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Baked Beanz [SLVimeo] [via]

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“It's about as far from the theme as you could possibly get.”

A Grade 11 student, with a summary of Sean Dixon's novel The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal due in two days, gets help from the author. It does not go particularly well.

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The sale of the century

is James Meek's dissection of the systematic re-privatisation of the UK power industry. Are you an enemy of liberal principles if you question the fact that, when local electrical engineers dig up the...

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One Nation Under a Brolly

In the 1980s, there were twee bands, and then there was Trixie's Big Red Motorbike. Formed in Shanklin, Isle of Wight in 1981, TBRM were brother and sister Mark & Mel Litten, sometimes assisted by...

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The Time Will Be 2:13 Precisely…

John Bisset & Ivor Kallincelebrate something or other, are happy, but occasionally do I'm not sure what.

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Not just a climate phenomenon

by North Atlantic Oscillation. [SLYT]

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i heard you like plotter videos

Mesmerizing: Aston Martin DB9, Space Shuttle, harmonic, Tutankhamun, locomotive, Marilyn(-esque). Slow: Art Plotter, Teapot, big!burny!mighty!Home-made: Rostock, DVD drive, with lasers!, old scanner,...

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Winter on Georgian Bay

: “Highlights of a four-month time-lapse taken from a cottage overlooking Lake Huron, during an absolutely epic winter.” [via mefi projects]

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1916.tiff: Recovering the Doves Type

(The Doves Type, previously.)

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Modern Square Kufic Tessellations

 — Shakil Akram Khan has taken the ancient art of Islamic calligraphic decoration to a whole new place.

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Queen West loses its learned gorilla

Active Surplus Electronics — purveyors of muchsurpluselectronics, weirdstuff, user of reallyquitesarcasticlabels, home of ProfessorBanana, and Queen W fixture/oddity — is moving away at the end of the...

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The first person to ever really *tune* a banjo …

Bill Keith, creator of melodic bluegrass and the mechanical wonders that are Keith Banjo D-Tuners (used here), has left us.

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Girih Tile Designer

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1, 2, 3, 4 Channels Working Overtime

Chiptune XTC covers:Funk Pop A RollEarn Enough For UsThe Mayor of SimpletonBooks Are BurningEaster Theatre (via Chalkhills on fb.)

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See, that right there is a tip-off …

“In 2005, [Pat Kelly] met another 'thought leader' and I asked him how he became a 'thought leader' and he said 'I don't know.'It was then that I knew I could be one too.” (Alternate Link)

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“almost always the highlight of my RSS feed”

Kev, the curator of long-time MeFi favourite aggregator of silliness Nothing To Do With Arbroath (previously) has passed away.

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0x100 bytes, no filler

A Mind Is Born is a C64 demo with a driving hypnotic soundtrack. The program is 256 bytes long. How it works: A Mind Is Born

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Unleashing grumpy-old-man Skynet on the academic world

Tabatha Southey asks: Is Jordan Peterson the stupid man’s smart person?

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How to make seven really large mirrors

Tucked under the east wing of the UA football stadium is the University of Arizona's Richard F. Caris Mirror Laboratory. Since 2005, they've been casting and polishing the giant mirrors for the Giant...

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“Do one thing for me, Sredni Vashtar.”

Sredni Vashtar— introduced by Stephen Fry and read by Susie Grimshaw.

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