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Couldn't find GC629TH EABDG : La vache qui tourne dans le Tour de France
This checkin to GC629TH EABDG : La vache qui tourne dans le Tour de France reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Salutations d'Angleterre.
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Review of Tower of the Five Orders
This review of Tower of the Five Orders originally appeared on Google Maps. See more reviews by Dan. Tower of the Five Orders, Oxford OX1 3BW, United Kingdom. Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This iconic Oxford landmark is named for the architectural characteristics of each of its five floors. Each exhibits a different order - or "style" - …
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Review of Bodleian Library Café
This review of Bodleian Library Café originally appeared on Google Maps. See more reviews by Dan. Bodleian Library Café, Weston Library, Broad St, Oxford OX1 3BG, United Kingdom. Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Nice cakes and large mugs of hot drinks in the fabulous Blackwell Hall. Beware the "no laptops" policy in the afternoon, though: they're militant about …
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Neural nets respond to pranks like children do
There's a lot of fun to be had in "pranking" image-recognising neural nets with unusual photos. But the ways in which they fail might be a clue about how young humans learn language, too.
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Lure
http://buttersafe.com/2018/03/01/lure/ (buttersafe.com)
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Dwitter
Dwitter is a community of <canvas> artists who write Javascript programs of no more than 140 characters to produce beautiful graphical output. Some favourites: Bluer waves, d/3697, d/4388. If the demoscene were invented today, this is what it might look like. -
Visualisation of bike rides around Tampa, Florida
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Ride the World's Longest Zipline in the UAE
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Games to Play With Your Child in Which You Barely Have to Move or Talk
Games to Play With Your Child in Which You Barely Have to Move or Talk by by Raquel D'Apice (The Ugly Volvo) I see a lot of ideas online for things to do with your child, but most of them are a lot of work. Many of them involve an unnerving amount of craftiness and/or …
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Storytime: Rebel Lieutenant
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We've Always Hated Girls Online: A Wayback Machine Investigation
We’ve Always Hated Girls Online: A Wayback Machine Investigation by Julianne Aguilar (Longreads) Julianne Aguilar | Longreads | February 2018 | 14 minutes (2,894 words) Once upon a time, in 1999, when the internet was small, when it came through your phone and not just on your phone, when the first browser war had not …
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Faceswapping, Unethical Videos, and Future Shock
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Launching An Entire Fireworks Display At Once
Tom Scott - YouTube (YouTube) Hi, I'm Tom Scott. These are some of the things I've made and done. They'll probably come back to haunt me in a few years' time. (Want to get in touch about ...
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Lunar Lander
Back in 1997 Dan made a "Lunar Lander" game in Turbo Pascal. Twenty years on, he's re-implemented it in Javascript.
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Digest for February 2018
Summary
This month I developed a workaround to WordPress/Jetpack's (terrible) CAPTCHA, replaced "love" with "butt" in song lyrics (snortle), and argued with a pension provider that I shouldn't need a doctor's letter to justify changing my gender on their website from "not provided" to "not specified" because that isn't actually a change of gender identity, …