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2018 Jan 03
2018 Jan 03
Bandcamp - the best place to buy music
I love Bandcamp [http://bandcamp.com/]. They do almost exactly what I want from a music store. (I just think their search is a bit sucky - I often can't find what I'm looking for.) You can see my faves in the picture above. I would have never known about most of them, were it not for Bandcamp. Some things to love about it: * They let you actually listen to the music, first. Every album is available in its entirety. You can listen to it a few times and then decide whether you want to buy...
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2014 Jul 28
2014 Jul 28
Meta-spoilers
Though article talks about spoilers, it doesn’t contain any. When the last (fourth) season of Game of Thrones was running and everyone feared for Tyrion’s head, I realized he isn’t going to die. Not that Martin wouldn’t kill him – I just know if he was dead in the books, I’d surely have run into a spoiler by now. That got me thinking about how weird it is: just because a show is as popular as GoT, the mere absence of spoilers is a spoiler in itself. (Especially if you wander around 9gag and ot...
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2014 Mar 29
2014 Mar 29
Elemental words
> “When I heard oxygen and magnesium hooked up, I was like OMg.” This joke more or less started it. We started exchanging similar ones with a friend and soon after I found myself wondering what fraction of the vocabulary is it possible to write using only the symbols of chemical elements. The thought nagged me until I gave in and started coding. Basically I was trying to convert as many words as possible into an alphabet consisting of these “letters”: So for example stab becomes STaB. Ther...
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