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Weekly Web Harvest for 2019-11-24
Why you might be counting in the wrong language – BBC FutureFor example, in French, 92 is quatre-vingt douze or “four twenties and twelve”. And in Danish, the word for 92 is tooghalvfems, where halvfems, meaning 90,is an abbreviation of the Old Norse word halvfemsindstyve, or “four and a half times twenty”. — thinking the […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2019-11-17
FraidycatFraidycat is a browser extension for Firefox or Chrome. (Just those right now – it’s brand-new, quite experimental.) I use it to follow people (hundreds) on whatever platform they choose – Twitter, a blog, YouTube, even on a public TiddlyWiki. cowlicks/privacypossum: Privacy Possum makes tracking you less profitablePrivacy Possum makes tracking you less profitable. Companies […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2019-11-10
Nike released a shoe for ‘everyday heroes’ like doctors, nurses and home health aides – CNNI’d want a design challenge like this but with concerns about sterilization and more significant medical concerns considered. We have the potential need for similar things around iPad cases used in labs where blood and other fluids are present. Make […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2019-11-03
snarfed/granary: ? The social web translator.The social web translator. Fetches and converts data between social networks, HTML and JSON with microformats2, ActivityStreams, Atom, JSON Feed, and more. Paul Ford on Twitter: “Oh my god enough about generations it’s just astrology for opinion columnists.” / Twitter How to Build a Low-tech Website? | LOW?TECH MAGAZINEPage size has […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2019-10-27
Zeno – Oriental Coins Database – Part of the mirror, unearthed in Kyrgyzstanchallenging text or word focused pattern poetry Vortimo – Beta3Vortimo is software that organizes information on webpages that you’ve visited. It records pages you go to, extracts data from it and enrich the data that was extracted. It augments the pages in your […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2019-10-20
??? on Twitter: “at no point in this video did i know what was coming next https://t.co/XXaIlfc4bk” / Twitter Brian Lamb on Twitter: “On behalf of the #StopGlobalWarmingConference Committee, I want to respond to comments about this year’s keynote panel that features oil companies. They are also sponsors of the conference — thanks guys, we […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2019-10-13
microsoft/SandDance: Visually explore, understand, and present your data. List of premature professional wrestling deaths – WikipediaDeeply sad. datadesk/census-data-downloader: Download U.S. census data and reformat it for humansDownload U.S. census data and reformat it for humans. […]
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Weekly Web Harvest for 2019-10-06
War and Peace – Our World in DataIt would be wrong to believe that the past was peaceful. One reason why some people might have this impression is that many of the past conflicts feature less prominently in our memories, they are simply forgotten. An overview of all the conflicts for which we have an […]