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rickyconnolly

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I am a lowly bioreaction engineer from Ireland.
  1. The Nazi's comprehensive graphic standards manual (observatory.designobserver.com)

    Here's a link to a PDF of the book itself, if you want to try your hand at reading German printed in tightly-spaced Fraktur:…

    2 points 1
  2. The letter Q was illegal in Turkey from 1928 until last month (lrb.co.uk)
    92 points 56
  3. Reading a Message from ET (spacedaily.com)
    1 points 0
  4. Mapping America: Every City, Every Block [2010] (projects.nytimes.com)
    3 points 0
  5. Photographing hallucinations (mindhacks.com)
    2 points 0
  6. Disabled toilets: What is a Radar key? (bbc.co.uk)
    1 points 0
  7. Map of Pangea supercontinent with current nation borders (eatrio.net)
    6 points 3
  8. North Korea's silent football matches (bbc.co.uk)
    54 points 55
  9. Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died [1996] (orthodoxytoday.org)
    1 points 0
  10. Ask HN: why is it faster to delete files from a disc than to write them?
    6 points 4
  11. How Amazon sellers turn a profit selling books for one cent (pacifictrailbooks.com)
    1 points 0
  12. Australian attorney is granted a patent for the wheel (2001) (hl7.org.au)

    Figure 1 is a particular howler.

    2 points 0
  13. Amazing natural phenomenon where two different seas meet (flickr.com)
    1 points -1
  14. Book printed with enitre RGB colour space (blog.makezine.com)
    2 points 0
  15. Scientist crowdfunds his amphetamine research (perlsteinlab.com)
    2 points 0
  16. The plot to use vaccines to find Osama Bin Laden (scienceblogs.com)
    1 points 0
  17. In other space news: China launch their first female taikonaut (spaceflightnow.com)
    1 points 0
  18. Amazing animations of biomolecules in action (youtube.com)
    1 points 0
  19. How Tupac, dead since 1996, played live at this years Coachella festival (cbsnews.com)
    3 points 0
  20. Why build orbital space colonies? (space.alglobus.net)
    1 points 0
  21. What convicts can teach us about branding (davidairey.com)
    2 points 1
  22. Web server offers true random numbers via fluctuations of the quantum vacuum (jwz.org)
    73 points 53
  23. What A 16th Century Guild Teaches Us About Competition (bigthink.com)
    1 points 0
  24. Want more bang for your buck from prescription drugs? Drink grapefruit juice (biosingularity.com)
    4 points 2
  25. Interview with a master stonecutter (ilovetypography.com)
    1 points 0