Kind: Reposts
Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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Any geocachers in /r/oxford? I've just released a 4+1 series of puzzle caches that I think you might enjoy...
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"Tube Map" of the global submarine fibre-optic cable network, produced by Oxford University
AltInternet "Tube map"
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Can I watch live on BBC iPlayer?
Probably a stupid question, but I almost never use iPlayer. This time last year, I had to dig out my (small-but-digital-capable) television from the attic and hook it up, at the last minute, rather than watching on the large-but-not-digital television attached to my computer.
So what I'm asking is: is iPlayer going to work, or … -
Outreach
Outreach
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Programming Sucks
Every friend I have with a job that involves picking up something heavier than a laptop more than twice a week eventually finds a way to slip something like this into conversation: "Bro, you don’t work hard. I just worked a 4700-hour week digging a tunnel under Mordor with a screwdriver."
They have a … -
Wrestling is fake! This contract shows that Demetrius was specifically paid-off to fall in the third round.
AltOld manuscript
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Sextiles
Sextiles
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Hey, mods: how about a Lanius flair?
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/r/ReverseReverseGIF/. For when /r/ReverseGIF feels backwards to you.
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Sometimes when you reverse a reverse GIF, what you get still looks backwards.
[this image was lost when minus.com shut down]
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Motorcycle police chase black athlete out of town, into lake
AltRace
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Children's book about a kid and an alien represented by an asterisk (*)
I read a book as a child, probably in the early 1990s, whose story sick with me but which I haven't been able to find since. The plot goes thusly: a child plays a semi text-based video game in which he controls a character (represented by an asterisk), but it later becomes apparent that … -
The Beauty in Mathematics
What is the connection between Moby Dick, accurate clocks, ski-jumps, roller coasters and cog wheels?
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Show me 'your penis'
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Behind the Scenes: Weston Library time-lapse
If the different land uses of the UK were divided up into their percentage-ratio blocks, what would a 100-second tour of the country (with each second covering a single percent of the land usage) look like?