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Slate Magazine

Tampons and pads not allowed in Texas statehouse as Senate debate on abortion begins.

This short Slate XX Factor post from July 2013 reports that security guards at the Texas Senate were confiscating tampons, pads, and other feminine products from visitors heading to the gallery for the debate on the state's controversial abortion bill, apparently to head off protesters throwing them at legislators. The writer treats it with dry humor, advising menstruating visitors, pro-choice or pro-life, to put a tampon in beforehand, and notes that reporters at the Texas Tribune confirmed the policy first reported on Twitter. It's a snapshot of the petty absurdity surrounding the fight over the bill, not an analysis of it.

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imakewebthings.com

maildrop.cc

MailDrop

Maildrop's landing page pitches a free disposable email service that needs no signup: you invent an address at maildrop.cc, give it to any site or app, and check the inbox whenever you want, so your real address never receives anything. It lists use cases such as avoiding advertisers, address-harvesting bots, insecure companies, and one-off purchases or verification emails. It also says Heluna's spam filters keep most junk out of the inbox. A separate developer pitch offers a GraphQL API for retrieving messages, meant for automating tests of an app's email sending and for filling test data with fake addresses, with a sample curl call.

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splay.at

7min Workout

Bài giới thiệu quảng bá Nowgoal, trang livescore và soi kèo bóng đá, bóng rổ, quần vợt, esports, với các mục như lịch thi đấu, bảng xếp hạng, tỷ số trực tiếp, bảng tỷ lệ kèo và tin tức. Nội dung chủ yếu là lời tự khen về tốc độ cập nhật, độ chính xác và bảo mật, kèm bảng so sánh có lợi cho Nowgoal với "nền tảng khác" mà không đưa bằng chứng nào. Điểm đáng chú ý là bài nhấn mạnh việc dùng đúng tên miền nowgoal138.com để tránh trang giả, đồng thời hướng người đọc tới việc phân tích kèo và đặt cược, nên thực chất là bài quảng cáo chứ không phải đánh giá độc lập.

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robfig.github.io

The Revel Web Framework for Go

This is the Revel web framework's landing page for Go, pitching it as a high-performance, full-stack framework with hot code reload, a synchronous goroutine-per-request model, and a stateless web tier (sessions in signed cookies, memcached-backed cache). Its central design claim is modularity: nearly everything, including the interceptor system, is implemented as swappable middleware "filters" in a default stack, so the main server handler reduces to a few lines. Code samples walk through declarative routing with type-safe reverse routes, controllers with data binding and validation, convention-based Go templates, and interceptors for transaction management. It also admits the 1.0 design is still in flux and that gaps remain, notably no built-in ORM and no pluggable template languages.

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Freakonomics

Freakonomics » One Thought About the Two Deaths in Asiana Airlines Flight 214

A short commentary written after the July 2013 Asiana Flight 214 crash in San Francisco, which killed two people. It sets the rarity of fatal U.S. airline crashes (the last commercial one was in 2009, the last major-carrier one in 2001) against roughly 143,000 to 443,000 road deaths in the intervening years, yet every outlet led with the crash. The piece questions whether "news" should mean the anomalous or the truly significant, and asks why the crash deserved top billing. Footnotes explain how the traffic fatality estimates were built from NHTSA data.

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www.nytimes.com

303 See Other

A 2013 New York Times report shows that the Postal Service runs two surveillance systems on ordinary mail: the century-old "mail covers," in which postal workers record the outside of a target's letters at law enforcement's request, and the post-anthrax Mail Isolation Control and Tracking program, which photographs the exterior of every piece of mail processed (about 160 billion pieces in a year). It starts from a former Earth Liberation Front spokesman in Buffalo who found a misdelivered card ordering his mail copied, and uses his case to frame the postal programs as the analog counterpart of the NSA's metadata collection. The piece weighs their value in cases like the ricin letters and a prostitution ring against the lack of judicial sign-off, the courts' view that envelope information carries no privacy expectation, and documented abuses such as Sheriff Joe Arpaio's tracking of a political critic.

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necolas.github.io

Chrome for Developers

Tips And Tricks - Chrome DevTools — Google Developers

This is the landing page for Chrome DevTools documentation, not a single argument or report. It presents DevTools as the browser's built-in suite for editing pages live and diagnosing problems, and the current emphasis is AI: Gemini assistance for styling, network, sources, performance and console errors, plus a DevTools MCP server that lets coding agents like Claude Code, Cline, and Copilot inspect network activity, record traces, emulate devices and run Lighthouse audits. The rest is an index to reference sections on the Performance panel (Core Web Vitals, performance insights), Sources (workspaces, editing files), and the Network panel (overriding requests and responses), along with a monthly video series on debugging scenarios.

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Tumblr

One Thing Well | Remote SSH using Back To My Mac

A short tip for reaching one Mac from another over SSH when both run OS X Lion and share an iCloud account: use Back To My Mac's IPv6 network, finding your account number with `dns-sd -E` and connecting to `computer-name.[account number].members.btmm.icloud.com` with the `-2 -6` flags. To avoid retyping the long hostname, it gives an `~/.ssh/config` entry (inet6, protocol 2) so you can just run `ssh mac-remote`. A 2012 update from a reader adds a one-line `scutil`/`sed` command to fetch the Back To My Mac address dynamically instead of hard-coding it.

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Gist

Below are simple styles to "flatten" bootstrap. I didn't go through every control and widget that bootstrap offers, only what was required for https://commando.io, so your milage may vary.

A short CSS snippet, shared as a GitHub gist, that flattens Bootstrap 2's look for the commando.io site. One rule targets a long list of components (wells, navbar, popovers, buttons, inputs, modals, alerts, dropdowns, badges, labels and more) and uses `!important` to strip out box shadows, rounded corners, and gradient background images. The author says they only covered the controls they needed, so other widgets may still look unflattened.

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macwright.org

CSS-Tricks

FooTable: a jQuery Plugin for Responsive Data Tables | CSS-Tricks

Brad Vincent introduces FooTable, a jQuery plugin for responsive data tables that combines two earlier ideas: hiding less important columns at set breakpoints (like phone and tablet) and letting each row expand to reveal the hidden data. Behavior is configured through data-* attributes on the table markup (data-hide, data-sort-ignore, data-type, data-filter), which he argues is more readable than configuring plugins like datatables.net, and breakpoints can be customized in the plugin call. It has a modular add-on architecture, with sorting released and filtering in progress, plus demos with a viewport switcher.

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www.modern.ie

Cross-browser testing simplified | Testing made easier in Internet Explorer | modern.IE

This is the Microsoft Edge developer landing page, not a single argued piece. It announces that the Chromium-based Edge is available on Windows, macOS, iOS and Android, and it points developers to resources for building extensions for the Edge Add-ons site, joining the Insider preview channels, and using PWAs, DevTools and WebView2 for embedding web content in native apps. It also links to the Edge blog (which stresses bringing Copilot to everyone), developer videos, and testing tools like WebHint and the Microsoft Accessibility Tool Extensions, so it's worth keeping mainly as a hub for Edge's developer documentation and tooling.

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BrowserStack

Cross Browser Testing Tool. 200+ Browsers, Mobile, Real IE.

The saved text is BrowserStack's marketing page, not an article with an argument. It pitches the company's testing platform as an AI-native tool for web and mobile testing, covering cross-browser, real-device, visual and accessibility checks, with AI agents across the testing lifecycle. Its main evidence is a Reddit case study (regression cycles cut from 5 days to under 2 hours, release cadence doubled) plus scale claims such as 35,000+ real devices, 21 data centers and 7 million developers. If you saved it for a specific piece of content, the page seems to have captured only the navigation and promo copy, so it's worth rechecking the original link.

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Fonts2u

Stuttgart Gothic Demo font

Stuttgart Gothic Demo is a free blackletter font from Ragnarok Press, created in 2000 with Fontographer, with a dense, angular look built from forked tips, diamond shapes and narrow joins. The page pitches it for medieval and dark-fantasy uses such as RPG branding, heavy metal merchandise, festival posters and book covers. It also lists the technical details: 103 glyphs, semi-bold weight, Unicode BMP support, and a protected, licensed embedding status.

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developer.apple.com