Judge rules emoji are proof of intent One piece of evidence used against the defendants was an emoji-filled text message they sent to Dahan, which mentioned the house and included the emoji chain “?.” Animating the Virtual DOM by sdrasner some really slick stuff in this Many pet rabbits will die in Second Life on Saturday | Rock, Paper, Shotgun Virtual rabbits across Second Life [official site] will fall asleep on Saturday then never wake up, now that the their digital food supply has been shut down by a legal battle. The player-made and player-sold Ozimals brand of digirabbits are virtual pets that players breed and care for in the sandbox MMO, and even need to feed by buying DRM-protected virtual food. But they rely on servers. Waypoint reported earlier today that the seller of Ozimals and the Pufflings virtuabirds has received a legal threat he says he cannot afford to fight, so they’ve shut down. By Saturday, rabbits will run out of food and enter hibernation. Arctic stronghold of world’s seeds flooded after permafrost melts | Environment | The Guardian It was designed as an impregnable deep-freeze to protect the world’s most precious seeds from any global disaster and ensure humanity’s food supply forever. But the Global Seed Vault, buried in a mountain deep inside the Arctic circle, has been […]

WWW FAQs: What is the maximum length of a URL? Firefox (Browser) After 65,536 characters, the location bar no longer displays the URL in Windows Firefox 1.5.x. However, longer URLs will work. I stopped testing after 100,000 characters. Directus: Open-Source Headless CMS and API might be fun to try out at some point South Carolina Inmate May Have Used Drone in Prison Escape, Officials Say – The New York Times They are physically incarcerated, but they are no longer virtually incarcerated,” Mr. Stirling said. Rubik’s Snake – Wikipedia “The snake is not a problem to be solved; it offers infinite possibilities of combination. It is a tool to test out ideas of shape in space. Speaking theoretically, the number of the snake’s combinations is limited. But speaking practically, that number is limitless, and a lifetime is not sufficient to realize all of its possibilities.”[3] dexteryy/spellbook-of-modern-webdev: A Big Picture, Thesaurus, and Taxonomy of Modern JavaScript Web Development This document originated from a bunch of most commonly used links and learning resources I sent to every new web developer on our full-stack web development team. What I’m doing in this document now is trying to provide the complete view angle of modern web (app or page) development ruled by JavaScript, reflect technological advance and help developers to acquire APIs, libraries, tools, services, […]

The Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom on Twitter: “Shorter: Voiced pauses are an important part of communication and group identity! If you hate the ones in your group, you’re probably not really in that group.” / TwitterShorter: Voiced pauses are an important part of communication and group identity! If you hate the ones in your group, you’re probably not really in that group. Uber apologizes for tweeting racial slur / Boing BoingI wonder how these sorts of human/bot intentional problem causing will escalate as this becomes more and more popular. Handouts, Slides, and Recordings from #NCTMSD2019 – dy/danI wrote a script that copied every speaker’s Twitter handle and the time of their session from the program book. Then the script searched Twitter for their handle and “#NCTMSD2019” and – here’s the thing! – captured the results only from the time period of their session. Not during their flight to NCTM. Not during the fantastic happy hour after their session either. //might be worth making an addon for the Tags plugin Probable Russian Navy covert camera whale discovered by Norwegians | Ars TechnicaThe harness was reportedly marked with the label “Equipment St. Petersburg” and had an attachment point for a GoPro camera. Audun Rikardsen, a professor at the Norwegian Arctic University in Tromsø (UiT), told Norway’s VG that neither Norwegian nor Russian […]