Kind: Reposts
Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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Normally-respectable news provider the BBC interviews "terrorist puppet?". WTF, BBC?
AltTerrorist puppet
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ELI5 "TheRedPill" and its incomprehensible terminology
A couple of recent posts in /r/bestof (one, two) drew my attention to /r/TheRedPill, which I'd not come across before. I looked at that subreddit... and I still don't get it.
It's... something like The Game, right? All that stuff about "easy, foolproof" ways to get laid? But the entire subreddit just talks about red … -
The Community Solar System
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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We need to talk about TED
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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Yo dawg, I heard you like gold on your gold on your gold.
[this post was originally made to a private subreddit]
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habeas corpus
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Inefficient Rulers
Golomb Rulers and Costas Arrays.
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Social engineering
GoldieBlox have been in the news (by which I mean the blogs) a lot lately because of their Princess Machine video. In case you missed the memo, GoldieBlox do engineering toys for girls, by which they mean a) they’re pink, and b) they’ve got stories, because girls need everything to have a story. Think I’m…
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Visual Cryptography
How to create perfect secret messages that can be decoded using just your eyes.
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Dressing up
A few months ago now (OK, this post has sat in drafts for a while) when I came to pick my daughter up from nursery I found her wearing a pink ‘fairy skirt’ (something like a tutu). “Her trousers and her spare trousers both got wet and it was the only thing we could find!”…
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I'm worried about whatseventhepoint on /r/self
Posted 3 hours ago; sounds like they could do with some help:
I don't know what to do anymore. I've exhausted any little hope I'd had, and now there's nothing.
I just want it to be over. By any means necessary.
http://www.reddit.com/r/self/comments/1qw4tm/i_feel_like_everything_i_do_is_inherently_stupid/
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Why You Should Never Use MongoDB
Disclaimer: I do not build database engines. I build web applications. I run 4-6 different projects every year, so I build a lot of web applications. I see apps with different requirements and different data storage needs. Ive deployed most of the data stores youve heard about, and a few that you probably havent. I’ve picked the wrong…
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"We. Are. Carnivore. Period." (TIL that eating plants, language, and science are destroying the world)
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The most pointless use of YouTube ever? A 6-hour video of a Windows desktop while the computer microphone points out of the window.
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Owl in flight [x-post from /r/pics]
AltOwl in flight