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  • 428: Precondition Failed ("You're still sleeping with your ex-!?")

    Breakups as HTTP Response Codes

    408: Request Timeout = "You keep saying you'll propose, but you never do", and 18 other HTTP response codes expressed as relationship breakdowns.

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    • 6 comments
    • posted 22 November, 2022
  • Image representing post: Look at Banner, Dan!

    Look at Banner, Dan!

    Dan's greeted by a happy birthday banner that MIGHT have been repurposed...

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    • 9 comments
    • posted 8 January, 2021
  • Dan in his home office (links to an interactive 360° panoramic photo with info points).

    Dan's Office (360° Panoramic)

    This week, some of Dan's colleagues are sharing pictures of their workspaces. So Dan made a 360° panoramic with interactive "info points".

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    • 4 comments
    • posted 4 August, 2020
  • Image representing post: Did You Know That Animals Eating Strawberries Look Terrifying?

    Did You Know That Animals Eating Strawberries Look Terrifying?

    Eat Liver (???) shares terrifying images of animals eating strawberries.

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    • posted 28 March, 2020
  • Handwashing poster to the tune of Paul Johnson's Get Get Down.

    In these complicated times, this is how I get my groove on.

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 16 March, 2020
  • Aus Artikel von H. Coupin (Different ways of whistling with the fingers), Le Monde 1983

    Prior to the invention of nose-picking by Dr. Edwin Snotter in 1893, a variety of less-effective techniques for the removal of dried nasal mucus were widely practised.

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 10 September, 2019
  • Image representing post: Passport Photos

    Passport Photos

    Passport photo rules make self-expression impossible. Or do they?

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    • posted 23 August, 2019
  • Lena, then and now

    Finding Lena Forsen, the Patron Saint of JPEGs




    Every morning, Lena Forsen wakes up beneath a brass-trimmed wooden mantel clock dedicated to “The First Lady of the Internet.”


    It was presented to her more than two decades ago by the Society for Imaging Science and Technology, in recognition of the pivotal—and altogether unexpected—role she played in shaping the digital world as we …

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    • posted 1 February, 2019
  • Soviet Control Room

    The Vintage Beauty Of Soviet Control Rooms



    Design You Trust
    Click through for many, many more.

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    • posted 25 January, 2019
  • Image representing post: Note #12726



    How did our parents cope with just I-spy and 99 green bottles on -hour journeys? This is definitely the way to hypnotise kids in the car!

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    • 5 comments
    • posted 29 December, 2018
  • Iron Horse, by Tim Klein

    Puzzle Montage Art by Tim Klein



    Jigsaw puzzle companies tend to use the same cut patterns for multiple puzzles. This makes the pieces interchangeable, and I sometimes find that I can combine portions from two or more puzzles to make a surreal picture that the publisher never imagined. I take great pleasure in “discovering” such bizarre images lying latent, sometimes for …

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    • posted 13 November, 2018
  • Isochronic map of world travel from London in 1914 and 2016.

    A 2016 version of the 1914 Isochronic London/World travel times map



    Imgur

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 28 October, 2018
  • The Oxford Experience infographic

    The "Oxford University Experience" infographic [x-post /r/oxforduni]

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    • posted 18 May, 2015
  • "Keep Closed" "Push" "Pull" signs on doors

    Or push. We don't care. But we ARE polite about it.

    Alt"Keep Closed" "Push" "Pull" signs on doors

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    • posted 14 January, 2015
  • Woman cutting vegetables with dog behind; from this angle, she looks like a centaur.

    A centaur cutting vegetables in her kitchen [x-post /r/misleadingthumbnails]

    AltWoman cutting vegetables with dog behind; from this angle, she looks like a centaur.

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    • posted 21 October, 2014

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