Kind: Reposts
Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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Iraq's Post-ISIS Campaign of Revenge
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The next suspect insisted that he had been arrested by mistake—that his name was similar to that of someone in ISIS. A private defense lawyer explained that his client had confessed to ISIS affiliation under torture—he had a medical examination to prove it—but none of the judges appeared to be listening. As the lawyer spoke, … -
Toddler Feelings Helpline
Hello, you have reached the Toddler Feelings Helpline. Please choose from the following options:
— If Mama went to the store for a minute but you are pretty sure she’s never coming back, please mash all of the keys but mostly 1.
— If you still feel pretty messed up about how they were just going to … -
Ungulation
Oglaf -
Elemental haiku
Chlorine
Low road or high road?
World War I. Gas in trenches.
Or salt shared, tears shed.
Science Magazine
A haiku for every element on the periodic table up to atomic weight 103, and also one for the as-yet-unsynthesised ununennium, I especially like magnesium's. -
Fixing Social Media
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
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Making single color SVG icons work in dark mode
In a project I work on, we had a couple of buttons that consisted of just icons (with visually hidden help text). The awesome QA engineer I worked with, found some of those did not show up in dark mode, which rendered the buttons unusable for users of that mode. Using inline SVGs with currentColor …
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So, a shipment of crickets for the lizard arrived via FedEx today...
So, a shipment of crickets for the lizard arrived via FedEx today. It was my first time ordering bulk crickets off the internet, and I naively assumed that they would be in like, a bag or some other contraption to facilitate easy transfer to another container. They were not.
They were in a cardboard box. And … -
Additional Processors
Computerphile
Computerphile at its best, here tackling the topic of additional (supplementary) processors, like FPUs, GPUs, sound processors, etc., to which CPUs outsource some of their work under specific circumstances. Even speaking as somebody who's upgraded a 386/SX to a 386/DX through the addition of a "math co-processor" (an FPU) and seeing the benefit … -
An Honest Stock Market Update
NEW YORK -- Stocks gained momentum on Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing up 48 points, reversing losses from last week's decline.
Experts hailed both moves as a "remarkable, textbook example of pure statistical chance," chalking up Monday's gains to a couple random marginal buyers being slightly more motivated than a few random marginal sellers.
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100 Years of Periods
Allure (YouTube)
Bitesize introduction to the (mostly-unspoken) history of the last century of sanitary products. It wasn't so long ago - still within living memory! - that doctors' advice was not to exercise during your period and that sanitary products had to be packaged in plain containers so as not to embarrass buyers nor … -
Brixton To Brighton By Boris Bike
The Boris bike is a magical creature – aptly named after the former mayor of London ‘Boris Johnson’. I say aptly because the bikes are heavy, chunky, provide the absolute bear minimum service and they are expensive to the public.
At £2 per half hour and with 55 miles ahead of us this was ultimately a … -
You've been... Gayageumstruck!
Luna Lee (YouTube)
AC/DC's Thunderstruck played on a Gayageum, a traditional Korean stringed instrument. You might also enjoy it performed on a pair of cellos. Or, as I shared earlier this year, sung by a 21-month-old. -
Life of Brian Modern Trailer
Stéphane Bouley (YouTube)
What if Monty Python's Life of Brian were a dramatic blockbuster theatrically released in the 2010s? It'd probably have a trailer a bit like this... -
Prime and Punishment
by Josh Dzieza For sellers, Amazon is a quasi-state. They rely on its infrastructure — its warehouses, shipping network, financial systems, and portal to millions of customers — and pay taxes in the form of fees. They also live in terror of its rules, which often change and are harshly enforced.
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...the only way back from … -
Jered Threatin
by Jessica Lussenhop “We would have been overjoyed if that many people actually turned up.”
Jessica Lussenhop (BBC News)
Remember Threatin? Earlier this year, this guy and his band played a European tour to... basically nobody. He'd faked having a successful US career, record deal, etc. and persuaded a handful of session musicians to tour …