Kind: Reposts
Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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Imogen Heap: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Imogen Heap demonstrates how she uses her Mi.Mu gloves as an expressive music manipulation tool, and then goes on to sing the most haunting rendition of Hide and Seek you'll ever hear.
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I Staked Out My Local Dominos to See Just How Accurate Its Pizza Tracker Is
Brian VanHooker tests the accuracy of the Dominos' Pizza Tracker by stalking his local delivery driver. Top-class investigative journalism.
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I Put Words on this Webpage so You Have to Listen to Me Now
Christine Dodrill is angry with the way that people use tool to do thing.
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Y'all wanna hear a story about the time I accidentally transported a brick of heroin from Los Angeles to Seattle?
The story of two guys accidentally transporting a shit-ton of drugs. Epic.
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£20 for a boiled egg, one piece of toast and a mug of tea?
A Twitter thread about one man's experience of a London cafe where he made his own boiled egg and soldiers and paid £20... and why that's great.
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The problem with single page apps
Chris Ferdinandi shares his concerns about SPAs, and I echo with my own.
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Visit the Ashmolean Museum
Keep an eye out for our youngest (and, briefly, me!) in this promotional video just released by the Ashmolean Museum.
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Look After Lorcán
Dan's friend Jen's two-year-old son Lorcán suffers from cystic fibrosis, and can't get the medicine he needs. Can you help?
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Berlin 8:00 a.m.
A great (interactive) demonstration of how and why phantom traffic jams occur: why some people wanting to drive faster can result in EVERYBODY having to drive slower!
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How to Draw a Horse
Dan reshares a comic about... drawing horses? Is that it? Really?
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The last Soviet citizen: The cosmonaut who was left behind in space - Russia Beyond
Repost of the story of Sergei Krikalev, who was aboard Mir when the Soviet Union collapsed and found himself both stateless and weightless.
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Reducing motion with the picture element
A simple, elegant way to use an inline CSS media query to provide "prefers-reduced-motion" support on animated content.
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Goat LARP
Oh, I thought: it's LARPing but with goats: well, whatever floats your goat... but no, I was wrong.
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Caverna Do Dragão
Remember that 80s TV show Dungeons & Dragons? It turns out that Renault's target customer base in Brazil do, too.
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The man who made Einstein world-famous
A fascinating BBC News story about how astronomer Arthur Stanley Eddington helped the world "discover" the genius of Albert Einstein.