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A ubiquitous heritage feature: modern street lights from the 1960s, pioneered in London
roads.org.uk/node/7704

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Been noticing a tinned mango shortage in the UK supermarkets, I assume because of problems with the harvest fruitnet.com/fresh-produce-jou

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@grifferz many years ago I was pronouncing x.org as "zorg"

I am still disappointed that it's not the correct pronunciation.

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Selection for FA Trophy in gradual decline (10)

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Crimson and scarlet remands con man (4)

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VOLE.wtf 🐹⁉️

🚀 Still not too late to order DOCTYPE before Christmas but it’s getting tight for some parts of the world
Don’t disappoint the nerds in your life (including yourself)
vole.wtf/doctype/

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Dan Bornstein

News: Netflix to acquire WB.

Me: Ugh, that can't be good. I hope it doesn't go through.

Monkey's paw: [finger curls]

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Esther Schindler

"I was ready to be sympathetic. Was there some other explanation for the wild inconsistencies I had found? Or was she a simple scammer who had found easy marks in the overworked, credulous editors of the journalism world?" thelocal.to/investigating-scam

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Aperiodical Maths News
Portrait of Hannah Fry commissioned by the Royal Society from Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year Chloe Barnes
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You enter Test Chamber 1, a large rectangular room with white walls. There is a portal gun here.

> take gun

You take the portal gun

> fire gun

A portal appears on the north wall

> north

You enter Test Chamber 1, a large ...

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Marc Abrahams

Ig Nobel Prize winner buys a castle and donates it to the townspeople [La Voz de Galicia] lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/yes/

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@katemorley also I get frustrated by those stuck-up elves waiting until you've implemented something before changing the requirements. I get enough of that at work!

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Terence Eden

🆕 blog! “My Wikipedia account is now old enough to vote”

I have no idea what I was doing on the 28th of November 2007 but, apparently, that's when I first logged in to Wikipedia. Which means, as of right now, my Wikipedia account is 18 years old!

I didn't make my first edit until April 2009. That was for the nascent Ada Lovelace Day.

Since then, I've racked up a bit over…

👀 Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/my-wi
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#wikipedia

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Hugh

The best engineering projects are the super complex ones which you only hear about afterwards.

ianvisits.co.uk/articles/the-h

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Marc Abrahams

TODAY on "Science Friday": The day-after-Thanksgiving specially selected highlights from this year's Ig Nobel Prize ceremony sciencefriday.com/segments/ig-

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Marc Abrahams

"Is Matrix Multiplication Ugly?” [Jim Propp] mathenchant.wordpress.com/2025

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Paris court blocks Pascal's La Pascaline calculator being exported from France
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ntoh*/hton* is a bad API, says purplesyringa
purplesyringa.moe/blog/ntoh-ht

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Andy Smith

"How SETI Designed A Telescope To Look For Extraterrestrial Civilizations" – Scott Manley

youtube.com/watch?v=qnWR7A0Qiy

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Tim Bray

HTTP has a new method: QUERY. Tl;dr: GET with a body.

ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf

#ietf

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