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Posts by Adrian Parsons

Screenshot of a woman with feet up on a footrest in a bus with the subtitle "Raises footrests"

Screenshot of a woman with feet up on a footrest in a bus with the subtitle "Raises footrests"

Screenshot of a woman with feet up on a footrest in a bus with the subtitle "Sorry for my fat feet"

Screenshot of a woman with feet up on a footrest in a bus with the subtitle "Sorry for my fat feet"

Watching this adorable video of a sleeper bus trip through Japan I did not expect the creator to apologize for their "fat feet".

www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1sx...

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Vexillological symbol - Wikipedia

TIL about Vexillological symbols en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vexillo...

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Release v3.21.0 · mapbox/mapbox-gl-js Features and improvements ✨ Introduce the TileProvider API, a mechanism for extending GL JS with custom vector tile providers. Add first-class support for PMTiles via the new TileProvider API and ...

Mapbox GL JS v3.21.0

github.com/mapbox/mapbo...

"Add first-class support for PMTiles via the new TileProvider API and an official plugin (``mapbox-gl-pmtiles-provider.js`) that loads on demand."

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No 3d model!?

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Still capture from a movie. Two actors (Liev Schreiber and Julia Stiles) in front of a bookcase. A large yellow catalog with "McMaster" lettering on the spine can be seen on the bookcase.

Still capture from a movie. Two actors (Liev Schreiber and Julia Stiles) in front of a bookcase. A large yellow catalog with "McMaster" lettering on the spine can be seen on the bookcase.

Detail from a movie capture. The actor Julia Stiles in front of a bookcase. A large yellow catalog with "McMaster" lettering on the spine can be seen on the bookcase.

Detail from a movie capture. The actor Julia Stiles in front of a bookcase. A large yellow catalog with "McMaster" lettering on the spine can be seen on the bookcase.

McMaster-Carr catalog in HAMLET (2000)

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BahnBet — Bet on German Train Delays Prediction markets on Deutsche Bahn departure delays

I always thought it would be fun to add gambling to @marcos.ac's metromadness.nyc concept.

I am just tickled by bahn.bet, where users can bet (fake money) on German rail delays.

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It’s time to reassess what Chicago does with its vacant land, especially when we are the middle of a housing crisis.

@abundanthousingil.bsky.social

#chicago #illinois #urbanism #vote #election

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Coat of arms of Dominica - Wikipedia

Dominica is pretty good:

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The Cayman Islands turtle is just charming.

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The Republic of Botswana Zebras go hard.

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The Turks and Caicos flamingos and pelican are a little chaotic, but fun

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3 dolphins drawn in a circle

3 dolphins drawn in a circle

Awesome coats of arms (of countries) that feature animals:

The Anguilla dolphins are my favorite so far.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of...

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Making a font with 9,999 ligatures to display thirteenth-century monk numerals — Digital Seams As the title implies, I just created a font that displays numbers in a compact format used by Cistercian monks . You can play with it on my demo site here :

Reading this post about a font that replaces numbers with monastic numerals gave me an idea. Use ligatures (as this font does) to replace instances of "Nike", for example, with the logo for the company.

digitalseams.com/blog/making-...

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Exploring ICE detention facilities Statistics and stories from ICE's archipelago of detention centers, based on the first data release since "Operation Metro Surge" arrived in Minneapolis.

Wrote a new blog post with some data and lots of links.

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IMCDb.org: "Ronin, 1998": cars, bikes, trucks and other vehicles

I took to the web to find the model of car the protagonists drove in the 1998 movie RONIN. I did not expect to find a list of every. single. car. in the movie with associated screen captures.

www.imcdb.org/m122690.html

The Internet Movie Car Database is peak internet.

(It was an Audi S8)

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Screenshot of https://renecutura.eu/metalvis/

Screenshot of https://renecutura.eu/metalvis/

Just ran across this metal band logo map/visualization: renecutura.eu/metalvis/

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Map by Bellingcat showing the potential helicopter path using three helicopter flight videos shared on social media and satellite imagery.

Map by Bellingcat showing the potential helicopter path using three helicopter flight videos shared on social media and satellite imagery.

The US military conducted an operation on Jan 3 to capture President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela. Bellingcat geolocated videos of helicopters involved in the raid, piecing together potential movements of the assault force

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Super cool. Lately I've been thinking about different kinds of data visualization and this just blew me away.

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One Bad Line of Code at Mach 1.8
One Bad Line of Code at Mach 1.8 YouTube video by BPS.space

This came up in a youtube video from an amateur rocket builder: youtu.be/JXr4-GoCWsw?...

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Nomogram - Wikipedia

Wikipedia says it's a type of "nomogram", something else I just learned about en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomogram

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Smith chart - Wikipedia

I just learned about the Smith chart en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_c...

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The OC - 1x14 - New Year's Eve - Dice (Finley Quaye)
The OC - 1x14 - New Year's Eve - Dice (Finley Quaye) YouTube video by Polyana Pontes

MILLENNIALS ASSEMBLE for the New Years anthem youtu.be/G1xs47bX928?...

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Update: they fixed it. Interesting that a wildcard certificate is used for the root domain and a separate certificate is used for the www sub

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Ah, but www.honda.com is fine.

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Random, but kind of interesting that honda.com has an expired TLS cert

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Screenshot of a site showing company logos next to news headlines that mention the company.

Screenshot of a site showing company logos next to news headlines that mention the company.

Screenshot of a site showing company logos next to news headlines that mention the company.

Screenshot of a site showing company logos next to news headlines that mention the company.

I just ran across these old screenshots of an oooooold site I made that scanned the WSJ twitter feed for company names and paired them with company logos.

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Overheard at NYC Systems Coffee Club this morning:

“I’ve done… ‘crimes’ in Python”

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I'm rarely in the mood to play an entire game of chess, but I like the little puzzles on dontblunder

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Don't Blunder Don't Blunder, a chess middlegame trainer

. @aaronpierron.com just launched dontblunder.com, a super cool site for getting better at chess.

You get a mid-game chess board, make a move, then get a score (as well as see the optimal move).

HN thread: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4577...

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Show HN: A chess middlegame trainer so I can stop blundering | Hacker News

HN thread: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4577...

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