Nick Douglas
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We Summarised Blinkist’s Summaries Of Bestselling Books
If you haven’t heard of Blinkist, a company that took $50 million in VC funding to sell people summaries of books, don’t worry! Blinkist honours authors and publishers by making summaries of their work, mostly without permission, and selling them for $150 a year. I’m all for pretending to read books. So I’ve decided to…
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How To Plan Your Own Vampire Apocalypse
How fast can vampires take over the entire human population? Omni Calculator gives you not one answer, but six, based on vampire mythologies from Dracula, Salem’s Lot, Interview with the Vampire, Twilight, and True Blood, plus some custom scenarios. You can see the whole world converted, or how humanity fights back with slayers. You can…
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Here’s The Current Status Of Facebook And Libra
Libra season is over. On October 24, Facebook founder and Turing Test dropout Mark Zuckerberg testified to U.S. Congress for five hours about the cryptocurrency that Facebook wants to launch next year — but which now might never launch at all. Here’s what went down.
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How To Tell What Everyone Is Talking About On Social Media
If you combine FOMO with aphasia, you get the feeling of going on Twitter or Reddit or Facebook, seeing everyone clearly talking about something, but not knowing what that thing is. You check the trending topics, but they’re just full of posts saying “Why is #EatMyBlempglorf trending!?” Here’s how to figure out what the hell…