Kind: Reposts
Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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So You Want To Start An Unpopular Blog
A fellow unpopular blogger shares the secret of their lack of success, with commentary from Dan.
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Rapper's Delight, performed by Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant
I said-a hip, hop, the hippie, the hippie to the hip hip hop-a you don't stop the rock.
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This is your phone on feminism
Our devices are basically gaslighting us, argues Maria Farrell.
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The Race to Win Staten Island
Possibly CGP Grey's best video yet, it quickly diverges from a straightforward path through the Forest of All Knowledge and becomes an epic adventure.
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Enter The D&DDJ
A new blog by my friend Alec promises an exploration of enhancing tabletop roleplaying with music.
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Elf Chalkboard Puzzle
A puzzle: elves wipe numbers from your chalkboard in a particular pattern. Is the number that's left odd or even?
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Motorbiking to Scotland
My friend Bev wrote about their motorcycling adventure up and down the UK; it's pretty awesome.
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Forward #100 - Gamification
Forward Comic reaches strip #100!
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Which Face is Real?
Play an online game to learn to differentiate real from "deepfake"-style photos. With comments from Dan.
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Impossible Geometry
Rapping about video games is one thing. Rapping about music/beatmatching video games takes this to a whole new level.
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I Wrote a Song Using Only Hate Comments
Some people fight their haters. Some people ignore their haters. Madilyn Bailey goes one step further and uses hate comments as the lyrics to a song.
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Proposal to allow specifying a text snippet in a URL fragment
Chrome's implemented an experimental feature to allow deeplinking to arbitrary text content, which is awesome (with Dan's comments).
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Watch UK's Natural Land Diminish in 100 Seconds
If the different land uses of the UK were divided up into their percentage-ratio blocks, what would a 100-second tour of the country (with each second covering a single percent of the land usage) look like?
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When Experienced Women Engineers Look for New Jobs, They Prioritize Trust and Growth
Excellent research courtesy of my soon-to-be new employer about the driving factors affecting women who are experienced software engineers.
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"One of the best things about working at The Bodleian... Pretending to be a PhD student..."
Dan's boss posted pictures to her LinkedIn of her pretending to be a PhD student, so Dan shares the ones he was in (and some social media featuring his kids).