Category: Personal
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Geohashing expedition 2018-11-09 51 -3
This checkin to geohash 2018-11-09 51 -3 reflects a geohashing expedition. See more of Dan's hash logs. Location
Field near Whitefield Rocks, Langley Marsh. Google Maps says its a nowhere-place but OpenStreetMap suggests there's a footpath right by the hashpoint.
Participants
Dan Q
Plans
Okay, I'm going for it! I'm driving … -
A 5am start and a 230-mile drive sounds like a great way to start off my part in #challengerobin 2. Stay tuned for updates/sleepy off-kilter photos...
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IndieWeb Comic
Yulia (hag.social)
Still not on board with the IndieWeb? Here's an explanation about what you're missing. -
Drowning cow saved by 'mermaid' on 200-mile swim
A drowning cow was rescued from a river by a passing "mermaid" on a 200-mile swim of the Thames.
Lindsey Cole splashed into the river in a wetsuit, tail and hat at Lechlade, Gloucestershire, on Friday. She is raising awareness of the environmental effects of single-use plastic.
As she passed through Oxfordshire on Sunday, she … -
Shadows Out of Time
Dan adapts the Bodleian's Halloween CYOA adventure gamebook into a Twine/Chapbook powered piece of interactive fiction for your browser. Play it now!
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Hands on with neural-network toolkit LIME: Come now, you sourpuss. You've got some explaining to do
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How well does the algorithm perform? Setting it up to work in LIME can be a bit of a pain, depending on your environment. The examples on Tulio Ribeiro's Github repo are in Python and have been optimised for Jupyter notebooks. I decided to get the code for a basic image analyser running in a … -
Harlot's Web
Perry Bible Fellowship
Funny throughout, and a fabulous final twist that could only be described as perhaps seasonally-too-soon. -
Performed maintenance for GC7Q96B Oxford's Long-Lost Zoo
This checkin to GC7Q96B Oxford's Long-Lost Zoo reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Checked-in following recent report of "broken hinge". Hinge is fine, but this kind of container is designed so that the hinge can be easily detached and the lid removed completely - so long as you come at …
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Why the pencil is perfect
Caroline Weaver (TED)
I love to discover people who are hugely and deeply passionate about things that seem inconsequential to the rest of the world. Especially when they're especially able to express that passion and how exciting their special-thing is, to them. This video (and to a lesser extent the others in the Small … -
Found GC2ZPK9 Fining Wood
This checkin to GC2ZPK9 Fining Wood reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A challenging find this morning, and not in the good way! After an extended search the cache was eventually found on the other side of some fallen (spiky) bushes from the published coordinates. From the logs it looks …
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Reported GC2ZPK9 Fining Wood needs maintenance
This checkin to GC2ZPK9 Fining Wood reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. This geocacher reported that there is a problem with this cache.
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Found GC7Q7FN Church Micro 11881...Lane End
This checkin to GC7Q7FN Church Micro 11881...Lane End reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Staying at the conference centre down the road I got up early this morning to come out and find this cache before breakfast. After a little while struggling to make out the letters on the gravestone …
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The International Flag of Planet Earth
The International Flag of Planet Earth
Inspirational, well thought-out proposal for a flag for unified, "for Earth" projects. The website is terrible, but the artwork's great, and it's always nice to see an artist focus on the idea of "uniting humanity" in spite of our politically-fractured world. -
The CSS Working Group At TPAC: What's New In CSS?
Last week, I attended W3C TPAC as well as the CSS Working Group meeting there. Various changes were made to specifications, and discussions had which I feel are of interest to web designers and developers. In this article, I’ll explain a little bit about what happens at TPAC, and show some examples and demos of …
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Why didn't humanity save the planet? Perhaps they were busy
First Dog on the Moon (The Guardian)
Turns out that Al Gore was right about the ManBearPig, or something.