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ASLSP has been playing on an organ in Germany since 2001(twitter.com)
1 points by philshem 6y ago|1 comments
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by philshem 6y ago
full text of the tweet: >> John Cage's "Organ²/ASLSP (As Slow as Possible)" has been playing on the organ of a church in Halberstadt, Germany since 2001. (The performance runs until 2640.) This Saturday, the chord
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by philshem 6y ago
You can rename the .docx as .zip, and it unzips into .doc (xml) and folders full of images, etc. (same for .pptx, .xlsx, .etcx)
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How to use xsv (in Windows) to split up a CSV file too big for Excel(gist.github.com)
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Amazon’s Fire phone is even worse than I remembered [video](youtu.be)
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Two British Orthodontists Became Celebrities to Incels(nytimes.com)
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Kim Beom’s “Yellow Scream” (2012, video)(vimeo.com)
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by philshem 6y ago
oof. no wayback archive, either. here's the G-cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:J9i6XlH...
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Seven Sets Venn Diagram(moebio.com)
120 points by philshem 6y ago|19 comments
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The top-voted answer links to this HN page. I'm stuck in an infinite loop.
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> There are way older and better built things all over Asia and Europe. Your opinion is valid but in this case because isolated societies developed independently, the “oldness” is somehow relative. My opinion is that MP exceeded my expec
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by philshem 6y ago
A fun read about MP: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10111087-turn-right-at-m...
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NY Times Acquires Serial, Forms a Strategic Alliance with “This American Life”(businesswire.com)
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The Drug Rehab for the World's Super Rich (2019)(vice.com)
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In the Jungle, the Unjust Jungle, a Small Victory (2006)(nytimes.com)
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This cyclist agrees.
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Thank you for sharing. I'd like to add my experience that being a parent has made me a better child.
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this one is an oldie but goodie 2/3 adventure travel writing 1/3 food writing
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Heart of Dark Chocolate (2010)(outsideonline.com)
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> Bob Dylan befriended him, Joni Mitchell helped support him, and the Eagles covered one of his songs. So why did success elude the late singer-songwriter?
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Man Out of Time: The Music and Mystery of David Blue(rollingstone.com)
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Alas, I don’t remember!
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I used to use purple.com to test my internet connection, since it wasn't cached by the browser back then. The site itself is from 1994. It was sold to a mattress company in 2017(?). first snapshot, 1998: https://web.archive.
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by philshem 6y ago
Now it’s http://isoldpurple.com
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sometimes you may need http and for that there is http://neverssl.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=neverssl.com
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Interesting, when I create a repo with my profile name, it shows this text: > You found a secret! philshem/philshem is a special repository that you can use to add a README.md to your GitHub profile. Make sure it’s public and initi
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Backstory: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/arts/far-side-gary-larson... Like many The Far Side of yore, I don’t understand the Cub Scout one.
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First new “The Far Side” cartoons from Gary Larson since 1995(thefarside.com)
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I don’t think it explains much in a scientific sense, but with the theme of passion and obsession, I really enjoyed The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Orchid_Thief And this famous quo
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I often toggle mobile data on my phone when I'm away from WiFi, and I also noticed that even when mobile data is off, sometimes push notifications come through. It's hard to explain the conditions when it has happened, but it&#x27

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