The Emularity

oldweb.today -- which, amazingly, is an actual URL that works -- lets you run ancient web browsers in your browser, but instead of pointing those old browsers at anachronistically modern versions of those pages, it pulls the correspondingly-old pages out of the Wayback Machine.

It runs the browsers by running a virtual Linux on the backend, that then runs emulators of the older operating systems inside it, that themselves run the browsers. It's turtles all the way down.

This is absolutely brilliant. Source here.

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Today in terrorist cosplay news

Two life size Victorian dolls were spotted taking the Tube and wandering around town freaking out commuters this morning.

The seriously creepy dolls, who were spotted playing with a toy train set at Hamleys and pushing an empty antique pram along Tube platforms, were actually promoting Derren Brown's new theme park ride.


Teen refuses to stop dressing like a clown at night and terrorizing town

Another day, another mysterious clown terrorizing a city under the cover of night. In this case, it's a so-called "developmentally delayed teenager" in Waukesha, Wisconsin, who wants to scare the hell out of everyone. It seems to be working.

Mother of teen dressed as clown defends his actions.

MOM OF THE YEAR!

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