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Archived GC23P6J Badge Cache Capel Madog
This checkin to GC23P6J Badge Cache Capel Madog reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Returned to check on this and can't find it: I'm really too far away to be maintaining this one any more, so I'll leave the space free for somebody else to take if they want.
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Review of The Alchemist Oxford
This review of The Alchemist Oxford originally appeared on Google Maps. See more reviews by Dan. The Alchemist Oxford, Westgate, Bonn Square, Oxford OX1 1TR, United Kingdom. Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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Review of City Mazes Oxford, Escape Rooms
This review of City Mazes Oxford, Escape Rooms originally appeared on Google Maps. See more reviews by Dan. City Mazes Oxford, Escape Rooms, 5, Ozone Leisure Park, Grenoble Rd, Oxford OX4 4XP, United Kingdom. Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Best of the three escape room centres we've visited: we undertook a well-constructed and beautiful puzzle with some genuine …
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Review of CRAFT Burger
This review of CRAFT Burger originally appeared on Google Maps. See more reviews by Dan. CRAFT Burger, The Parade, 1, Windmill Rd, Oxford OX3 7BL, United Kingdom. Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great burgers and drinks (often with well-chosen names with enjoyable wordplay) served in a fabulously relaxed environment. Sides/starters nothing to write home about, but that's not …
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Found GLVRG2DJ Church Micro 4195…Headington
This checkin to GLVRG2DJ Church Micro 4195…Headington reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found with fleeblewidget on a quick spring evening walk while waiting for our appointment time at the nearby escape room. Lovely little tour of a pretty part of Headington. TFTC!
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Intermediary Protocols and Google Duplex
As Google show off their digital assistant's upcoming new feature of being able to make phone calls on your behalf, Dan asks what this means for the way we communicate in the future.
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The woman who watched 300 executions in Texas
The woman who watched 300 executions (BBC News) A former employee of the state of Texas describes the profound effect the executions had on her.
Texas has executed far more people than any other US state, and one former employee of the state has watched hundreds of executions unfold. She speaks to Ben Dirs … -
The man with the golden blood
The man with the golden blood (The man with the golden blood) Meet the donors, patients, doctors and scientists involved in the complex global network of rare – and very rare – blood. By Penny Bailey.
His doctor drove him over the border. It was quicker that way: if the man donated in Switzerland, … -
The Mystery Cable
Dan found a mystery cable in his attic and has no idea what it is or what it does. Can you help, before it drives him mad?
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Mystery cable found in my attic
What is it? What is it for? I've never seen anything like it before!
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The Quakers are right. We don't need God.
The Quakers are right. We don’t need God | Simon Jenkins by Simon Jenkins (the Guardian) The group is considering dropping God from its meetings guidance. This is the new religiosity, says the Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins The Quakers are clearly on to something. At their annual get-together this weekend they are reportedly thinking of …
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Posted a note for GC591VV You Can't Do It Alone!
This checkin to GC591VV You Can't Do It Alone! reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. If anybody wants to replicate this and make a similar cache themselves, instructions, schematics, and a link to the source code can be found at:
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The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant
The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (youtube.com)
CGP Grey
There are so many things for which this can be a metaphor. Bring-your-own-philosophy. -
The Better Bundo Book
Dan reads A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo to a four year-old as a vehicle to talking about difference, diversity, and discrimination.
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Timmy Muldoon and the Search for the Shadoweyes Bandit
Timmy Muldoon and the Search for the Shadoweyes Bandit (youtu.be)
Tyacenda
This is amazing, and I've no idea how it's only got (at the time of writing) ~28,000 views. Seriously: push on through the first two minutes and pay atention to how the effects and filming are executed. Then keep watching.