Tag: imported from reddit
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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
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Kitten vs. wipers [x-post from just about everywhere, but we know it belongs here]
AltKitten chasing windscreen wipers
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Something like HTTPS Everywhere for new Opera?
I'm looking for an extension that will automatically redirect-to-HTTPS for particular domains, e.g. to ensure that I'm using the secure version of Wikipedia, etc., whenever I go there. The HTTPS Everywhere plugin from the EFF does this for Firefox and Chrome; what can I do to make this work in Opera?
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Playerbase growth is exponential! Surely this can't continue?
AltWorld population curve
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TIL that in 1916, a conman called Sir Edmund Backhouse, claiming to be working for the Chinese government, sold the UK six (non-existent) battleships and an (imaginary) flotilla-load of rifles.
[since originally being published on Reddit, the resource in question has been moved to http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-30513]
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RoΕia MontanΔ: the richest village you've never heard of. Until 94% of the gold they're sat on goes to Canada.
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TIL that "Lawnchair" Larry Walters, who flew to 16,000 feet using weather balloons tied to a lawn chair in 1982, shot himself eleven years later.
LARRY WALTERS FOUND FAME AT 16.000 feet. On July 2,1982, the 33-year-old truck driver rigged 42 helium-filled weather balloons to a Sears lawn chair in San Pedro, Calif., and, as friends looked on in wondrous support, lifted off. The sight of Walters floating in the sky shocked pilots, who radioed perplexed local air-traffic controllers. Walters β¦
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Proxima Centauri is 4.3 light years way: too far to travel. Why don't we just use Mercury (which has an 88 day year) as a staging ground, and launch from there?
Mercury's year is only 88 days, so if we launch a rocket from there, we only have to travel for just over 1 light year, saving time and fuel.
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Really get him going with a good, long ball-chewing.
Just take his scrotum in your mouth and pretend it's gum.
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Here, fishy fishy fishy...
AltFlying shark toy scaring a cat.
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I found a debugging river that the mods left in by accident!
Alt"River Test" highlighted on a map
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TIL that 'Hellburners', 16th century fire-ships filled with decks of gunpowder sandwiched between bricks and tombstones, are considered to be an early WMD.
Hellburners (Dutch: hellebranders) were specialised fireships used in the Siege of Antwerp (1584-1585) during the Eighty Years' War between the Dutch rebels and the Habsburgs. They were floating bombs, also called "Antwerp Fire", and did immense damage to the Spanish besiegers. Hellburners have been described as an early form of weapons of mass destruction.
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Screw you, TV Licensing. I'll write wherever I like.
Alt"This one here?" scrawled beneath the words "Please do not write below this line" on a TV Licensing form
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Tubin'
[the GIF image originally associated with this repost, https://i.minus.com/ib1ShxHQC8NlO.gif, was lost when minus.com shut down]