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  • Image representing post: Here's The Plan

    Here's The Plan

    Here's the Plan - Animated Short Film (YouTube) French Subs by: Garance Broze ✨✨Here's the Plan merchandising available at https://herestheplanshop.tictail.com !✨✨

    Fernanda Frick (YouTube)
    Well, I just had my heart broken by a cartoon about a dog and a cat. Or as the top commenter at the time of writing puts it "I'M NOT …

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    • posted 30 January, 2018
  • Security Breaches Don't Affect Stock Price

    Security Breaches Don't Affect Stock Price - Schneier on Security (schneier.com) false Interesting research: "Long-term market implications of data breaches, not," by Russell Lange and Eric W. Burger. Abstract: This report assesses the impact disclosure of data breaches has on the total returns and volatility of the affected companies' stock, with a focus on the …

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    • posted 29 January, 2018
  • 10 Songs You've Heard and Don't Know the Name Of

    10 Songs You've Heard and Don't Know the Name Of (YouTube) J'ai joué 10 chansons classiques que tu as déjà ouïes mais dont tu ne connais pas le nom. En effet, personne ne connaît leurs noms. Apprends-les avec cette v...

    Lord Vinheteiro (YouTube)

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    • posted 28 January, 2018
  • Image representing post: How Russia's Hilarious, Homoerotic "Satisfaction" Became a Nationwide Meme of Solidarity

    How Russia's Hilarious, Homoerotic "Satisfaction" Became a Nationwide Meme of Solidarity

    How Russia’s Hilarious, Homoerotic “Satisfaction” Became a Nationwide Meme of Solidarity (The New Yorker) Masha Gessen writes about a series of recent recent Russian parody videos, started by air-transport cadets as a spoof of the music video for “Satisfaction,” by Benny Benassi, from 2002.
    A few weeks ago, fourteen Russian first-year air-transport cadets made …

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    • posted 28 January, 2018
  • Report: 80's kids started programming at an earlier age than today's millennials

    Report: 80's kids started programming at an earlier age than today's millennials (The Next Web) Thanks BBC Micro! HackerRank has published its 2018 Developer Skills Report. The paper looks at a number things essential to understanding the developer landscape, and explores things like the perks coders demand from their workplaces, the technologies they prefer to …

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    • posted 26 January, 2018
  • Image representing post: I Have a Confession to Make

    I Have a Confession to Make

    I Have a Confession to Make | Rob Sheridan on Patreon (Patreon) Official Post from Rob Sheridan: That goober you see above is me as a nerdy high school kid in my bedroom in 1998, being interviewed on TV for a dumb website I made. Allow me to explain.20 years ago this month, an episode …

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    • posted 26 January, 2018
  • The female price of male pleasure

    The female price of male pleasure (theweek.com) Official site of The Week Magazine, offering commentary and analysis of the day's breaking news and current events as well as arts, entertainment, people and gossip, and political cartoons. The world is disturbingly comfortable with the fact that women sometimes leave a sexual encounter in tears.

    When Babe.net published …

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    • posted 26 January, 2018
  • Image representing post: Late

    Late

    Late... (Oh Joy Sex Toy) Erika & Matt think the world of sex is amazing. Using comedy and research, they make the best educational and sex-positive comics around.

    The concept of becoming a mother fucking terrifies me. I mean, don’t get me wrong, if you wanna be a parent that is totally cool with me! …

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    • posted 24 January, 2018
  • Naked in a lake

    Explain...

    Explain… (52 Reflect) I only fully relax when I’m in the countryside… I only relax when I'm in the countryside. It's not a convenient truth, especially when London is my home and one of the most exciting and eclectic cities in the world - not to mention one of the only places I've managed to …

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    • posted 24 January, 2018
  • Image representing post: On This Day In 2004

    On This Day In 2004

    On this day in 2004 Claire and I hosted the eleventh ever Troma Night, a weekly event that became a central part of the social calendar of our friends for about six years. I've dug up some old photos, so I thought we might enjoy reminiscing about how young we all used to look.

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    • posted 24 January, 2018
  • Image representing post: The Pig War of 1859

    The Pig War of 1859

    The Pig War of 1859 (Historic UK) Undeniably one of the most obscure and unusual 'wars' in history, this is the story of how the killing of an escaped pig almost caused a war between the United States and Britain. 'The Pig War' is perhaps one of the most obscure and unusual wars in history. …

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    • posted 23 January, 2018
  • The diabolical genius of the baby advice industry | News | The Guardian

    The diabolical genius of the baby advice industry (the Guardian) The long read: Every baffled new parent goes searching for answers in baby manuals. But what they really offer is the reassuring fantasy that life’s most difficult questions have one right answer



    Human beings are born too soon. Within hours of …

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    • posted 23 January, 2018
  • Image representing post: Becky falls off a chair in McDonalds

    Becky falls off a chair in McDonalds



    Originally from a tweet.

    In case anyone needs a good laugh today here’s me falling off a stool in McDonald’s that a friend found on the CCTV

    Also available on YouTube.

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    • posted 22 January, 2018
  • Early start: @3RingsCIC are sending me to visit @WakefieldSams this morning to talk about #technology and #volunteering. Looking forward to meeting everybody there!

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    • posted 21 January, 2018
  • Understanding The Imperial March - YouTube

    Understanding The Imperial March (YouTube) There's a new Star Wars movie coming out soon, so we're looking at my favorite piece from the original trilogy: Darth Vader's theme, also known as the Imperi...

    12tone

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    • posted 17 January, 2018

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