Blog
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Review of Oxy Oriental
This review of Oxy Oriental originally appeared on Google Maps. See more reviews by Dan. Oxy Oriental, 6, Ozone Leisure Park, Grenoble Rd, Oxford OX4 4XP, United Kingdom. Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
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Review of Ben Nevis Inn & Bunkhouse
This review of Ben Nevis Inn & Bunkhouse originally appeared on Google Maps. See more reviews by Dan. Ben Nevis Inn & Bunkhouse, Achintee Rd, Achintee, Fort William PH33 6TE, United Kingdom. Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
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Iraq's Post-ISIS Campaign of Revenge
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The next suspect insisted that he had been arrested by mistake—that his name was similar to that of someone in ISIS. A private defense lawyer explained that his client had confessed to ISIS affiliation under torture—he had a medical examination to prove it—but none of the judges appeared to be listening. As the lawyer spoke, … -
Toddler Feelings Helpline
Hello, you have reached the Toddler Feelings Helpline. Please choose from the following options:
— If Mama went to the store for a minute but you are pretty sure she’s never coming back, please mash all of the keys but mostly 1.
— If you still feel pretty messed up about how they were just going to … -
Ungulation
Oglaf -
Elemental haiku
Chlorine
Low road or high road?
World War I. Gas in trenches.
Or salt shared, tears shed.
Science Magazine
A haiku for every element on the periodic table up to atomic weight 103, and also one for the as-yet-unsynthesised ununennium, I especially like magnesium's. -
Ending on a High
Dan marks the New Year by climbing Ben Nevis.
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2004 called, @virginmedia. They asked me to remind you that maximum password lengths and prohibiting pasting makes your security worse, not better.
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"All #boardgames can be legacy games if you want it enough!" - @fleeblewidget, after drunkenly stumbling upon @thegodzillagirl's label maker. -
Fixing Social Media
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
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Summit of Ben Nevis with Robin (on almost the shortest day of the year) to finish off his 52 Reflect project. -
Found GCG6XD Britain's highest Geocache
This checkin to GCG6XD Britain's highest Geocache reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found today at 11:30 with Robin, whose ascent marked his final expedition this year as part of his 52reflect.com project. I've been up here many, many times before since this cache was placed (and some before) but …
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Making single color SVG icons work in dark mode
In a project I work on, we had a couple of buttons that consisted of just icons (with visually hidden help text). The awesome QA engineer I worked with, found some of those did not show up in dark mode, which rendered the buttons unusable for users of that mode. Using inline SVGs with currentColor …
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So, a shipment of crickets for the lizard arrived via FedEx today...
So, a shipment of crickets for the lizard arrived via FedEx today. It was my first time ordering bulk crickets off the internet, and I naively assumed that they would be in like, a bag or some other contraption to facilitate easy transfer to another container. They were not.
They were in a cardboard box. And … -
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!