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  • Community characters in Monkey Island-style/minipops pixel art

    https://i.pinimg.com/564x/7e/4f/6c/7e4f6c029f3cad4c9aa685874c36a3f0--community-series-monkey-island.jpg (i.pinimg.com)

    found on Pinterest

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    • posted 11 June, 2018
  • Bond, Thanos, Palpatine, Thespis

    The Poetics of Empire

    The Poetics of Empire (Lewton Bus) Pop quiz: In your typical James Bond movie, who is the protagonist? Seems like a strange, obvious question, right? It’s obviously Bond. He’s the hero. He’s played by the top-billed actor. The franchise is basically named after him. So, clearly, Bond is the protagonist. Right? Put a pin in …

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  • Daft Lego

    YouTube (youtube.com)

    TECHNICally Possible (YouTube)
    You've seen Daft Punk music videos before. You've seen remixes of Daft Punk music videos before. You've seen Lego remixes of Daft Punk music videos before. But you haven't seen anything like this before (unless you've seen this before).

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  • Orkambi Protests, 22nd June 2018, Belfast and London

    Orkambi Protests, 22nd June 2018, Belfast and London (Little Fierce One) www.youtube.com/watch This video was made to raise awareness about the campaign to make a life saving cystic fibrosis medicine available on the NHS. Please share far and wide and go to a protest in… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVCZqWu5_Lk

    This video was made to raise awareness about the campaign …

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    • posted 11 June, 2018
  • Image representing post: Ideas

    Ideas

    Ideas (Invisible Bread)

    Invisible Bread

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    • posted 6 June, 2018
  • Eric Sings His New Version of "FCC Song"

    https://youtu.be/9tn1QNxEoF4 (youtu.be)

    Eric Idle (Monty Python)

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    • posted 30 May, 2018
  • GIF MD5 hashquine

    GIF MD5 hashquine - Rogdham (rogdham.net) TL;DR: Quick access to GIF MD5 hasquine ressources:

    the first GIF MD5 hashquine, created by spq (mirror)
    my hashquine and the source code to create it

    Introduction
    A few days ago, Ange Albertini retweteed an tweet from 2013 asking for a document that shows its …

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    • posted 30 May, 2018
  • In Defense of Arrested Development Season 4

    They Didn’t Make A Huge Mistake: In Defense of Arrested Development Season 4 (Freshly Popped Culture) It was overstuffed, scattershot, and occasionally quite tedious -- but also kinda brilliant? It's Arrested Development Season 4. It was overstuffed, scattershot, and occasionally quite tedious — but also kinda brilliant? It’s Arrested Development Season 4.

    ...

    Matthew Legarreta (Freshly …

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    • posted 30 May, 2018
  • Right now, you're thinking about this sentence, and this sentence is always true.

    always true

    Abstruse Goose | always true (abstrusegoose.com)

    Abstruse Goose

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  • Earth-Moon Fire Pole

    Earth-Moon Fire Pole (what-if.xkcd.com) Earth-Moon Fire Pole My son (5y) asked me today: If there were a kind of a fireman's pole from the Moon down to the Earth, how long would it take to slide all the way from the Moon to the Earth? Ramon Schönborn, Germany First, let's get a few things out …

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  • How To Set Up an OSRM Server on Ubuntu 14.04

    How To Set Up an OSRM Server on Ubuntu 14.04 | DigitalOcean (DigitalOcean) The OpenStreetMap project consists of raw map data, collected and aggregated by thousands of users. This tutorial covers the configuration and maintenance of a web service using Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM), which is based on the OpenStreetMap d The OpenStreetMap project …

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    • posted 22 May, 2018
  • Maps Showing California as an Island – The Public Domain Review

    http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/maps-showing-california-as-an-island/ (publicdomainreview.org) If California were a country its economy would be the fifth largest in the world (just ahead of the UK). Yet the tech boom is not the starkest way California has ever stood apart from its neighbours. That would surely be the maps depicting it as an island, entire of itself. Below we …

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  • Magician vs. Gambler vs. Cardist

    https://youtu.be/bxYAQ00thVA (youtu.be)

    Four Suits Magic

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  • The woman who watched 300 executions in Texas

    The woman who watched 300 executions (BBC News) A former employee of the state of Texas describes the profound effect the executions had on her.
    Texas has executed far more people than any other US state, and one former employee of the state has watched hundreds of executions unfold. She speaks to Ben Dirs …

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    • posted 7 May, 2018
  • The man with the golden blood

    The man with the golden blood (The man with the golden blood) Meet the donors, patients, doctors and scientists involved in the complex global network of rare – and very rare – blood. By Penny Bailey.


    His doctor drove him over the border. It was quicker that way: if the man donated in Switzerland, …

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