Image: Golden, this photo is available to licence on EyeEm.
For anyone looking for a nostalgic view of rural Ireland from the late 90s / early 00s, the Bean An Tí on TG4 is the perfect tonic for you! Pro tip: turn on the English subtitles for some extra help. It's mad how quickly the Bean An Tí sucks you in, unless you are a vegetarian, then you are their worst nightmare, lol.
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Information Is Beautiful put together an infograph debunking a wide range of myths and misconceptions about the coronavirus.
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Euromomo publish weekly excess death rates for 23 european countries.
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Russ over on Twitter highlighted that 29 years ago, the first webpage was published by Tim Berners-Lee. Here it is.
29 years ago today, Tim Berners-Lee posted the first ever web page.
This is ithttps://t.co/MSxAZ2cMZK— Russ (@RussInCheshire) August 5, 2020
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Elijah Manor posted a very handy primer on how to natively format javascript dates and times using toLocaleDateString() and toLocalTimeString().
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Chapter 1: Siege of Transformers War for Cybertron was released on Netflix this week. I was unconvinced after the first episode, however after watching a few more, I really got into the slow pace and dark atmosphere of this new anime show. This is not your childhood's Transformers, nor is it anything like the Michael Bay explosion-fest, and is more akin to the IDW comic series, telling the story of the civil war on Cybertron following Megatron's uprising. The animation style is breathtaking in scenes, again with heavy nods to the story's comics ancestry. The story is a slow burner but really delivers by the end of the chapter.
Image: Allan McCollum
Artist Allan McCollum produced an online exhibition that showcases the trope of reassurance in TV & Film with variation of the phrase "Everything is going to be OK". The series is called "An Ongoing Collection ofScreengrabs With Reassuring Subtitles" however a lot of the scenes depicted don't suggest reassurance, despite the dialogue. Perhaps that's the point.
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