🔗 The Up-Goer Five Text Editor

The Up-Goer Five Text Editor Can you explain a hard idea uso g only the ten hundred most used words? It’s not very easy. Type in the box to try it out.

March 25, 2024 · 1 min · 32 words
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💭 Navigating people: The antisocial guide to survive social gatherings

Guide to being invisible in a crowded party. The subtle art of staying present and mingling with people, at the same time absent without engaging, all without raising suspicion.

July 10, 2023 · 7 min · 1365 words

🔗 The New Devil’s Dictionary

Spot on! 🙂 Android (n.) : A mobile operating system, generally seen as inferior to iOS. See iOS iOS (n.): A mobile operating system, generally seen as inferior to Android. See Android (via Tao of Mac ) Source: The New Devil’s Dictionary

August 10, 2015 · 1 min · 42 words

🏞 Reactions to New Technology

August 4, 2015 · 0 min · 0 words

🏞 Scrum, in theory vs. in practice

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March 22, 2015 · 1 min · 8 words

🏞 Boogieman

somecallmekek: great sacrifices must be made

February 24, 2015 · 1 min · 6 words

📺 Everything You Hate About Advertising

(via Everything You Hate About Advertising in One Fake Video That’s Almost Too Real | Adweek) This is a Generic Brand Video Made entirely with stock footage from Dissolve … and adding to the shopping card all the licensed clips of this 2:30 movie would set you back: Total: $6,645.00 USD yikes! :-/ ( Source: https://www.youtube.com/ )

March 26, 2014 · 1 min · 57 words

📜 Everybody is somebody else’s monster

Everybody is somebody else’s monster. Greg Knauss (via An Entirely Other Day: The Empathy Vacuum )

March 12, 2014 · 1 min · 16 words

🔗 30 Reasons Why James Blunt Won At Twitter In 2013 | The Poke:

30 Reasons Why James Blunt Won At Twitter In 2013 | The Poke: Marmite pop star James Blunt has been returning perfectly crafted smackdowns at trolls who take a pop at him on Twitter.

February 26, 2014 · 1 min · 34 words

🏞 Questions vs. Answers

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January 3, 2014 · 1 min · 40 words

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::: {style=“margin-bottom:5px”} If programming languages were religion{target="_blank"} from katherine goodier{target="_blank"} ::: (via If programming languages were religion ) I originally wrote this article in December 15, 2008, and posted it on the Aegisub blog. I’m re-posting it here for archival purposes. — Rodrigo Monteiro ( Source: http://www.slideshare.net/ )

October 22, 2013 · 1 min · 48 words

🏞 Her Diary vs. His Diary

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July 26, 2013 · 2 min · 267 words

🏞 Every new technology…

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June 1, 2013 · 1 min · 43 words

🔗 Dicionário algarvio de termos e dizeres do Algarve (já com o novo acordo ortográfico) | Vitor Madeira

Dicionário algarvio de termos e dizeres do Algarve (já com o novo acordo ortográfico) | Vitor Madeira Eis o esboço para a grande obra a inaugurar em breve, o grande “Dicionário algarvio de termos e dizeres do Algarve (já com o nove acorde ortugráfique)”

May 31, 2013 · 1 min · 44 words

🏞 Date Formats (ISO 8601)

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April 4, 2013 · 1 min · 27 words

🏞 Text from Dog

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January 7, 2013 · 1 min · word

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Technology giants at war: Another game of thrones | The Economist (via Charted Territory – Tao of Mac )

December 4, 2012 · 1 min · 19 words

🔗 Google Maps Art

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September 19, 2012 · 1 min · 59 words

🏞 When will we forget?

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August 17, 2012 · 1 min · 31 words

🔗 Sleep Talkin’ Man

Sleep Talkin’ Man My mild-mannered English husband Adam lives quite a colorful existence in his dreams. Having benefited from hours of delight at his dead-of-night musings, I thought it only fair to share them with the world.

May 12, 2012 · 1 min · 37 words