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Also, the subreddit /r/ethereum is modded by and features a welcome post by "vbuterin".

I think it's quite funny because like so many quotation-on-image internet memes, it's not what Franklin actually wrote. This is the actual line: "Those who would give up essential …

In the middle of this piece, after the spiral diagram, there is some interesting stuff on old text-editing software (XEDIT, Kedit).

"Pigeon milk" does exist: it is a type of crop milk, the regurgitated lining that parent birds feed to their young. But "pigeon milker" as pigeon fancier instead is a copy of the D…

"duivenmelker" in English (at least British English) would be "pigeon fancier". http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/pigeon-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon…

All of the links in the poetry section I can see have "lyrics" appended to the URL. And some of those are not even poems: http://poetry.rapgenius.com/Herman-melville-bartleby-the-s…

> If you could somehow decay the value of held currency to encourage spending directly Freicoin has a demurrage fee, based on the theories of Silvio Gesell: http://freico.in/ https…

He obviously speaks german now quite fluently How do you know he wasn't interviewed in English and his answers translated?

One thing that struck me watching that was that the timer counted down from 15 to 0. Since "gamification" is so popular amongst management and business theory these days, I was sur…

I've worked for a company that did those types of things and I found it awful. On top of the work, you had to negotiate strained, forced, Corporate Fun. After 10 hours working, the…

Every single card I flipped over had "Stuff you'll need: a Google account" and an early step that was "Sign in." Google is on a real push lately to get people to stay signed into i…

People already have: http://www.10x10bitcoin.com/ http://tenthousandbitcoinhomepage.com/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/h7b0a/remember_mill...

You snuck in "irregardless" and I claim my $5 reward. (Maybe you also snuck in "hopefully": http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/hopeful... )

Poe's Law strikes again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

Amazon has also affected independent shops for second-hand books on the high street. As has eBay. But independents also have competitors on their own turf: charity shops -- particu…

That Ferrel clip is no more or less disturbing than any featuring Al Murray doing The Pub Landlord. How many of his audience get that it's all an ironic joke?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruritania

By no means comprehensive but there are several speeches archived on this site, set up by academics at Swansea University: http://www.britishpoliticalspeech.org/speech-archive.htm