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Sad to hear! I noticed that some are available through the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/Hexaflexagons

You often don't know which work was "10x" except in retrospect, so this advice is a little like recommending people only invest in the stocks that are going to go up.

I solved this problem by taking a photograph of my library card. To check out a book, I load the picture and hold it up to the scanner.

As Seymour Cray said, "The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late." It can be months (at a high salary) before you reall…

Re: the age of "That's what she said": I thumbed through The Frogs (Aristophanes) at a used book store once. This play was written circa 400 BC. In the prologue, one character is o…

We are now, but there's a little more to it. When we first got this dishwasher, we never cleaned the filters. Our previous washer didn't need that, and we didn't know better. So it…

I admit that I'm not actually sure. We got this advice from a local appliance shop.

Thank you! Another comment recommends the same video, so I will certainly check it out.

Thank you, I will definitely watch this. We have tried pre-wash detergent, tabs, liquid soap, powder detergents, in various combinations. There may be something unusual wrong with …

Exactly. We pre-rinse the dishes, get the water running hot before starting the machine, and choose the heavy cycle. Even so, the dishwasher barely cleans our dishes. And it's a Bo…

> A digital book requires the same minus actor The digital book also requires formatting work. Depending on the type of book and the publisher's workflow, this can be simple (an ex…

A while back, Gmail began blocking .js file attachments, but I didn't realize until today that this means my old JavaScript file attachments would be retroactively blocked. I track…

There's a musician named Andrew Huang who sometimes makes music based on song challenges from his fans. Years ago, I asked him to write a rap song in which none of the lyrics conta…

According to that boundless.com link, "The half-life of carbon-14 is 5,730 years, so carbon dating is only relevant for dating fossils less than 60,000 years old."

There's some interesting analysis of the math behind Spot It! on stackoverflow [1]. That post mentions the Fano Plane, which, incidentally, I first read about in the book How Not t…

Right before leaving my last job, I updated an internal web-based tool to add a menu item called "Add Unicorns." It just used cornify to show unicorn images when clicked. But I als…

Since Bandcamp does not have a "random song" feature, I built a page that will let you hear a randomly selected album. I have a scraper that runs nightly to pull newly added albums…

I thought this was fun. If it loaded quickly enough, I can imagine spending more time playing around with it. It's not loading reliably for me right now, but I got it to work a few…

Another possible pro (from the site-owner's perspective) is increased user engagement. When you are quietly loading more content all the time, it's easier for the user to continue …

Although "refurbished" wouldn't be the right word, I took it to mean that they would print out a new one for you, having already created the 3D model.