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Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.

  • Popcorn

    A 13-second short film/art project about making just one piece of popcorn.

    Read more - about 1 minutes (11 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 7 January, 2020
  • Graph showing that recent events matter a lot, but rapidly tail off for a while before levelling out again as they become long-ago events.

    It's 2020 and you're in the future

    Wait But Why produces another one of those lists of things that are now closer to some-other-event than today, and Dan passes comment on their process.

    Read more (325 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 6 January, 2020
  • Image representing post: Fix your PC with a crystal pendulum

    Fix your PC with a crystal pendulum

    Uploaded to YouTube 11 years ago, in what now feels like an earlier era, this old classic still makes me smile every time.

    Read more (24 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 5 January, 2020
  • Image representing post: The Legend of the Homicidal Fire-Proof Salamander

    The Legend of the Homicidal Fire-Proof Salamander

    Wired wrote an article about the mythology surrounding salamanders, and it reminds Dan of other animal myths.

    Read more (400 words)

    • Repost
    • 1 comment
    • posted 4 January, 2020
  • This Page is Designed to Last: A Manifesto for Preserving Content on the Web

    Dan looks at what Jeff Huang's manifesto means for him individually as a blogger.

    Read more (439 words)

    • Repost
    • 2 comments
    • posted 3 January, 2020
  • Image representing post: I ignored warnings from friends and family not to marry my husband

    I ignored warnings from friends and family not to marry my husband

    A surprisingly uplifting story from the Washington Post.

    Read more (222 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 2 January, 2020
  • Film : Star Wars IX : The Rise of Skywalker

    Andrew Stephens' opinion of The Rise of Skywalker very-closely echoes Dan's.

    Read more (41 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 1 January, 2020
  • Image representing post: When you're in the club and you're hungry... (Misheard Lyrics… Round Two!)

    When you're in the club and you're hungry... (Misheard Lyrics… Round Two!)

    Bec Hill's hearing food in her music again. Funny.

    Read more (150 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 26 December, 2019
  • Image representing post: Making It Boring

    Making It Boring

    Jeremy Wagner proposes that the Web should be made more boring to make it usable by more people, more of the time, and faster. With Dan's comments.

    Read more (220 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 26 December, 2019
  • Tacobot 3000

    TacoBot 3000 (Part 3 of the Raining Tacos saga)

    Parry Gripp's latest video contains the catchiest song about tacos or robots that you'll ever hear.

    Read more (31 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 1 December, 2019
  • Philosophy Tube - Men. Abuse. Trauma.

    Men. Abuse. Trauma. | Philosophy Tube

    Dan watches "Men. Abuse. Trauma." on Philosophy Tube and doesn't quite get flashbacks.

    Read more (225 words)

    • Repost
    • 3 comments
    • posted 1 December, 2019
  • Vintage vibrators

    Review: Vintage Vibrators

    Epiphora reviews vintage vibrators that are old enough to have belonged to her great grandmother. Hilarity ensues.

    Read more (154 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 16 November, 2019
  • Third party

    Jeremy Keith wonders if the Web would have third-party cookies and JS at all if it were invented today, and Dan weighs in.

    Read more (435 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 15 November, 2019
  • New Renault Clio ad

    30 Years in the making | The All-New Renault CLIO

    If Renault had wanted Dan to buy a Clio instead of the new Zoe, they should have shown him THIS ad. All the feels!

    Read more (124 words)

    • Repost
    • 5 comments
    • posted 13 November, 2019
  • Should accessibility features be optional?

    Go Make Things talks about the duty of library developers to add on-by-default accessibility features, and Dan summarises the conclusion.

    Read more (278 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 8 November, 2019

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