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Supporting English beer culture

My birthday present to myself this year was a CAMRA membership. The Campaign for Real Ale is a consumer organisation advocating “quality real ale, cider and perry and thriving pubs in every community.” As a beer ...

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Open Film Database (OFDb)

If you’re looking for a film database that is free and open, the OFDb is something for you: a database of your favourite movies, published under the ODbL.

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Bibimbap

A nice recipe for the Korean dish Bibimbap. Besides being delicious, it takes me back to my time spent in Asia 🌏. If you’re a vegetarian, simply leave out the meat and enjoy the veggies.

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Vertical Forest, Milan

I recently stumbled upon the “Vertical Forest” (ital. Bosco Verticale) in Milan, two award-winning skyscrapers. Don’t they look cool?

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Covid-19 statistics for South Africa

A very useful overview for tracking Coronavirus cases in South Africa.

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The filming location database is online!

After many hours of work, the filming location database is finally online. It’s an open and free database of filming locations: the data is licensed under the ODbL.

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Ethical Tech Giving Guide

Giving presents to someone who cares about Soft- and Hardware Freedom is difficult (I know my wife struggles). The Free Software Foundation’s Ethical Tech Giving Guide can help you to find the perfect gift.

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Does money make you mean?

Paul Piff is a social psychologist, talking about his research on how people behave when they feel wealthy.

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Poison City Brewing

Probably the best craft beer I had so far in South Africa. Worth the mention.

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Public Money, Public Code

“We want legislation requiring that publicly financed software developed for the public sector be made publicly available under a Free and Open Source Software licence.”