It Took Two Months and Nearly a Million Dollars to Save an Unvaccinated 6-Year-Old From Tetanus
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Hyperactive Parrots and Stoned Wallabies
Apparently opium affects parrots the way caffeine affects humans, and hyperactive parrots in India are trashing the poppy fields trying to get their fix.
@Satsuma replies:
cant decide if this is more or less funny than the high on opium wallabies making crop circles on Australian poppy farms
Wow!
I think wallabies and crop circles win! 
Laundry in ancient Mesopotamia
A clay tablet reveals:
1. How cleaners did laundry in ancient Mesopotamia.
2. The trope of customers who think they know how to do your job better than you do is really, really old.
LOL. 
LOL.
“Facebook’s newest ploy to bring back teen users is a meme app called LOL”
Link: A Giant Ice Disk Has Formed on a River in Maine
Link: The Boston Molasses Flood Is Worth Taking Seriously
Why Cider Means Something Completely Different in America and Europe
Link: Why the death of EdgeHTML is bad for the Internet
NSFW (according to Tumblr): Top 10 Art Posts You Won’t See on your Dashboard This …
NSFW (according to Tumblr): Top 10 Art Posts You Won’t See on your Dashboard This Week
Seriously, these make absolutely no sense. There is nothing NSFW in this list, or that would violate the specific rules given.
Looks like they were right in this case.
@oct2pus Looks like they were right in this case.
Microsoft Edge: Making the web better through more open source collaboration
For the past few years, Microsoft has meaningfully increased participation in the open source software (OSS) community, becoming one of the world’s largest supporters of OSS projects. Today we’re announcing that we intend to adopt the Chromium open source project…
The ten weirdest content moderation decisions Tumblr has made this week via @comicsbeat
The Beat has a comics-themed round up of “The ten weirdest content moderation decisions #Tumblr has made this week”
Link: What Trump and John Bolton Don’t Understand About Nuclear War
What Trump and John Bolton Don’t Understand About Nuclear War
Fifty-six years ago today, on Black Saturday, the world was nearly destroyed in the Cuban missile crisis.
The Sun Set Off 4,000 Sea Mines During the Vietnam War
The Sun Set Off 4,000 Sea Mines During the Vietnam War
That Domain You Forgot to Renew? Yeah, it’s Now Stealing Credit Cards
Cool: LED-based indoor farming that optimizes the lighting hours and wavelengths for each crop.
Cool: LED-based indoor farming that optimizes the lighting hours and wavelengths for each crop.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/high-tech-farmers-are-using-led-lights-in-ways-that-seem-to-border-on-science-fiction/2018/11/06/d965021a-e15b-11e8-8f5f-a55347f48762_graphic.html
Mozilla has released a new version of their “Privacy Not Included” review of smart devices, …
Mozilla has released a new version of their “Privacy Not Included” review of smart devices, with an added “creep-o-meter” for just how creepy readers rate them.
Four big-picture principles for making our democracy work better
Four big-picture principles for making our democracy work better
spiders, creepy (re-post since I realized I probably should’ve CWed it)
Link: The Hair Sprouting From This Building Is Actually Thousands of Tiny Legs https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-do-daddy-longlegs-cluster-together
“If you’re tempted to not vote because of the vitriol or the imperfect nature of the choices, then you’re supporting a downward cycle, in which the candidate who best suppresses voter turnout of the opponent’s backers wins.”
“If you’re tempted to not vote because of the vitriol or the imperfect nature of the choices, then you’re supporting a downward cycle, in which the candidate who best suppresses voter turnout of the opponent’s backers wins.”
Found a reference to Web Intents on an old post and thought, “Whatever happened to …
Found a reference to Web Intents on an old post and thought, “Whatever happened to those?”
First page of search results turns up: What happened to web intents?