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<category domain="https://envs.net/~lucidiot/rsrsss/">Feed</category>
<link>https://500mile.email/feed.xml</link>
<description><![CDATA[
<p>Have you heard about the <a href="http://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles" target="_blank">500-mile email</a> story? If not, do go read it, it is a classic for nerds. Someone made a website listing various other interesting troubleshooting stories like those, and there is an RSS feed!</p>
<p>Updates are pretty rare, but it still an interesting feed to have; on the rare occasion that a new article gets there, you know you're in for an great read.</p>
<p>Have you heard about the <a href="http://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles" target="_blank">500-mile email</a> story? If not, do go read it, it is a classic for nerds. Someone made a website listing various other interesting troubleshooting stories like those, and there is an RSS feed!</p>
<p>Updates are pretty rare, but it still an interesting feed to have; on the rare occasion that a new article gets there, you know you're in for an great read.</p>
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<title>Publications Office of the European Union</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2021 09:02:47 +0200</pubDate>
<guid isPermaLink="false">op.europa.eu</guid>
<category domain="https://envs.net/~lucidiot/rsrsss/">Tip</category>
<link>https://op.europa.eu/</link>
<description><![CDATA[
<p>Did you know that the EU has a publications office, dedicated to all of the EU's legal texts, magazines, or other publications. They used to maintain a website called the EU Bookshop, which allows you to order their publications, some of them for free and with no shipping fees for addresses within the European Union. The site went through a redesign earlier this year, and while I have some complaints, it seems they upgraded their servers and I no longer can create HTTP 502 errors just by clicking a little too fast; and more importantly, you can have RSS feeds.</p>
<p>If you register for an account, you can save your searches and then either create email alerts about any new publication in the search results, or get an RSS feed of it. I use that to follow various terms like <em>bookmark</em>, <em>postcard</em>, <em>calendar</em> and <em>USB</em>: I know some people who collect bookmarks, the free postcards they make give me nice illustrations for my notebooks, the calendars usually are large A0 posters so I can fill my wall with them, and they used to offer three publications in the form of USB drives, so I stay on the lookout for that. I should probably also add <em>notebook</em> to the lot, because I have a drawer full of free notebooks. My very first Bullet Journal was started on one of those books.</p>
<p>The website is supposed to only allow you to order one free copy per email address (or per account if you registered, since you can also order without registering), and you will need to confirm your email address if you order as a guest. Since some mail providers like Gmail let you get away with putting dots or dashes in your address and will redirect to your actual email, you can actually get much more from a single address; I was using only the dots and counted in binary to get all the possible unique combinations of dots while ordering a hundred USB keys or nearly a hundred notebooks. I got them all, in a hundred separate envelopes. That was a lot of fun :D</p>
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