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Ireland and the UK aren’t in the same timezone
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Hertfordshire A Fascinating County: Codicote
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The fascinating story behind the ruins we have in Virginia Water in this long thread of tweets: twitter.com…
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Windsor Then and Now
Photos of Windsor from historyCategories
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500 Greatest Albums of All Time | Rolling Stone
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The web was born in France, not Switzerland
CERN straddles the border and the exact location where Tim Berners-Lee invented it was on the French side.Categories
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The BBC Micro turns 30
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Infinite scroll + HTML5 History API
Experiment that modifies the URL with query parameters on the fly when you scroll down a long list of tweets so you can... -
Responsive web design from the future
“Responsive web design is about a lot more than the size of your screen”. HTML5’s history API, pushState, replaceState,...Categories
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History Sniffing: How YouPorn Checks What Other Porn Sites You’ve Visited and Ad Networks Test The Quality of Their Data
Checks links to competitors to see if they’re purple (or whatever the visited colour is)Categories
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Snakes on the Web
Fascinating article that journeys from the beginnings of the web to present day Python/Django, concurrency and the pain of...Categories
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Start Panicking!
Comprehensive demo of the link colour sniffing trick. The aim is to get browser makers to block the vulnerability. -
How to Detect the Social Sites Your Visitors Use
Finds out which sites you visit based on browser historyCategories
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Using your browser URL history to estimate gender
Examines link colours to see if you’ve visited certain male or female dominated sitesCategories
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Ace Jet 170
Inspiration from old typopgraphyCategories
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A Nice Cup of Tea by George Orwell
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GOOD Magazine | Goodmagazine - The 51 Best* Magazines Ever
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Wired 14.11: The Perfect Thing
Great background stories to the iPodCategories