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For the last time, Google is not our competition in libraries…
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There’s a very famous Neil Gaiman quote among librarians and lovers of libraries: “Google will bring you back, you know, a hundred thousand answers. A librarian will bring you back the right one.”…
The Lost Civilization of Dial-Up Bulletin Board Systems
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I have a vivid, recurring dream. I climb the stairs in my parents’ house to see my old bedroom. In the back corner, I hear a faint humming.
It’s my old computer, still running my 1990s-era bulletin board system (BBS, for short), “The Cave.” I thought I had shut it down ages ago, but it’s been chugging away this whole time without me realizing it—people continued calling my BBS to play games, post messages, and upload files. To my astonishment, it never shut down after all…
Sogno di Volare (Christopher Tin, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Angel City Chorale, Prima Vocal Ensemble, Lucis)
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Can you stop Jeremy Corbyn from joining ISIS? [Twine game]
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The Zip Line Across Time Zones
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Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers With WebSockets
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Pornhub has found an innovative way to deliver ads to users of ad blocking software, exploiting limitations in Chrome’s content blocking API…
Review of Oh…Sir! The Insult Simulator
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Oh… Sir! The Insult Simulator is a light-hearted, (quite literally) Monty Python-silly timed-turns insult-spitting game for one or two players. It’s the perfect casual luck-heavy puzzler for anybody whose hovercraft is full of eels, whose parrot is pining for the fjords, or who would like to learn The Meaning of Life. There are fun unlockables to keep you playing for a couple of hours, and it’s worth every penny of the £1.43 I paid for it (I’d have loved it at £1.50, too, except that I wouldn’t have seen it in the first place were it not on sale).
So the next time somebody tells you that you have a silly walk or you decide that you’d like to have an argument, just remember to tell them: “Your mother secretly admires your liver, and will soon be dead.” That ought to put them in their place! But until that day, give Oh… Sir! The Insult Simulator a go.
Note #7382
My device will restart when, exactly, @Microsoft? https://t.co/UbZck3ZZye
Note #7380
As a huge fanboy of @timberners_lee, I can’t describe how excited I am that he’s accepted a position at @UniofOxford
https://t.co/Q5oWSszbWE
Hilarious hashtag on how Trump interprets classic literature | Mashable
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Another debate, another Twitterstorm.
And this one has spawned possibly THE best hashtag of the election season — #TrumpBookReport…
How Entropy Powers The Earth (Big Picture Ep. 4)
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Life Goals
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Note #7378
When someone touts their app-that-should-be-the-web at me, I give them @adactio’s words on the subject: https://t.co/yrvPmzLBDH #musetech16 https://t.co/vkgpIWXEPD
Chaise Lounger
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