Cool Random Internet Stuff

hhh · 2024-09-17 04:40:16

Well, nobody ever said snakes were smart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI1S679bAlY

Colonel Panic · 2024-10-23 20:35:06

This young lady was born and brought up in arctic Siberia, and decided to make a series of short films detailing the life of just one family who live in one of the coldest places in the world.

I've seen a couple of them and I'm left almost speechless with admiration at the family and the problems they (including the 9 year old son) surmount in order to continue living in a village where the temperature often goes below -40^C and even -50^C in winter.

Want some water to drink? No problem, go out and hack off a big block of ice and bring it inside to thaw out. How about a shower? That will take 5 hours of burning logs (all of which you have to cut and bring inside yourself) before the bath house gets warm enough for you to go in. And the young lad does his full share of all of it. ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj5GXZaE7qs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcz1zvrsrP4

Last edited by Colonel Panic (2024-10-23 21:02:57)

glittersloth · 2026-05-12 03:31:43

Courtesy of one of the newsletters I subscribe to.
Thought it was cool.
https://punchcards.tristandavey.com/

hhh · 2026-05-12 19:28:06

^ Can anyone find the header image source? I'm curious, it's a great photograph.

johnraff · 2026-05-13 00:01:25

This?

https://punchcards.tristandavey.com/ima … nczos.webp

Firefox > Inspect:

<div class="hero-header-bg" style="background-image:url(/images/heroes/index_hu1972e1fa0cbcde9e00a137ea74fb93ab_3588851_2500x0_resize_q75_h1_lanczos.webp)"></div><div class="hero-header-content"><div class="hero-header-content-area"><h1 class="display-4">Bits of history...</h1><p>Punched cards were once a ubiquitous part of accounting, data collection and early computing. At their
peak of use, in the 1950s and 60s, hundreds of companies around the world printed millions of punch
cards every month. Yet within a few years of their obsolescence they all but disappeared from the
public consciousness.</p><p>This archive captures a small selection of these cards and their ephemera, and aims to document
and preserve these pieces of history for the future.</p></div></div>

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hhh · 2026-05-13 16:36:40

^ Oh, that is the shizznit! I tried inspecting and found /images/heroes/ but didn't have the patience to copy the rest. Epic photograph. I especially like the one plastic vine on the wall next to that majestic window view, it really ties the room together.

johnraff · 2026-09-04 06:47:05

I thought there was a thread somewhere for handy web services and the like? Couldn't find it, so I'm putting this here:

Test if any site is blocked by the Great Firewall of China in real time.
https://www.chinafirewalltest.com/

Martin · 2026-09-04 08:00:43

johnraff wrote:

I thought there was a thread somewhere for handy web services and the like? Couldn't find it, so I'm putting this here:
Test if any site is blocked by the Great Firewall of China in real time.
https://www.chinafirewalltest.com/

Just tested it and it seems the test is a little shaky. Re-testing the same URL yields different results.

But then my experience of traveling to China is that the Great Firewall is also inconsistent.

/Martin

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