Interesting chart about the lexical distance among the languages of Europe.
Links
Link In Private Message = Public Like
It seems on Facebook sending a link to a page with a “Like” button in a private message will be counted as a public “like” from you. You’re welcome.
justdelete.me
Just Delete Me – Find out how to delete your account on a service you don’t want to be on any more. … Did somebody say Facebook?
Spacegrey UI Theme for Sublime Text
Spacegrey – an awesome and really good-looking UI theme for Sublime Text.
Reflections In Your Eyes
I get a murky feeling finding things like this. Pictures have quite a high resolution. So much so that researchers can recognize faces reflected in the eyes of people in pictures. :/
Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias
This is probably my favorite Wikipedia article: Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias.
I even added “Car engine revving” in Turkish and something else I don’t quite remember any more … probably “Bite” in German. 🙂
Auto-play Ads on Facebook
Of course ads are what people enjoy most on Facebook. So now we bring you: auto-play video ads. You’re welcome. 😀
Facebook Tracks Messages You Never Sent
Remember the message you wrote on Facebook, but never hit “send”? … Well Facebook certainly does … “for research purposes” :/ … and don’t think the other ad-financed networks do any better.
Explaining Shell Commands
Let explainshell.com explain your shell commands and let it look up arguments and flags. 😀
Forensic Architecture
Forensic Architeture is an interesting research project analyzing target sites of drone strikes from publicly available information. They remodel and reconstruct the architectural features of those sites and provide necessary context for human rights violation investigations carried out by UN Special Rapporteur on Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights (UNSRCT) Ben Emmerson.