Half-Life 2 was released, over a year behind schedule. Delays had been blamed on the theft of source code
from Valve’s network during a hack attack, leading to many in the community asking “don’t they have backups?”
Yasser Arafat died at the age of 75, after a short illness and coma, while functionally confined to his
compound by the Israeli army. He’d won the Nobel Peace Prize ten years earlier.
NASA’s experimental X-43A scramjet reached a speed of 7,000 mph, almost ten times the speed of sound. News
coverage at the time talked about the possibility of flying to the other side of the world in about 4 hours, but scramjet technology is still a long way from being stable or safe
enough for mainstream use.
Since 1989, the War Memorials Archive has been trying to keep an up-to-date database for everybody to read, showing the location of every war
memorial in the UK as well of details of the dead commemorated there. But their records are incomplete, and sadly many memorials (especially rural ones) are degrading: someday the
information on them may be lost.
You can help, and it’s really easy. First, find your nearest local war memorial at http://www.ukniwm.org.uk/server/show/nav.23 – just search in your town or village and you’ll find one. See if it appears and if the
information is complete: some records barely show that the memorial is there, others have full lists of names, but many are in-between, merely listing which wars are represented.
Then head out to the memorial and take photos of all sides of it, close enough that you can read all of the text. In the top right corner of the page about your town’s memorial,
there’s a link to provide updated information: just type in the new details that you found and send it off. Or, if your memorial wasn’t in the database at all, send them an email.
This Remembrance Sunday you can do more for the memory of those killed in war by helping future generations remember and research, too. Thanks for your help.
I had a public “megalounges” multireddit that I made available to anybody in the megalounges who wanted a starting point to make a convenient multireddit list. But if I’d have put
this subreddit into that list, then it could give away the identity of this “final” subreddit, so I’ve made the multireddit private.
If you use a “megalounges” multireddit and you’re putting this lounge into it, don’t forget to make that multireddit private too!
Performed maintenance: dried out contents and added fresh silica gel sachets to help keep moisture out, adjusted seal to improve waterproofing, added a travel bug that loves mystery
caches (help him find more!).
[this post, which was originally made to a private subreddit, referenced the image formerly found
at http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr02/2013/4/16/22/enhanced-buzz-27259-1366166748-0.jpg but which has since disappeared]
That it’s “super legit and awesome” or “the best subreddit ever”.
The stuff that appears on the “you’re not allowed in; here’s how to request access” page, which is publicly-visible anyway.
/u/NOT_MEEHAN disagreed with me, and suggested that specifically the first of those interpretations wasn’t true: i.e. that Rule 2 forbids even mentioning
that /r/The_Haven exists. As a precaution, I immediately edited my comments to minimise disruption, but because I think that /u/NOT_MEEHAN‘s interpretation might be wrong, I thought I’d come here and ask you guys, the community (and moderators) for a ruling.
tl;dr: Does Rule 2 prohibit mentioning elsewhere on Reddit that /r/The_Haven even exists?
4 Way 13A Switched Adaptor with Surge Protection - White
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Overall good, but not suitable for every space
Overall, a good way to get extra sockets especially above workspaces. However, the shape of the device means that it might not be suitable for every space: for example, if you plug it
into one of a pair of sockets you might find that you’re unable to easily use the adjacent socket because the new sockets get in the way of the cable. And if you’re plugging and
unplugging things into/out of this power strip often, you’ll discover that it can “wobble” in an alarming way. The power switches feel a little light and plasticky, too.
But still – overall a good idea and reasonable value.
So on the upside: this works, and charging your phone “by magic” is exactly as cool as it sounds. It makes marginally longer to charge, but if you’ve got an S5 it’ll probably save you
time in the long run because you don’t have to keep opening the waterproof seal at the bottom of your phone. Plus, this charger uses the Qi standard so it’ll be compatible with lots of
other inductive-charging devices now and in the future.
Unfortunately I’ve found that it’s quite fussy about where exactly you have to place the phone in order to make contact. A centimetre or two out from the ideal spot and the phone keeps
losing the connection and then regaining it, causing it to beep and the screen to flash (which isn’t much use if you’re trying to sleep!). The upper surface of the charging pad doesn’t
have much grip and is convex in shape, so it’s very easy to knock your phone off the ideal spot, too. And while it’s reasonably price, it still feels a little cheap that it doesn’t come
with a power supply of it’s own (you have to use the one that came with your phone).
All-in-all, I wouldn’t recommend this, even though it “works”: there are probably better devices out there.
