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Last 16. Match-Up #4
The Ministry of Silly Walks v ‘Tis But a Scratch

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#Television #SocialHistory #1960s #1970s #Poll #MontyPython #Film #Humour

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Last 16. Match-Up #3
The Spanish Inquisition v Cheese Shop

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Last 16. Match-Up #2
The Philosophers’ Football Match v Hell’s Grannies

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Last 16. Match-Up #1
Spam v Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

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🎬 The 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest is on!

Celebrate Public Domain Day by remixing & reimagining the past—using at least one item entering the #publicdomain on January 1, 2026 in your 2–3 minute film submission.

by using at least one public domain item from 1930 in a 2–3 minute short film that shows off your creative vision.

📅 Deadline: January 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Contest details: https://blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2026-public-domain-day-remix-contest/

@internetarchive #contest

Poster for the Internet Archive's 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest, featuring the "Lockette," a cartoon character with an open lock, seated in a director's chair, legs crossed, and holding a megaphone. Projected on a screen to her right is a frame from the 1930 film "King of Jazz". Illustrated by Freya Morgan.

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Environmental storytelling 🐾

Photo of a tuxedo cat staring through the glass of a back door where a small loop of paw prints in fresh snow can be seen. Kitty saw the cold white stuff. Kitty is done on the cold white stuff.

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On day 15 @tylersticka shows us how to break the web‽

https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2025/15/

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Day 16 of Advent of Compiler Optimisations!

Pass a function two separate arguments, or pack them in a struct — which is faster? The answer might surprise you: sometimes the struct version is MORE efficient! Eight char arguments as separate parameters spill to the stack, but pack them in a struct and they fit in a single register. How does the compiler pull this off?

#AoCO2025

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Remember back when JavaScript was meant to enhance the browser experience, and we did graceful degration to make sure things worked even with JS disabled? That was pretty crazy, wasn't it...

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le petit chaperon rouge : mère Noël comme vous avez de grandes prunelles

Ron Mueck, Standing Woman, 2008 / Charles Perrault / les frères Grimm
tags : Gargantuella, #Christmas #sculpture #art #children #psychology #truth

“A New Way to Look at Möbius Strips”

Nothing new in terms of results, even the ones that I knew as a kid, but a nice visualization that clarifies why things work out the way that they do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izIKV98Awnw

#Numberphile #geometry #math

@BobHorowitz On the overhead wires front, I had a close brush with death when I was standing on a curb in North Beach when one of the electric busses went over a bump, causing a yank on the wires connecting to a lamp post and the glass cover for the light came crashing down 3 feet from me.

@BobHorowitz In ‘95, I was working at the top of 75 Hawthorn, which has 2 story tall diagonal windows with views in all directions. One day, I’m looking out over the city and I had a sudden realization that there’s no trees. Just a weird thing at the time.

@BobHorowitz For a Chicagoan, San Francisco has very few trees outside of the parks.

@sixcolors @glennf I have a friend of Dutch descent that I refer to as Mr. Mangrove due to the dissimilarity between the spelling and pronunciation of his name.

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At the top of the page of one of my daughter's books is this set of three repeated patterns. It doesn't seem to be Morse code, I don't think. It doesn't seem to be a misprint as the dots go nearer the spine than the text body. The only thing I can think of is crop marks but I've never seen any that look like this. What is it?

(Ed: It seems to be a Code 128 barcode with the code 423808 - maybe the printer's internal job ID for the book?)

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Alfred Hitchcock’s favourite plot: you are in a vast, echoing assembly car plant, walking slowly beside a chassis as it takes shape. You follow it as it grows, piece by piece, towards completion. And then, as the finished car rolls off the line, a door swings open and a body falls out. “All I have to do is explain how it happened and I have a helluva story,” Mr Hitchcock said.

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On our first Apple II computer at home, there was a program called "Applevision", that my brother and I just called "Dancing Man". It blew us away then, and fills me with nostalgia now.

Youtube Clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqPe7pE_5uQ

#nostalgia #appleII

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