Kind: Reposts
Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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Forgetfulness
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Kids
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Working late.
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Worst New Social Trend
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The death of the internet
hen I was very young, before I was on the internet — even before the internet was really a thing you could “go on” — I would dial into BBSs (bulletin board systems). BBSs were kind of like private, micro-internets that people set up in their houses. You had to use a dial-up modem to …
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Ghost town 13. Night ride through the dead zone
Elena Filatova
If you've not come across her before: Elena Filatova is a Ukranian woman who periodically motorcycles through the Chernobyl exclusion zone, recording her progress and filming/photographing what she sees on her adventures. I bought her photobook the other year and I've particularly enjoyed her videos ever since. Worth a look. -
Digital Resource Lifespan
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Diary
The time capsule was buried in a secluded square in Murmansk in 1967 on the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Inside was a message dedicated to the citizens of the Communist future. At short notice, the authorities brought forward the capsule’s exhumation by ten days, to coincide with the city’s … -
Jogging from the Perspective of Animals
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Interdimensional Cable
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Enabling IPv6 Support in nginx
This is going to be a really short post, but for someone it could save an hour of life.
So, you’ve nothing to do and you’ve decided to play around with IPv6 or maybe you’re happened to be an administrator of a web service that needs to support IPv6 connectivity and you need to make your … -
New Tesla charging stations could compete with Starbucks
As Tesla expands its Supercharger network, the automaker intends to up its game, building higher-end, retail-rich locations that CEO Elon Musk has called "Mega Superchargers" but that we'll call just Megachargers.
CEO Elon Musk has speculatively described them as "like really big supercharging locations with a bunch of amenities," complete with "great restrooms, great food, amenities" … -
Bat Out Of Hell At 40: What The Hell Explains Its Appeal?
Of life’s great mysteries, surely among the most impenetrable is how Bat Out of Hell, Meat Loaf’s adolescent wet dream of an album that was released forty years ago today [October 21, 1977], came to be one of the best-selling albums in the history of the record industry, cracking the top five in some rankings, … -
Male incompetence is a subtle form of misogyny
Have you ever dated a man who ‘can’t cook’?
Do you know a guy who’s rubbish at cleaning or any other kind of domestic chore?
Of course, you do.
It might not be their fault; many men are raised in traditional families where women do all the household tasks, ironing their little prince’s pants and serving up regular, … -
My Sammelband has Frisket-Bite: A Short Glossary of Delightful Library Terms
Two weeks ago I asked Twitter if anyone had favourite obscure and/or delightful library or archival words. Here are some of the best replies:
Tête-bêche: From philately, meaning printed upside down or sideways relative to another. (Tara Robertson)
Respect des fonds: A principle in archival theory that proposes to group collections of …