Quote Investigator® – Tracing Quotations
Records the investigatory work of Garson O’Toole who diligently seeks the truth about quotations. Who really said what?
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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 …
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PostSecret
You are invited to anonymously contribute a secret to a group art project.
By Frank Warren.
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Sunday Secrets
link to voicemail secrets The post Sunday Secrets appeared first on PostSecret.
News From ME
About TV, movies, theatre, comics, news, politics and other forms of fantasy.
By Mark Evanier.
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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
From a Glacier's Perspective - AGU Blogosphere
Glacier change in a world of climate change.
By Mauri Pelto.
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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 …
Eric Bailey – Writing
Inclusive design advocate, writer, developer, and speaker.
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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 …
David Darnes
Designer, Front-end Developer & Writer specialising in Design Systems, Eleventy, Ghost and Jamstack.
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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
Chen Hui Jing
The chronicles of a self-taught designer and developer.
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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, …
In Custodia Legis
Law Librarians of Congress. A blog from the Library of Congress.
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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
The Urbanist
Examining urban policy to improve cities and quality of life.
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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
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 …
Forgotten Television Drama
Uncovering the lost history of British TV drama.
By John Hill, Lez Cooke, Billy Smart.
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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
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.
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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 …
coxy
designer and internet addict.
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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 …
working by hand
A site that looks at the human use of tools and things.
By Mike.
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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 …
Alexander S. Kunz Photography – Weblog
Landscape & Nature Photographer — Lightroom Expert & Tutor.
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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