Bikes may still look roughly the same, but looks can be deceiving.
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👓 Douglas Rain: Actor who voiced Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey dies | BBC News
Canadian actor Douglas Rain voiced the chilling computer in the landmark sci-fi film.
👓 The cost of renting in the UK in seven charts | BBC News
The typical one-bed home in England costs £600 a month to rent, but this hides a big divide across the country.
👓 Stan Lee: Spider-Man, X-Men and Avengers creator dies aged 95 | the Guardian
Almost as famous as his Marvel superheroes, Lee was known for bringing complex emotional life to cartoon characters
👓 Archbishop apologises over handling of abuse claims against Tolkien son | the Guardian
Church paid settlement to avoid disclosing knowledge of indecency in 1968, hearing told
👓 Recap of An Introduction to Microformats | gRegorLove.com
gRegor Morrill (gregorlove.com)I gave a talk on microformats Wednesday night at the San Diego PHP Meetup group. This was my first time giving a formal talk on the topic. I think it went pretty well and I got some good feedback. There was a lot of information and links covered (and some I forgot) so I decided to make a summary pos...
Wish I could have attended the presentation, but thanks for the recap and links to the resources.
👓 WordPress 5.0 needs a different timeline | Joost.blog
For the last few months, the WordPress developer community has been moving towards a release of WordPress 5.0. This is the highly anticipated release that will contain the new Gutenberg editing experience. It’s arguably one of the biggest leaps forward in WordPress’ editing experience and its de...
👓 Rethinking The Web, The Internet, And Our Roles Within | More Themes Baby
Go indie, go punk, call it web, notice the good support, and offer an alternative to the old-school, advertising-based, closed internet.
A clarion call on the open internet for more of the open internet (aka IndieWeb.)
👓 The Problem With Feedback | The Atlantic
Companies and apps constantly ask for ratings, but all that data may just be noise in the system.
A great framing of a lot of crazy digital exhaust that online services and apps are collecting that don’t do much. I’ve also thought for a while about the idea of signal to noise ratio of these types of data as well as their quantization levels which often don’t make much sense to me. I don’t think that there are any IndieWeb realizations of these sorts of (mostly business) systems in the wild yet, but this is an important area to begin to consider when they do.
👓 A Note on Steve King | Weekly Standard
The congressman disputed a story we reported. We stand by it.
I’m curious about the statistics on the number of people that read this versus the number that listened to the attached audio. I suspect the latter was a tiny fraction, which means that to some extent that the outlet wins. In the end it’s nice to have access to the original sources of reporting like this.
👓 How the GOP Gave Up on Porn | Politico
Once, the fight against pornography was the beating heart of the American culture war. Now porn is a ballooning industry—and maybe a harmful one—with no real opponents. What happened?
👓 Creating Custom RSS Feeds in WordPress – The Right Way | Philip Newcomer
There are a lot of tutorials floating around the internet that describe how to create a custom RSS feed in WordPress. Most of them have you creating a new page template, copying the code that WordPress uses to generate feeds into the page … Continue reading →
I’ve run into a lot of the sort of tutorials that Philip is talking about. This way, while more sophisticated and non-intuitive to the non-profession, seems much more solid. Makes me want to play around.
👓 Man fired after wearing t-shirt with noose on it | ABC13
A Mississippi man was fired from his job at a hospital for wearing the wrong shirt to the polls.
👓 Twenty things I wish I’d known when I started my PhD | Nature
Recent PhD graduate Lucy A. Taylor shares the advice she and her colleagues wish they had received.
👓 Sci-Fi Writer Greg Egan and Anonymous Math Whiz Advance Permutation Problem | Quanta Magazine
A new proof from the Australian science fiction writer Greg Egan and a 2011 proof anonymously posted online are now being hailed as significant advances on a puzzle mathematicians have been studying for at least 25 years.
I wonder what happens when the reverse process is run on numbers like pi? This could be an interesting thing to take a look at in my current math class.