[1311] 2014
Title Text:Some future reader, who may see the term, without knowing the history of it, may imagine that it had reference to some antiquated bridge of the immortal Poet, thrown across the silver Avon, to facilitate his escape after some…
Title Text:Some future reader, who may see the term, without knowing the history of it, may imagine that it had reference to some antiquated bridge of the immortal Poet, thrown across the silver Avon, to facilitate his escape after some…
Title Text:The weak twin primes conjecture states that there are infinitely many pairs of primes. The strong twin primes conjecture states that every prime p has a twin prime (p+2), although (p+2) may not look prime at first. The tautological…
Title Text:Maybe we should give up on the whole idea of a ‘back’ button. ‘Show me that thing I was looking at a moment ago’ might just be too complicated an idea for the modern web.
Title Text:The 6 Weirdest Objects The Buzzfeed Writers Are Throwing Out Their Windows At Us
Title Text:The cycle seems to be ‘we need these symbols to clarify what types of things we’re referring to!’ followed by ‘wait, it turns out words already do that.’
Title Text:And it doesn’t pop up a box every time asking you to use your real name. In fact, there’s no way to set your name at all. You just have to keep reminding people who you are.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1305/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1305:_Undocumented_Feature…
Title Text:Plus, when someone finally grabs your glasses and stomps on them, it costs way less than $1,500 to replace them.
Title Text:It’s ok, they’ll always let you opt out! Like they did with the YouTube real name profile thing.
Title Text:All in all, I give this year a C-. There were no aurora visible from my house and that comet evaporated. They’d better not cancel the 2017 eclipse.