Blog
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Alternatives to Google Reader
Google Reader is slated to be shut down on 1st July. Many of Dan's friends still use Google Reader as their primary RSS reader, so he's put together a quick guide to evacuating to pastures greener.
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Hello 2013: My Birthday
Dan managed to spend the afternoon of his birthday away from his computer and in the pub... but only because his office caught fire! This, and more from Dan's early-January trip to London.
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TIL that more than 1 in every 365 people die on their birthday, and nobody's sure why
A study by Swiss researchers has generated a startling statistic - you are 14% more likely to die on your birthday than on any other day of the year. But why should that be?
As the researchers put it, "birthdays… appear to end up in a lethal way more frequently than expected ."
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Hello 2013: Goodbye 2012
In a belated blog post, Dan looks back on 2012, and describes it as one of the hardest years of his life.
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TIL that the most uncontacted people in the world, the Sentinelese, live in a hunter-gatherer society that isn't even known to make fire.
The Sentinelese (also called the Sentineli or North Sentinel Islanders) are the indigenous people of North Sentinel Island in the Andaman Islands of India. One of the Andamanese people, they resist contact with the outside world. They are one of the uncontacted peoples, although like all of today’s so-called uncontacted people they have a history …
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Mikey: the awesome cow who thinks she's a dog [x-post from /r/pics]
AltCow brought up as a dog
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Ruth skiing at Les Gets
My partner Ruth skis down a few blue runs in Les Gets, in the Portes des Soleil region of the French Alps. And falls over.
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Memo: when using wget to mirror a website, remember to set the bounds. Last night, I accidentally downloaded 1769 websites.
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Silly cow. You do not belong here.
AltCow and dolphin
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MS Paint sloth [x-post from /r/funny]
AltMS Paint sloth
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[x-post] "The northen Hawk Owl is an explosive killer, and extremely hard to capture. 1/2000 of a second shutter speed and 5 hours in -22 Celsius got me the shot :)"
AltSuperb owl
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My first thoughts on Outside.
I've been playing for a little while now, and here's my thoughts so far:
I love the open world aspects of the game; I've never played anything where there's been quite so much freedom (especially when you're just starting out). It's taken a while to get used to the areas which are only … -
Counterfeit Monkey
Earlier this year, Dan played Emily Short's latest interactive fiction game, Counterfeit Monkey, and decided that it was among the best games of its type that he's played in years. You should play it, too.
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Yesterday's jaunt with @BrynS wasn't QUITE my fill of comedy. So tonight, I'm off to the @CamdenHead in Angel for their open mic night.
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After a wonderful night of comedy with @BrynS, I'm back in the office (in the building that caught fire), now powered by a huge generator.