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# ✱ 5ives 015
- URL: https://www.trxl.co/2014-6-27--5ives-015/
- Published: 2014-06-27T16:01:48.000Z
- Updated: 2023-07-25T00:26:01.000Z
- Author: Evan Troxel
- Tags: 5ives, #sqs, #Import-blog1, #evantroxel-me-com

After taking a couple of weeks off for a much needed vacation, 5ives is back.

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### 1\. [Digital photos way back from the year 2000 (Game Boy edition)](http://www.ironicsans.com/2014/05/new%5Fyork%5Fcity%5Fin%5F2000%5Fphotogra.html)

[And speaking of Nintendo](http://grantland.com/features/the-rise-of-nintendo-video-games-history/) (bonus linkage)

### 2\. [D-day landings scenes in 1944 and now – interactive](http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/ng-interactive/2014/jun/01/d-day-landings-scenes-in-1944-and-now-interactive)

Peter Macdiarmid has taken photographs of locations in France and England to match with archive images taken before, during and after the D-day landings. The Allied invasion to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi occupation during the second world war took place on 6 June 1944\. Operation Overlord was the largest seaborne invasion in military history, with more than 156,000 Allied troops storming the beaches of France

### 3\. [The History of the Tax Code](https://turbotaxcpaselect.intuit.com/history-of-taxes/)

I know... taxes. But check it out anyway.

### 4\. [The Fermi Paradox](http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html)

Some people stick with the traditional, feeling struck by the epic beauty or blown away by the insane scale of the universe. Personally, I go for the old “existential meltdown followed by acting weird for the next half hour.” But everyone feels something.  
Physicist Enrico Fermi felt something too—”Where is everybody?”

### 5\. [THE AEROPRESS INVENTOR'S SECRET TO A PERFECT CUP OF COFFEE](http://www.fastcompany.com/3027638/creation-stories/the-aeropress-inventors-secret-to-a-perfect-cup-of-coffee)

There are more elegant ways to brew coffee today than ever before. And yet one of the most popular methods involves a sterile plastic tube that bears a striking resemblance a certain enhancement pump for the male anatomy. It is called the AeroPress, and it is $25, simple to use, and makes a very good--and very fast--cup of coffee.

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## And a quote for the weekend:

> “” — Albert Einstein

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You might be asking yourself what 5ives is all about. [Find out here](http://www.evantroxel.com/blog/2014/3/7/-introducing-5ives).