Kind: Reposts
Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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Are movies getting longer?
Are movies getting longer? (Stephen Follows) Either I’m getting older or movies are getting longer… and longer … and longer. So which is it? I took a look at the numbers. I studied the running time of the top 100 US-grossing films since 1994 (2,200 films in total) and all films shot in the UK 2005-14 (2,142 …
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The Bullshit Web
The Bullshit Web (pxlnv.com) My home computer in 1998 had a 56K modem connected to our telephone line; we were allowed a maximum of thirty minutes of computer usage a day, because my parents — quite reasonably — did not want to have their telephone shut off for an evening at a time. I remember …
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AWOOOOO
AWOOOOO | The Obscuritory (The Obscuritory) AWOO AWOOOO. AWOO AWOO AWOO AWOOOOO. AWOO AWOO AWOO AWOOOO AWOO. AWOO AWOO AWOOOO AWOO AWOO AWOOOO. AWOO AWOO AWOO AWOOOOOO AWOO AWOOOOO. AWOO AWOO AWOOOOOOO AWOO AWOOO AWOO AWOOOO AWOO. AWOO AWOO AWOO AWOO AWOOOOO AWOO AWOO AWOO. AWOO AWOOOOOO AWOOOOOO AWOOOO AWOO AWOO AWOO AWOOOOOOO AWOO AWOOOOOO …
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Ambition
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ambition (smbc-comics.com) Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal -
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Cyborg Time With Kimiko Ross
Cyborg Time With Kimiko Ross (dresdencodak.com) Previous Page Previous Page Dark Science #85 is almost finished, but in the meantime enjoy this interlude comic with indispensable cyborg knowledge! Enjoy Dresden Codak? Become a Patreon subscriber today! http://dresdencodak.com/wp-content/plugins/patron-button-and-widgets-by-codebard/images/patreo...
Dresden Codak
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Why your brain never runs out of problems to find
David Levari (The Conversation) It's a psychological quirk that when something becomes rarer, people may spot it in more places than ever. What is the 'concept creep' that lets context change how we categorize the world around us?
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Happy Pride Month!
Happy Pride Month! - Create, Discover and Share GIFs on Gfycat (Gfycat) Watch Happy Pride Month! GIF by cheshix on Gfycat. Discover more Mark Kanemura GIFs, mkik808 GIFs on Gfycat.
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Test Your Awareness : Whodunnit?
YouTube (youtube.com)
Transport for London (YouTube)
I remember when this advertisement did its original run and I loved it. I was delighted to accidentally stumble across it on the Web recently; if you haven't seen it before (and even if you have) you should give it a watch... -
Cropmarks 2018
https://rcahmw.gov.uk/cropmarks-2018/ (rcahmw.gov.uk)
The unprecedented spell of hot, dry weather across Wales has provided perfect conditions for archaeological aerial photography. As the drought has persisted across Wales, scores of long-buried archaeological sites have been revealed once again as ‘cropmarks’, or patterns of growth in ripening crops and parched grasslands. The Royal Commission’s aerial investigator Dr Toby … -
Frigid
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Frigid (smbc-comics.com) Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal -
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
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The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech
John Gordon: The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech (urbigenous.net) Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen.
There comes a time when people at a technical conference like this need something more relaxing. A change of pace. A shift of style. To put aside all that work stuff and think of something refreshingly different.
So let's talk about coding … -
Einstein's theory still passes the test: weak and strong gravity objects fall the same way
AstronNL (YouTube)
Fabulous explanation of the Strong Equivalence Principle coupled with a nice bit of recent research to prove that it holds true even in extreme gravitational fields (and therefore disproving a few interesting fringe theories). It's hard science made to enjoy like pop science: yay! Plus a Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference, … -
How To Play - Carcassonne
https://youtu.be/DJ2Si2sjHNY (youtu.be)
The Dragon's Tomb (YouTube)
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The Insane Story In The Background Of Arrested Development
The Insane Story In The Background Of Arrested Development (Cracked.com) The day that Mitchell Hurwitz starts making shallow humor is the day that we rip the mask off of Mitchell Hurwitz and find the real Mitchell Hurwitz bound in his own cellar. Throughout the first three seasons of Arrested Development, we were treated to some …
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Lateral: Game 1 with Kat Arney, Helen Arney, Simon Clark, and Sally Le Page
https://youtu.be/_xS-BIcu4ew (youtu.be)
Tom Scott (YouTube)
Tom Scott's new YouTube game show, Lateral, has just finished it's first series. Start watching from here, if you're at all interested... and you should be, it's funny and clever (albeit in a very different way to Citation Needed).