Kind: Reposts
Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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21 Books You Don't Have to Read (and 21 you should read instead)
The 21 Most Overrated Books Ever (and 21 Books to Read Instead) (GQ) GQ asked its favorite new authors to dunk on the classics. We've been told all our lives that we can only call ourselves well-read once we've read the Great Books. We tried. We got halfway through Infinite Jest and halfway through the …
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Far Cry 5 review
Far Cry 5 review (Polygon) A horrible story ruins an enjoyable world Far Cry 5 had the potential to say something interesting by setting the game in America, but its murky story and themes do more to taint the game’s fantastic and playful open world than to give it purpose and meaning.
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Precise Slice
http://buttersafe.com/2018/03/08/precise-slice/ (buttersafe.com)
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You can see the punchline coming from a mile away but it's still awesome. -
Violin Plots
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Is that supposed to be a flower or... OHHHH! This is a question I've asked before... -
Lure
http://buttersafe.com/2018/03/01/lure/ (buttersafe.com)
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Dwitter
Dwitter is a community of <canvas> artists who write Javascript programs of no more than 140 characters to produce beautiful graphical output. Some favourites: Bluer waves, d/3697, d/4388. If the demoscene were invented today, this is what it might look like. -
Visualisation of bike rides around Tampa, Florida
A visualisation of bike rides around Tampa, Florida, taken from the GPS logs of bike-sharing scheme Coast Bikes' vehicles. -
Ride the World's Longest Zipline in the UAE
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Games to Play With Your Child in Which You Barely Have to Move or Talk
Games to Play With Your Child in Which You Barely Have to Move or Talk by by Raquel D'Apice (The Ugly Volvo) I see a lot of ideas online for things to do with your child, but most of them are a lot of work. Many of them involve an unnerving amount of craftiness and/or …
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Storytime: Rebel Lieutenant
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We've Always Hated Girls Online: A Wayback Machine Investigation
We’ve Always Hated Girls Online: A Wayback Machine Investigation by Julianne Aguilar (Longreads) Julianne Aguilar | Longreads | February 2018 | 14 minutes (2,894 words) Once upon a time, in 1999, when the internet was small, when it came through your phone and not just on your phone, when the first browser war had not …
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Faceswapping, Unethical Videos, and Future Shock
Faceswapping, Unethical Videos, and Future ShockYouTube (youtube.com)
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Launching An Entire Fireworks Display At Once
Tom Scott - YouTube (YouTube) Hi, I'm Tom Scott. These are some of the things I've made and done. They'll probably come back to haunt me in a few years' time. (Want to get in touch about ...
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Payment Options
http://buttersafe.com/2018/02/20/payment-options/ (buttersafe.com)
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2018 CVE List
xkcd: 2018 CVE List (xkcd.com)
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