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vid  ·  3387 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: August 17th: What are you reading this week?

I'm still reading The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared in Swedish! It's my first book in Swedish, so I never read more than about 10 pages per day but it's quite an entertaining read and I really notice how much I progress in Swedish.

Last week I finished American Gods (though I haven't read the additional novella at the end yet) which was quite a nice read too.

I've also put The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making on my phone so I have something to read when I have nothing better to do and just my phone with me. I'm only three chapters in but liking it so far!

vid  ·  4704 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What is your favorite web comic?
I read xkcd [1] since ~2 years. It's about pop culture, technology, math/physics, language, etc.

I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one here reading it. :D

[1] http://xkcd.com/

vid  ·  3384 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Dear Hubski, what are your most recent bookmarks?

I don't know if those are the three most recent because I have no idea how to look that up but they're quite recent:

MAPfrappe allows you to compare the outlines of different countries/cities/regions by projecting them onto Google Maps. You can even create your own outlines. Very useful to get a feeling of how a big certain region really is.

Resemble.js basically like diff but for images. Lets you compare two images.

Geacron an interactive map of how the world looked (politically) in a given year. Really useful!

vid  ·  4607 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Bug with a video submission
Yeah, it's because it links to a user page ( http://www.youtube.com/user/coachella/live ) and Hubski tries to embed it.

EDIT: As a workaround you could disable video previews in your profile.

vid  ·  4649 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Which is real?
My guess: Left is real and right is rendered. The colour of this table plate just looks weird...

Impressive results anyway!

vid  ·  4664 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Duck Duck Go has passed 1M searches per day.
I'm using DDG occasionally and mainly for its goodies (which are awesome!). :)

Still it's IMO much too slow. Hope they'll improve that in the future.

vid  ·  4736 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Analytics and jazz.
Hey, first of all a big thumbs up for your work on Hubski. :) Still, I've got a little feature request: If I use the preview function on the main page and click anywhere the preview automatically disappears. That is pretty annoying. Could you add an option to toggle this feature? Thanks and keep up the good work!
vid  ·  3384 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Dear Hubski, what are your most recent bookmarks?

    Which browser do you use? I think the latest bookmarks usually settle at the bottom. But any three would do.

Chrome. And yes, they do settle at the bottom of the folder but I have different folders and just recently moved some bookmarks, so it's kind of hard for me to know which ones were the most recent.

    Looks like you are very much into geography! Super interesting!

Hah, thank you! :) I'm actually more into history but those two kind of go hand in hand.

vid  ·  3389 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Web-Comic Recommendations?

Not very active at the moment but I can recommend 1111 Comics. Some of my favourites:

#198 Cat in a box.

#189 Have you ever seen Earth from space?

#192 Bearded dragon

#162 Apple tree.

#154 The spread of ideas.

#145 *we

vid  ·  3401 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How do I change my password? // Settings page empty?

No, the problem still persists.

I tried Google Chrome 45.0.2454.15 beta (64-bit) and Safari 7.1.7 both on Mac OS X 10.9.5 and Chrome Mobile 42.0.2311.111 on Android 4.0.3. I even tried accessing Hubski with a VPN.

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I haven't used my account in years? Maybe my profile is still in an old/incompatible format?

vid  ·  3400 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How do I change my password? // Settings page empty?

Yup, now it works. Thank you! :)

vid  ·  3401 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How do I change my password? // Settings page empty?

Nope, I tried refreshing, logging out and in again, a different browser - nothing changes. I even looked at the source code. There really is nothing else there, so it's not a CSS bug, for example.

vid  ·  4627 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: American Propaganda video for soldiers stationed in Germany post-WWII [10:40]
Okay, for some reason YouTube blocks that video in Germany...
vid  ·  4722 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Hobbit: First trailer
Well, I was a little disappointed when I watched the LoTR trilogy. Much was cut out and some things were needlessly changed (e.g. the scene in the Mount of Doom).

Still-without heeding the books-it was a pretty good film trilogy.

Now, I can't judge about 'The Hobbit' since I didn't read it (yet).

vid  ·  4726 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Analytics and jazz.
Works great, thanks! :)
vid  ·  4736 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Analytics and jazz.
Oh, I don't know. Maybe 'preview-auto-hide' or 'preview-hide-on-click'...?

Thanks for your fast response! :)