Kind: Reposts
Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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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?
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TIL that the "holes" in Swiss cheese were, until recently, seen as a sign of imperfection and something cheesemakers tried to avoid
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Three types of bacteria are used in the production of Emmental: Streptococcus thermophilus, Lactobacillus helveticus, and Propionibacterium freudenreichii. Historically, the holes were a sign of imperfection, and until modern times, cheese makers would try to avoid them. Emmental cheese is used in a variety of dishes, particularly in gratins, and fondue, where it is mixed … -
I thought that I was already playing in HD, but now they want to sell me this add-on pack to give me HD vision. What gives?
Alt"HD Vision" glasses
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Hi /r/polyamory!
How are you spending your Valentines' Day? With somebody special? With several special people? Boycotting the celebration entirely?
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Geek Week Remake/Homage to the classic series (because nobody's posted anything else in /r/knightmare...)
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Doing a book test twist; does it sound original? Compelling?
I've got a twist on a book test that I'm hoping to work into a performance in a couple of weeks time (cabaret-size), and I was wondering if anybody's got any thoughts about it. Specifically: does it sound compelling?
The effect: I'll be following on from a couple of other mentalist effects and selling this … -
Before we had the Oxford Tube/X90, we had this. It only cost £1, but on the other hand it took eight hours...
Timetables uncovered by Memory Lane reader David Brown show that a stagecoach service was operating between the two cities as late as 1928.
You could take the stagecoach from Oxford to London, then catch a train back to Oxford, or vice versa.
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Where'd it go!? [x-post from /r/funny]
AltCat pranked by video of another cat
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#102 - Strong
Oh man. Sorry....and I'm done ( for now ). Should be another comic up next week.
Octopuns