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Meet the YouTube Mortician teaching people not to fear death

Aug06
by on August 6, 2019 at 1:52 pm
Posted In: Around the Web


Growing up, I watched Disney movies on repeat where a mermaid gave up her voice for a man and was taught I should be a damsel in distress until my Prince Charming rescued me. But I was sheltered from movies like Bambi and Lion King where, for once, the evil character didn’t die, the loved parent did. After hours of therapy (alone at night thinking about death and staring into the pit of darkness that is my soul), I self-diagnosed my borderline unhealthy obsession with death to have occurred because I was never exposed to death. Death is something we…

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The ‘feral hog’ meme encapsulates the best side of the internet

Aug06
by on August 6, 2019 at 1:43 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Social Media


If you’ve opened Twitter today, you’ll likely have been inundated with a single theme: feral hogs. Yep, when I stirred, and flipped open my phone this morning, my feed was filled with memes about garden-roaming, kid-attacking wild swine. I was utterly confuddled. After a bit of digging, I found the tweet that started it all: Legit question for rural Americans – How do I kill the 30-50 feral hogs that run into my yard within 3-5 mins while my small kids play? — William McNabb (@WillieMcNabb) August 4, 2019 Now, anyone who spends any sort of time online knows memes…

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How to watch Samsung’s Note 10 event on August 7

Aug06
by on August 6, 2019 at 12:26 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Samsung is holding its Galaxy Unpacked event tomorrow, which will unveil a bunch of gadgets including its latest flagship phone, the Galaxy Note 10. The event will start at 4 PM ET/ 1 PM PT / 1.30 AM IST (Thursday) / 9 PM CET on August 7. You can tune into the live stream on Samsung’s own website or the company’s official YouTube channel. Time to level up. Galaxy Unpacked on August 7, 2019. #SamsungEvent pic.twitter.com/2CtFPjFCAr — Samsung Mobile (@SamsungMobile) July 2, 2019 According to earlier reports, Samsung’s newest flagship will have two variants: the Galaxy Note 10 and the bigger…

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Combinations, Combinations. A challenge

Aug06
by on August 6, 2019 at 12:17 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Data Analysis, Miscellany, MVP

In case you’re bored stiff during your holiday, here’s a nice Excel challenge for you all.

In my newsletter for May 2019 I showed you a trick to get all possible combinations of two lists. This time I have a related problem. Suppose I have 10 ballot tickets. My job is to draw 5 random tickets from that set of 10 repeatedly until I have drawn all possible combinations:

The challenge I would like to give you all:
Please use any technique in Excel to list all possible unique combinations of ticket numbers drawn this way (note that the order in which the tickets are drawn makes no difference and that each number can only be drawn once per set of 5).

What’s in it for you?

The 5 best submissions will receive:

Send your solutions to info@jkp-ads.com using this subject line: “JKPADS Combinations Challenge”

Submission ends on September 9, 2019

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CHEAP: Good goddamn, Google’s Pixel 3 is only $499 — THAT’S 37% OFF, YO

Aug06
by on August 6, 2019 at 12:17 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! There are a whole load of good Android phones out there, but there aren’t many great ones. In that category (which we’ve discussed before) there are a handful of companies making top class devices: Samsung are one. And another? Google. The tech giant’s Pixel phones are some of the best on the market, with the Pixel 3 getting strong reviews across the board. Hell, we’re big fans of the devices. So, if you’ve been holding out on picking up a Google Pixel 3, your wait…

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