Kind: Reposts
Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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Geek Week Remake/Homage to the classic series (because nobody's posted anything else in /r/knightmare...)
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Doing a book test twist; does it sound original? Compelling?
I've got a twist on a book test that I'm hoping to work into a performance in a couple of weeks time (cabaret-size), and I was wondering if anybody's got any thoughts about it. Specifically: does it sound compelling?
The effect: I'll be following on from a couple of other mentalist effects and selling this … -
Before we had the Oxford Tube/X90, we had this. It only cost £1, but on the other hand it took eight hours...
Timetables uncovered by Memory Lane reader David Brown show that a stagecoach service was operating between the two cities as late as 1928.
You could take the stagecoach from Oxford to London, then catch a train back to Oxford, or vice versa.
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Where'd it go!? [x-post from /r/funny]
AltCat pranked by video of another cat
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#102 - Strong
Oh man. Sorry....and I'm done ( for now ). Should be another comic up next week.
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Normally-respectable news provider the BBC interviews "terrorist puppet?". WTF, BBC?
AltTerrorist puppet
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ELI5 "TheRedPill" and its incomprehensible terminology
A couple of recent posts in /r/bestof (one, two) drew my attention to /r/TheRedPill, which I'd not come across before. I looked at that subreddit... and I still don't get it.
It's... something like The Game, right? All that stuff about "easy, foolproof" ways to get laid? But the entire subreddit just talks about red … -
The Community Solar System
If the different land uses of the UK were divided up into their percentage-ratio blocks, what would a 100-second tour of the country (with each second covering a single percent of the land usage) look like?
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We need to talk about TED
If the different land uses of the UK were divided up into their percentage-ratio blocks, what would a 100-second tour of the country (with each second covering a single percent of the land usage) look like?
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Yo dawg, I heard you like gold on your gold on your gold.
[this post was originally made to a private subreddit]
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habeas corpus
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Inefficient Rulers
Golomb Rulers and Costas Arrays.
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Social engineering
GoldieBlox have been in the news (by which I mean the blogs) a lot lately because of their Princess Machine video. In case you missed the memo, GoldieBlox do engineering toys for girls, by which they mean a) they’re pink, and b) they’ve got stories, because girls need everything to have a story. Think I’m…
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Visual Cryptography
How to create perfect secret messages that can be decoded using just your eyes.
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Dressing up
A few months ago now (OK, this post has sat in drafts for a while) when I came to pick my daughter up from nursery I found her wearing a pink ‘fairy skirt’ (something like a tutu). “Her trousers and her spare trousers both got wet and it was the only thing we could find!”…
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