Kind: Articles
Traditional long form content: a post with an explicit title and body.
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Alpha-Gal and the Gaia Hypothesis
A tick bite can make you allergic to non-primate mammals. Gaia hypothesis advocates might suggest that the increase in frequency of such bites is an example of the Earth fighting back against intensive farming's impact on climate.
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Second Factor Safety Net
If your phone is your second-factor, what happens when you lose it? Dan shares his backup strategies and encourages you to think about your own.
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Poly Parents Evening
Ruth, JTA and Dan went to a school parents' evening as a trio. And everything was fine.
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Bodleian Advent Calendar
This year's digital advent calendar from the Bodleian is fabulous. And you can have one just like it.
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Edge may be becoming Chromium-powered, and that's terrible
It's rumoured that Edge might switch to Chrome's rendering engine. This would be really, really bad for the web, and it takes a 90s/00s web developer to remind you why.
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Pong
Yesterday was World Digital Preservation Day, so Dan reimplemented Pong for the video wall at the Bodleian.
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How My Stupid Bloody Name Finally Paid For Itself
For 11½ years, Dan's name's caused him trouble. But this month, for the first time, it earned him money.
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Challenge Robin II
Following the success of Challenge Robin earlier this year, Robin's sent out on his toughest adventure yet...
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Shadows Out of Time
Dan adapts the Bodleian's Halloween CYOA adventure gamebook into a Twine/Chapbook powered piece of interactive fiction for your browser. Play it now!
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The Story of Scgary
In the early 2000s, as a volunteer trainer at Aberystwyth Nightline, I invented a roleplay scenario which drew upon anecdotes from my childhood and young adulthood... which eventually lead to a collision of worlds for Ruth and JTA when they, former volunteers, MET the person behind many of those anecdotes...
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How Few Votes Can Win a UK General Election?
What's the minimum number of votes a party can get and still win a UK general election? Let's try to find an answer...
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Mystery Pipe
There's a strange pipe on this steam locomotive. Can you guess what it's for?
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An Unusual Workday
Not every day at Dan's work involves bear masks, augmented reality, podcasting, and hacking. But this one did.
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20 Years Of Blogging
Come next week, Dan will have been blogging for 20 years. A lightweight retrospective.
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IndieWebCamp Oxford
While hanging out at IndieWebCamp Oxford, Dan adds progressively-enhanced panoramic WebVR technology to his blog.