• Henry Bliss, America’s first pedestrian fatality, was hit by an electric taxi
  with electric-vehicles
• Hex color : The code side of color
  "Don’t let the code intimidate you. With a little creativity, hex colors are a tool at your disposal."
  with art-and-design colour
• Historic inflation calculator : How the value of money has changed since 1900
  "This calculator lets you see what money used to be worth between 1900 and 2022."
  with history
• Homerisms
  Figures of speech from "The Simpsons".
  with humour language-and-literature
• How do cryptocurrencies work?
  BBC Click
  with computers-and-it
• How do you decode a hapax? (Also, What’s a hapax?)
  "It’s a word that only appears once in a work, author’s oeuvre, or an entire language’s written record."
  with language-and-literature
• How shit happens
  "In the beginning, there was a plan. And then came the assumptions..."
  with humour
• How snake oil became a symbol of fraud and deception
  with miscellany
• How the idea of a ‘normal’ person got invented
  "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.)
  with miscellany
• How the index card cataloged the world
  "Carl Linnaeus, the father of biological taxonomy, also had a hand in inventing this tool for categorizing anything."
  with cataloguing-and-metadata by 2 users
• How the quintessential villain's melody snuck into the popular consciousness
  "...the Mysterioso Pizzicato is a musical go-to for sneaky situations, forever associated with thieves, creeps, stalkers and spies." (dum-dum-dum-dum-daaaaaaaa-dum-dum-dum-dum)
  with miscellany
• How to choose the right face for a beautiful body
  "What is it that makes a typeface into a text font, instead of a font for larger sizes?"
  with typography
• How to count the frequency of text values in a column [Excel]
  with computers-and-it
• How to delete your Gmail account without deleting your Google account
  with computers-and-it
• How to geocode addresses using QGIS
  "If you have a CSV formatted file containing addresses, you can take advantage of QGIS to map out those addresses. This article contains step by step instructions for geocoding addresses using QGIS." With video.
  with maps-and-mapping
• How to make your own wood prints from your photos
  with photography
• How to pin point multiple locations on Google Maps
  "If you want to display a map on your website that has more than one location plotted on it, you will need to create this on the Google Maps website and then embed it on to your [...] site."
  with maps-and-mapping
• How to play electric guitar through headphones (without losing your tone)
  with music
• I'm not a huge fan
  xkcd
  with humour
• Icons for Everything
  The Noun Project : "The most comprehensive icon collection in the world. Our community of designers from 120+ countries is building the most diverse and extensive collection of iconography ever created."
  with art-and-design by 2 users

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