Tag: weird
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The Piss Saga
When somebody started repeatedly leaving bottles of urine on top of a utility cabinet in his neighbourhood, filmmaker Derek Milton decided to investigate. I watched the documentary he made while doing so and... I still have no idea what to think about it.
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I was experimenting with VP8/VP9 WebM video transparency and I made a stupid thing: a URL that, if you go to it, means you'll he followed around my blog by a video of me just hanging out in the corner of the page - https://danq.me/?fool_id=06
I've added it to my list of "stupid/random things that can happen if you visit my blog on April Fools' Day": https://danq.me/fools/
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Screenshot of DanQ.me, with a transparent video overlay of Dan in the bottom right corner, waving.
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How WordPress and Tumblr are keeping the internet weird
The Verge interviews Matt Mullenweg, and Dan says nice things about it.
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The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme
Dan shares Blackle Mori's iceberg-diagram/list of computer science weirdness.
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Mackerelmedia Fish
Dan reviews Mackerelmedia Fish, a surreal game by Nathalie Lawhead, and recommends that you give it a go.
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Goat LARP
Oh, I thought: it's LARPing but with goats: well, whatever floats your goat... but no, I was wrong.
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SQLite Code Of Ethics (formerly Code of Conduct)
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Attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good you see in yourself.
Recognize always that evil is your own doing, and to impute it to yourself.
Fear the Day of Judgment.
Be in dread of hell.
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SQLite
In an age when more and more open-source projects are … -
On This Day In 2005
On this day in 2005 Paul made the Internet a fraction of a percent more-weird by cooking and eating a "Birmingham Egg". Dan's just resurrected the web page about it. You know: for posterity.
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Spooks
Work. Ho-hum.
Watched two episodes of Spooks at Bryn's new house. He's just moved to Aber to start his year in industry at the national library. Spooks is a BBC TV drama series about MI5 agents generally kicking arse. Apart from the enormous holes here and there - like the techniques for following somebody (ride a …