Category Archives: Awesome

May 02

I’m on App.net

I’ve talked about App.net before, but it wasn’t possible to sign up until recently. But now that I have I’ve discovered that it’s the Twitter I wish still existed; I’m a convert. No advertisements disguised as “promoted tweets”, just posts … Read More

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May 02

Just the contents of an old chest in the attic

Over on reddit they have a forum, or as they call it subreddit, called WhatsInThisThing?, that grew from a post someone made about a vault they found in their house and the efforts around getting into it to see what … Read More

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Apr 26

Listen to Alexander Graham Bell

He invented the telephone and his voice was the first to be transmitted by it yet what he sounded like was lost to history. Or at least it was. Bell spent a number of years trying to improve on the … Read More

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Apr 12

The Jayne’s Hat controversy or why I hate Fox

You might have heard that Fox is going after knitters on Etsy who are selling replicas of Jayne’s hat from Firefly. This, despite having cancelled the show before it completed its first season. In response, ThinkGeek is donating 100% of … Read More

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Apr 11

Felix Baumgartner’s Story

William Langewiesche writes in Vanity Fair about Felix Baumgartner, the Austrian stunt jumper who successfully jumped from 24 miles above New Mexico. If you thought it took a lot of planning and effort to pull that jump off, you don’t … Read More

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