Netvouz / madelvic http://netvouz.com/madelvic?feed=rss&pg=24 madelvic's bookmarks on Netvouz Historic inflation calculator : How the value of money has changed since 1900 https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-1633409/Historic-inflation-calculator-value-money-changed-1900.html "This calculator lets you see what money used to be worth between 1900 and 2022." madelvic Wed, 07 May 2008 13:15:25 GMT Home Office Open Document Format adoption plan (2015) https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-open-document-format-adoption-plan/home-office-open-document-format-adoption-plan "In July 2014 the government adopted the Open Document Format (ODF) as its single standard for 'sharing and collaborating'." madelvic Tue, 06 May 2025 13:26:19 GMT Homerisms http://inpraiseofargument.squarespace.com/homerisms/ Figures of speech from "The Simpsons". madelvic Mon, 14 May 2007 15:42:24 GMT How a book is made https://youtu.be/b3YDL7cwh1o YouTube video madelvic Fri, 27 Jun 2025 12:21:03 GMT How do cryptocurrencies work? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/technology-43026143 BBC Click madelvic Thu, 15 Feb 2018 18:00:59 GMT How do you decode a hapax? (Also, What’s a hapax?) https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hapax-legomenon-hapaxes "It’s a word that only appears once in a work, author’s oeuvre, or an entire language’s written record." madelvic Fri, 08 Sep 2017 10:21:24 GMT How shit happens https://web.mnstate.edu/alm/humor/ThePlan.htm "In the beginning, there was a plan. And then came the assumptions..." madelvic Fri, 03 May 2024 08:39:49 GMT How snake oil became a symbol of fraud and deception https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-snake-oil-became-a-symbol-of-fraud-and-deception-180985300/ madelvic Wed, 23 Oct 2024 14:40:02 GMT How the idea of a ‘normal’ person got invented https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/the-invention-of-the-normal-person/463365/ "The notion that there is a 'normal' height or a 'normal' salary is a relatively new one, and it's had a profound effect on how people think about each other and themselves." (Plus Adolphe Quetelet and 5,738 Scottish soldiers.) madelvic Wed, 11 May 2016 11:52:11 GMT How the index card cataloged the world https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/12/how-the-index-card-catalogued-the-world/547271/ "Carl Linnaeus, the father of biological taxonomy, also had a hand in inventing this tool for categorizing anything." madelvic Mon, 18 Dec 2017 14:46:47 GMT