#bestoftheweb — Public Fediverse posts
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Should you ever be looking for information on a weird old plug or socket, or are just interested in such things, the online "Museum of Plugs and Sockets" is one of those sites that makes the Internet seem like less of a terrible mistake than usual.
The page on old British "BS 546" is unmatched, in particular: https://plugsocketmuseum.nl/OldBritish1.html
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CW: English politics
Metafilter comments on "What Have Fourteen Years of Conservative Rule Done to Britain?" by Sam Knight in The New Yorker.
(What is Metafilter? A community blog started in the last century. It's all about the comments, which are moderated to a decent standard, and tend to be thoughtful. Desparing, and thoughtful.)
https://www.metafilter.com/203181/Rude-Britannia
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3/ Over time #SearchEngines largely replaced #WebDirectories - the ability to #search more of the #internet became more important than the ability to find the #BestOfTheWeb.
While we gained much in this manner we also lost much. I think we can still see folks yearning for #HumanAugmentation in the popularity of #AwesomeLists, e.g.:
https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python
https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go
https://github.com/vuejs/awesome-vue
https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-loveThe lists go on...