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https://pinboard.in Been a Pinboard user for several years. Simple and flexible. You can use tags to organize everything or fill in the bookmarks description field and use search. …

They already have scanners with countdown timers that track and enforce an average time to scan. http://amazonemancipatory.com/time-to-pick-countdown-timer This tracks pretty well …

The other night I watched the 1989 movie [Patlabor]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patlabor:_The_Movie ) directed by Mamoru Oshii who went on to direct Ghost in the Shell in 1995. …

The rendered typeface is Stem Text. If you click on an element with the typeface and go to the computed tab that will show you what font-family style is applied.

Though often that flow of information on the internet is through Facebook and they have control over certain information valves as stated by earlier posters. In application just be…

Little Baby Bum 13 billion + Blu Toys Surprise Brinquedos & Juegos 6 billion views = 19 billion views. If 90% of those views are from bots that still leaves about 2 billion views f…

That is an important caveat and it's hard to accurately pin down since there is no idea of how many of these views are generated by users or by bots. For the real view number of bi…

I guess there are two sections to it. There is now a lot of media self created media for gay teens and young adults. Media in that YouTube realm occasionally leaks or crosses lines…

I would say they the author dragged the readers into the dark depths of YouTube, but the billions of views on these videos belay that metaphor. The ending is as pointed as it can b…

It's a really great game that is best approached without too many spoilers. Know that the game becomes more complex and engaging as it goes on. There is a definite end and takes ab…

Can any active users comment on the package ecosystem. Active? Running into any problems?

The third party service described in the article seems to no longer exist. Though if you look through there support information you can find that you can go to m.uber.com to reques…

Source of your information? Are you saying that over 2.32 billion people don't have access to clean drinking water? That seems way off. Even though there may 2.32 billion people wi…

I agree it's a very important problem no doubt, but Uber aims to solve it in an exclusive way. Exclusive in that it requires the user to be wealthy and technically proficient enoug…

Another case from 2013... US Citizens, Phones stolen, detained without explanation, and officers refused to give names. "OTM producer Sarah Abdurrahman, her family, and her friends…

Oh yes the "chumbox" https://theawl.com/a-complete-taxonomy-of-internet-chum-de0b...

Adjusting font size with vw is fun, but often the rate at which the font scales is kind of loopy especially when compared to small type. This article takes the example you mentione…

I think the article is shortsighted. I can't argue for the merits of cable news, but there are many media organizations that have been increasingly shut out by this administration.…

>“in an era of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil and mass killings in schools, police agencies need to be ready for whatever comes their way..." There has always been terrorism in the…

My little anecdote. I was at the library today and it was packed even though it was a Sunday and only open for about four hours. My library was is a definite hub of my community an…