Dan Jones

This looks excellent

This is sad. While I would never buy anything from SkyMall, I always perused it while flying. It was always entertaining.

seansjoyousrancouroustreemodus:

magicaldeductions:

goddammit bill

I saw this in science and I flipped the fuck out

If you miss seeing Instagram embeds on Twitter try this free Chrome extension. It lets you see Instagram photos, rather than links, on the Twitter website.

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Hey peeps!

Check out this totally amazing video, directed by Filipe Costa and featuring pixel art by Matheus Muniz, as well as music & SFX by Julian Alvarez Chaia. Honestly, this even caught me off-guard and I knew what was going to happen. Huge props to all of them.

pipocaVFX: youtube | patreon | twitter | facebook

As part of 1111′s A-Z of Creatures. F is for Ferret. Ferrets are the domesticated form of a European polecat. The name “ferret” is derived from the Latin furittus, meaning “little thief”, and a group of these little thieves is called a business. Coincidence???

If you want to see your favorite animal starting with G next week, drop a comment on 1111 Animals’ Facebook page.

Google could be looking to make a major move in the cellular market. According to a report from The Information, Google is planning to launch its own wireless carrier. The project was rumored quite a while ago, and it seems that Google is making headway on it. Reportedly codenamed “Nova”, the mobile carrier initiative will run on Sprint and T-Mobile’s networks. The goal is to provide lower costs and an improved experience with mobile carriers, which is often a complaint, particularly in the US.

Google is also said to be prepping new communication apps to tie in with the move. Whether these are updated versions of existing apps, such as Hangouts, or entirely new apps is unknown. The move, however, would allow Google to truly deliver an end-to-end experience to users, particularly those with Nexus devices. In such a scenario, Google would control the hardware, software and network plans available to a customer, allowing the company to deliver a straight-shot experience with even more control than Apple. While it could be great, it also seems to drift away from one of the tenets of Android: its openness.

What are your thoughts on the possibility of Google becoming a mobile carrier?

Remember Tim Evko's guest post on responsive images in WordPress? Here's some news on that:

• It's now the official WordPress plugin of the Responsive Images Community Group (RICG). It's on on GitHub here and in the Plugin Directory.
• It now uses the more appropriate srcset attribute instead of <picture>, since it just does resolution switching.
• It's endorsed by the WordPress core team, on track to be a "featured plugin" in the next release, and may ultimately end up in core itself.

Pretty cool!

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Official Responsive Images Plugin for WordPress is a post from CSS-Tricks

FamilySearch has recently launched an online App Gallery to help patrons find FamilySearch’s partner apps to optimize their family history

jennytrout:

This is the only story about a haunted sword where the haunted sword is the least interesting part of the story.

Hello there dear, first of all I want you to set aside any preliminary stereotypes that you have heard about the matter. So “jihad” means struggling or striving in the way of God. In a religious sense, “jihad” has many meanings. It can refer to internal as well as external efforts to be a good Muslims or believer, as well as working to inform people about the faith of Islam. Also a struggle to build a better society, i.e. campaigning for human rights, or education and not harming our environment is also a form of jihad. The most misinformed is jihad by arms which can only be enforced in imperative circumstances, such as:

• self defence
• protecting the freedom of muslims (i.e. from a tyrant)
• protection against oppresion, etc.

Even so, there are many strict rules about conduct during fighting.

• the fighting should only be started from the opponents side
• it should not be for the purpose of gaining terrority or gaining power
• no innocent people should be killed or hurt
• women should not be raped or hurt
• wounded enemy soldiers should be treated without bias
• no trees should be cut down
• no temples or religious places should be destroyed
• the fighting should stop at once if the enemy asks for peace
• the fighting should be the last resort 
• no one from the enemy should be forced to accept islam

The sort of Islam that the so called “jihadis” we see on media nowadays are a territorial and political organisation that hide behind the notion of a religion to reach their goals. They are terrorists who murder innocent people, calling them “Muslims” yet alone “jihadis” is just undermining and unfair to the people who live peaceful lives, but socially get slandered and stereotyped because of the inhumane conducts of a bunch of lunatics. So along with that and a million other reasons that I wont get into right now, I hope a have informed you well. I want to thank my friend Amal for the main structure of this post you can read her post too if you like. Have a nice day, please share this to spread awareness! :)

And then you respawn?

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Google Keep is a great app with near-instant sync, collaborative features, and apps for Android, Chrome and the web — but are you getting the most from it?

The article Five Powerful Google Keep Features You Should Start Using was first published on OMG! Chrome!

The title’s an exaggeration (“do the needful” is not restricted to Indian English, and “first-class” is reasonably common elsewhere), but the piece is funny, and the (unrelated except for linguistic humor) illustrations are hilarious: Rutu Ladage’s “English Phrases Used Only By Indians Which The World Knows Nothing About,” from India Times.

Vaguely related, in the sense that one language is making odd use of another: there is a Latin tag “Lingua latina non penis canina” (“The Latin language is not a dog’s penis”) that appears to exist only in Russian. I have no idea how this came about, but there’s an entire Lurkomore article on it (which starts by claiming it comes from medieval nerds; for Lurkomore, see this LH post).

The 'window snap' feature in Chrome OS is a handy way to view two apps/browser pages side-by-side — but have you discovered its hidden extra feature?

The article Window Snap in Chrome OS Is More Awesome Than You Realize was first published on OMG! Chrome!