fire years that it'll be safe, don't you? Turns out: not necessarily! Looks like a super-heavy vehicle managed to …
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Digest for June 2018
Summary
This month I attended The Lead Developer conference and used my lunch break (and my journey back to the station) to find a reasonable number of central London geocaches, as listed below. I also reshared an announcement by Garrett Coakley that IndieWeb Oxford was to go ahead in September.
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Lateral: Game 1 with Kat Arney, Helen Arney, Simon Clark, and Sally Le Page
https://youtu.be/_xS-BIcu4ew (youtu.be)
Tom Scott (YouTube)
Tom Scott's new YouTube game show, Lateral, has just finished it's first series. Start watching from here, if you're at all interested... and you should be, it's funny and clever (albeit in a very different way to Citation Needed). -
Unbreakable smart lock devastated to discover screwdrivers exist
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/15/taplock_broken_screwdriver/ (theregister.co.uk) It's never easy to crack into a market with an innovative new product but makers of the "world's first smart fingerprint padlock" have made one critical error: they forgot about the existence of screwdrivers.
Tapplock raised $320,000 in 2016 for their product that would allow you to use just your finger to open the … -
REPORT: Cards Against Humanity officially surpasses acoustic guitars as the most annoying thing you can bring to a party - The Beaverton
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2018/06/report-cards-against-humanity-officially-surpasses-acoustic-guitars-as-the-most-annoying-thing-you-can-bring-to-a-party/ (thebeaverton.com) VICTORIA, BC – After data collection from thousands of parties across the country, reports are coming in that the annoying person who brings an acoustic guitar to a party is now officially less hated than the person who expects everyone to sit down and play Cards Against Humanity.
“At least when some asshole starts …