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  1. Quote Investigator® – Tracing Quotations
    Records the investigatory work of Garson O’Toole who diligently seeks the truth about quotations. Who really said what? 🇺🇸 More info

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    Quip Origin: There Are More Horses’ Asses Than Horses
    Will Rogers? Jack Kerouac? Joseph Gurney Cannon? G. Gordon Liddy? Anonymous? Picture of two horses in Iceland from Unsplash Question for Quote Investigator: Each horse has exactly one posterior, and this fact produces a confounding …
    By quoteresearch, 1,316 words
  2. PostSecret
    You are invited to anonymously contribute a secret to a group art project. By Frank Warren. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Sunday Secrets
    link to voicemail secrets The post Sunday Secrets appeared first on PostSecret.
    By Frank, 14 words
  3. News From ME
    About TV, movies, theatre, comics, news, politics and other forms of fantasy. By Mark Evanier. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Today's Video Link
    When I die, I want a funeral procession that looks exactly like this… [...]Read More... from Today's Video Link
    By evanier, 22 words
  4. From a Glacier's Perspective - AGU Blogosphere
    Glacier change in a world of climate change. By Mauri Pelto. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Glacier Retreat on Yakutat Foreland, Alaska Generates Fastest Lake Growth in United States
    Yakutat, Alsek and Grand Plateau Glacier retreat from 1984 to 2024 has led to the three lakes expanding from 130 km2 to 240 km2 as illustrated by this pair of Landsat images. Fastest lake expansion …
    By mspelto, 908 words
  5. Eric Bailey – Writing
    Inclusive design advocate, writer, developer, and speaker. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Don’t forget to localize your icons
    Former United States president and war criminal George W. Bush gave a speech in Australia, directing a v-for-victory hand gesture at the assembled crowd. It wasn’t received the way he intended. What he failed to …
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  6. David Darnes
    Designer, Front-end Developer & Writer specialising in Design Systems, Eleventy, Ghost and Jamstack. 🇬🇧 More info

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    duration-property Web Component
    duration-property is a bit of a quirky component compared to what I've made before. I always try to make them very low level, versatile and utility based. In this case though I just went with …
    By David Darnes, 418 words
  7. Chen Hui Jing
    The chronicles of a self-taught designer and developer. 🇸🇬 More info

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    Chill day just HTML-ing and CSS-ing
    I have not had as many chances to build websites lately because for a little over the past 100 days, I’ve been in a non-developer role at work. It’s not really my cup of tea, …
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  8. In Custodia Legis
    Law Librarians of Congress. A blog from the Library of Congress. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Upcoming US Law Webinars – December 2024
    As we reach the final months of 2024, the Law Library of Congress is offering one more educational webinar in December. But do not fret — we will kick off January with more academic and …
    By Taylor Gulatsi, 271 words
  9. The Urbanist
    Examining urban policy to improve cities and quality of life. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Sound Transit Study Bolsters Case Against CID Station at Fourth Avenue
    Transit riders and Chinatown-International District (CID) residents advocating for a light rail station underneath 4th Avenue S were dealt a major blow Thursday with analysis presented to the Sound Transit board’s system expansion committee. Agency …
    By Ryan Packer, 1,565 words
  10. Joel's Blog
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    Back In Stock!
    applying grease to a batch of saw visesI'm happy to report that a couple of a favorite Gramercy tools products that have been out of stock for a while are now back in stock.First of …
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  11. Forgotten Television Drama
    Uncovering the lost history of British TV drama. By John Hill, Lez Cooke, Billy Smart. 🇬🇧 More info

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    The Play on One (BBC1 1988-91): The ‘Forgotten’ Afterlife of Play for Today (BBC1 1970-84)
    by John Cook Conventionally it is accepted that Play for Today died forty years ago, in 1984. In the spring of that year, the recently appointed Head of BBC TV Plays, Peter Goodchild, decided to …
    By john hill, 5,660 words
  12. Building a Beg-Meil
    I’m building a boat – specifically François Vivier’s Beg-Meil design. And, I thought I’d document the process on this blog. By Karl Nelson. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Chocks, or why this project takes forever
    Sometimes I wonder why this project takes so long. (Most people I talk to are too polite to ask why the project takes so long, so these are mostly conversations I have with myself.) After …
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  13. coxy
    designer and internet addict. 🇳🇴 More info

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    5 years of oslo.town
    As we find ourselves in the midst of November, it’s a poignant reminder that it’s been 5 years since I had the privilege of creating oslo.town – a Mastodon server for the people of Oslo’s …
    By coxy, 315 words
  14. working by hand
    A site that looks at the human use of tools and things. By Mike. 🇨🇦 More info

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    A perspective on Japanese architecture
    “When not convenient to obtain ready-sawed lumber from the dealer, the carpenter can play sawyer, and with a saw two feet in length and often over one foot wide, he can easily rip an old …
    By spqr, 129 words
  15. Alexander S. Kunz Photography – Weblog
    Landscape & Nature Photographer — Lightroom Expert & Tutor. 🇺🇸 More info

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    November 2014 Throwback
    For this month’s throwback to photos that I made ten years ago, the selection is rather small again, and there aren’t that many stories to tell either, but at least it’s a nicely varied collection …
    By Alexander S. Kunz, 74 words