Kind: Reposts
Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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This Video Is 2D And 3D Simultaneously: the Pulfrich Effect
This Video Is 2D And 3D Simultaneously: the Pulfrich Effect (YouTube) Hold on tight, because with a stabilised camera shot and a pair of sunglasses, you're about to see a video that works in both 2D and 3D at the same time. The...
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This Old Tech: Remembering WorldsAway's avatars and virtual experiences
This Old Tech: Remembering WorldsAway's avatars and virtual experiences (PCWorld) The year was 1995, and CompuServe's online service cost $4.95 per hour. Yet thousands of people logged into this virtual world daily.
WorldsAway was born 20 years ago, when Fujitsu Cultural Technologies, a subsidiary of Japanese electronics giant Fujitsu, released this online experiment in multiplayer … -
Quantum Weirdness
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HBD Not Dogs Birmingham!
Not Dogs: HBD Not Dogs Birmingham! (blog.notdogs.com) false We cannot believe were a year old this week! It feels like only yesterday we were opening the doors and anxiously standing, hoping that someone would like the look of our new restaurant and come and visit us! Thankfully, you did over 100,000 of you this year! …
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@misterjta, 31 Dec 2017
John Trevor-Allen on Twitter (Twitter) 1997 was the year my family got torn up when my dad was killed. Which became the reason I joined @NightlineAssoc. And @samaritans. And @BritishRedCross, and @3RingsCIC. The reason, basically, I discovered how important it was to be there for people that can't go through it alone.
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How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016
How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016 – Hacker Noon (hackernoon.com)
No JavaScript frameworks were created during the writing of this article.
The following is inspired by the article “It’s the future” from Circle CI. You can read the original here. This piece is just an opinion, and like any JavaScript framework, … -
Google Maps's Moat
Google Maps’s Moat (Justin O’Beirne) How far ahead of Apple Maps is Google Maps?
Over the past year, we’ve been comparing Google Maps and Apple Maps in New York, San Francisco, and London—but some of the biggest differences are outside of large cities.
Take my childhood neighborhood in rural Illinois. Here … -
How Not to Do Brownies
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The Nuclear Threat - The Shadow Peace, Part 1
Neil Halloran
This series already looks awesome with its compelling visuals and strong message. The video's interactive (!) if you view it via the official website, and I'm backing the creator on Patreon to help him make more content like this (and particularly a second part to The Shadow Peace). -
"Polyamory" became a top relationship search topic in 2017
We seem to be finally, actually doing it: making the whole world aware of the polyamorous possibility. That's Elisabeth Sheff's term for discovering that happy, ethical multi-loving relationships are even possible, that people are successfully doing them right now, and that maybe you can too.
Every December, Google announces the year's top trending search terms compared … -
Reaching people on the internet
The Oatmeal
As somebody who likes to keep his content on his own server (y'know: right here!) but whose readers sometimes prefer that it's syndicated to e.g. Facebook (as it is), I appreciate this comic by The Oatmeal. -
Daily Physio for Cystic Fibrosis
Jen & Lorcán (Little Fierce One)
My friend Jen's been blogging and vlogging about cystic fibrosis - which her young son Lorcán has - in order to raise awareness of it and of a promising new treatment, Orkambi, which would very likely dramatically improve the lifespan and health of chidren like Lorcán... were it available … -
I Made My Shed the Top Rated Restaurant On TripAdvisor
Once upon a time, long before I began selling my face by the acre for features on VICE dot com, I worked other jobs. There was one in particular that really had an impact on me: writing fake reviews on TripAdvisor. Restaurant owners would pay me £10 and I'd write a positive review of their …
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Secure Messaging Apps Comparison
SecureMessagingApps.com
This site maintains a table cross-referencing the most popular "secure" messaging apps (WhatsApp, Signal, Skype etc.) against their security features, so that you can make an informed decision.
The tl;dr is, of course, what I've been saying all along: use Signal! (at least until Riot is more mature...) -
If The World Was Created By A Programmer
Toggl