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Trapped Some Web Scrapers

Trapped Some Web Scrapers

Recently, I found On Bots, an interesting project from 2006-05-03. Someone constructed 2 billion numbered web pages, arranged as a binary search tree via hyperlinks. They tracked accesses of the web pages for a year. It looks like they were interested in how much of their binary trees got explored, and in what order more than anything else.

Google Maps: The App Is Bad

Google Maps: The App Is Bad

The Android phone application Google Maps should have been a blockbuster winner for Google, but it’s always been deeply flawed.

Origin of Body Plans

Origin of Body Plans

The origin of animal body plans: a view from fossil evidence and the regulatory genome
Douglas H. Erwin
Development 15 February 2020; 147 (4): dev182899.

Another weird series of HTTP requests

Another weird series of HTTP requests

From 2025-12-31 to 2026-07-31, 34.39.91.209 asked for the URL /posts/economic-intelligence/ 27 times a day. From 2026-08-01 to the present, 34.39.91.209 asked for /posts/economic-intelligence/ three times a day.

Diminutive Dimetrodons

Diminutive Dimetrodons

Contrasting life history in the diminutive Dimetrodon species from North America and Germany
Arore Caonville, Philipp L. Knaus, Lorenzo Marchetti & Jörg Fröbisch
Scientific Reports volume 16, Article number: 16279 (2026)

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