Kind: Reposts
Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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Is it just me, or is this some fantastic fucking casting. For the first time perhaps ever, I feel confident that a remake of an already-good film has the potential to be awesome. -
@RespectableLaw on North Sentinel Island
There's been a lot of talk about the missionary killed by the natives of North Sentinel Island. They're probably so aggressive because of this weirdo, Maurice Vidal Portman. So here's a big thread about this creep and some facts from my decade-long obsession with the island.
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Love is a Gift
Phil Beastall (YouTube)
I'm not cryin, you're crying. Shut up. It's just really dusty in here. And I think somebody must have been cutting onions. -
What Kind of Person Steals Their Co-workers' Lunch?
For the past month or two, my place of work (this very website) has been plagued by a relatively harmless but deeply mystifying figure: the phantom lunch thief. What’s happened since has followed a trajectory sure to be familiar to anyone who’s ever worked in an office with more than, say, 30 employees: a … -
This teacher had to tell her deaf students that people can hear farts. Their reaction was hilarious.
Anna Trupiano is a first-grade teacher at a school that serves deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing students from birth through eighth grade.
In addition to teaching the usual subjects, Trupiano is charged with helping her students thrive in a society that doesn’t do enough to cater to the needs of the hard-of-hearing.
Recently, Trupiano had to teach her … -
Puzzle Montage Art by Tim Klein
Jigsaw puzzle companies tend to use the same cut patterns for multiple puzzles. This makes the pieces interchangeable, and I sometimes find that I can combine portions from two or more puzzles to make a surreal picture that the publisher never imagined. I take great pleasure in “discovering” such bizarre images lying latent, sometimes for … -
The Simple Joy of "No Phones Allowed"
A few nights ago I saw Jack White in concert. It was a wonderful night, and a big part of that was due to a new rule he has imposed on all his tour dates: no phones.
When you arrive, you have to put your phone into a neoprene pouch, supplied by a company called Yondr, … -
"Ribbon", by Eric Chien
Eric Chien (YouTube)
Possibly the most-spectacular and well-delivered magic routine I've ever seen. I've watched it about a dozen times so far, and loved it every single one of them. -
Push without notifications
On the first day of Indie Web Camp Berlin, I led a session on going offline with service workers. This covered all the usual use-cases: pre-caching; custom offline pages; saving pages for offline reading.
But on the second day, Sebastiaan spent a fair bit of time investigating a more complex use of service workers with the … -
IndieWeb Comic
Yulia (hag.social)
Still not on board with the IndieWeb? Here's an explanation about what you're missing. -
Drowning cow saved by 'mermaid' on 200-mile swim
A drowning cow was rescued from a river by a passing "mermaid" on a 200-mile swim of the Thames.
Lindsey Cole splashed into the river in a wetsuit, tail and hat at Lechlade, Gloucestershire, on Friday. She is raising awareness of the environmental effects of single-use plastic.
As she passed through Oxfordshire on Sunday, she … -
Hands on with neural-network toolkit LIME: Come now, you sourpuss. You've got some explaining to do
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How well does the algorithm perform? Setting it up to work in LIME can be a bit of a pain, depending on your environment. The examples on Tulio Ribeiro's Github repo are in Python and have been optimised for Jupyter notebooks. I decided to get the code for a basic image analyser running in a … -
Harlot's Web
Perry Bible Fellowship
Funny throughout, and a fabulous final twist that could only be described as perhaps seasonally-too-soon. -
Why the pencil is perfect
Caroline Weaver (TED)
I love to discover people who are hugely and deeply passionate about things that seem inconsequential to the rest of the world. Especially when they're especially able to express that passion and how exciting their special-thing is, to them. This video (and to a lesser extent the others in the Small … -
The International Flag of Planet Earth
The International Flag of Planet Earth
Inspirational, well thought-out proposal for a flag for unified, "for Earth" projects. The website is terrible, but the artwork's great, and it's always nice to see an artist focus on the idea of "uniting humanity" in spite of our politically-fractured world.