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cool old term – terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display

Battle scars: How the first world war changed the world

Geography changed too. After the war the Treaty of Versailles carved out new countries from what remained of the old pre-war empires. Independence was granted to the Baltic states, which had been handed to Germany in 1918 as part of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, which ended Russian involvement in the first world war. Poland was reconstituted from former Russian, German and Austro-Hungarian territories, and Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and a larger Romania were created.

Check the link for the cool swipe map overlay.

Admixture map – genetic atlas of human admixture history

Celebrating 10 Years of PHP 5.0.0

Celebrating 10 Years of PHP 5.0.0 – a good summary of what happened with PHP in the last 10 years, and where it’s all going. I can’t believe it’s been 10 years already!

marquee is back. Where’s the blink?

marquee – An implementation of <marquee> using web components. All we need now is <blink> and we are back to the 90’s.