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The rock— It was about thirty feet long and ten feet wide, and blueish. “What an amazing panorama,” said Twoflower, his eyes shining. “Um, what’s keeping us up?” said Rincewind. “Persuasion,” said Belafon, wringing out the hem of his robe. from The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett

Just a random set of stuff I stumbled across today. The Far Side, on the web official. Cows have flown.

This isn’t something I thought I’d ever see. Pretty sweet.

I’m a bit late to this party, but the fine folks over at iA released some very interesting variable fonts. I’ve always liked using their writer; I think I’ll give these a shot in my code editor.

This looks like so much fun. Next time I’m in Michigan…

One of the best perks of working for Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, Jetpack, WooCommerce, Happy Tools, Akismet, Gravatar is that every five years you get to take a 3-month, paid sabbatical. It’s a wonderful perk, and if it sounds wonderful to you, check us out. Mine starts on Monday. So I’m unplugging from Slack,…

My wife and I thought this plan was a very bad idea. So we began to fight it. We spread the word about the plan to move the library. We talked about why this was a bad idea, and proposed alternatives. We met with other people opposed to this idea to map out strategy. But…

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Stumbled across this video about Detroit Hives, a cool little business based around transforming vacant lots around Detroit into bee farms. And they’re running on WordPress and WooCommerce!

My favorite RSS Reader is back, with its first alpha release on the new 5.0 line. I’ve been using it a couple of days now, syncing with my Feedbin account, and really enjoy it. Reading is quick and easy, just keep hitting spacebar. And I love the “Today” search, which limits my unreads to just…

I can’t stop watching these. THEY ARE SO GOOD.

I was so sad when the Tiger’s finally traded him to the Astros, but happy for him to finally get a ring.

Reminds me a bit of Momento Mori, but in the opposite direction. Source: The Man Who Tried to Count to Infinity | Moss and Fog Via: Kottke – Painting Infinity

Ah, lobbyists. Making things better for everyone.

Amazing how many of these come down to not minding the details when installing.

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How, exactly, does it differ from a popular vote? From The Electoral College, According to a Math Teacher on Math with Bad Drawings

The amazing story of how the Law Library at U of M ended up underground. To this day, one of my absolute favorite places on campus. Source: The Law School Goes Under | University of Michigan Heritage

~=8 Character Passwords Are Dead=~ New benchmark means that the entire keyspace, or every possible combination of:– Upper– Lower– Number– Symbol …of an 8 character password can be guessed in: ~2.5 hours (8x 2080 GPUs against NTLM Windows hash)https://t.co/yAwpKjr7d6 — Tinker ❎ (@TinkerSec) February 14, 2019

I miss Achewood.

ES6 modules are pretty common in new JavaScript projects. They include one feature that can be pretty surprising to folks used to CommonJS modules: live bindings. Consider the following CommonJS app you want to port to ES6: That would print: A quick port to ES6 might look like this: But this will print: name changed…

Just type /gif in the new Gutenberg editor. Love it!

This takes seasonal movement, a common problem in woodworking, to a whole new level. When it gets to be several degrees below freezing, the metal of the train tracks can contract to the point that it will pull up the bolts holding it in place, or even stress fracture. Crews will soak long pieces of…

Having a chat at work about async loading / requireJS / fun stuff.

Really nice profile on Crucible Tool in Kentucky and The Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Maine.

watching all episodes thru my phone camera now pic.twitter.com/DpRnp8TWky — ooze bastard (@dreamgrave) January 14, 2019

Reckless disregard for the dueces

MAGNETS pic.twitter.com/SCSzHNFo9W — Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) November 13, 2018 Now I want to order some magnet paper and rub it on everything in the house.

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This is like Best in Show meets American Choppers. Loved it.

Yay for continued studies. But new research has mostly failed to replicate the backfire effect, suggesting that it may not be common, if it happens at all. For instance, Andrew Guess and Alexander Coppock recently published a paper describing three experiments where they tried and failed to elicit a backfire effect, even under conditions that…

The fervor took hold in my pocket of Houston—quietly, at first, and then everywhere all at once. The Last Days of Beto Mania in Texas

On repeat forever

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How I know it’s Monday: