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YouTube TV launches in select cities

New York City is one of the select cities that is on the premiere launch list for YouTube TV. For $35/month, it gives you six accounts that can stream local TV channels and some select channels normally reserved for cable TV. It has unlimited DVR and lets you stream your content anywhere (this actually sounds a bit suspect and I will report back later if this is indeed true and region-free).

It actually seems pretty enticing and right now you can get a 1-month free trial to see if it makes sense. I would love to have this on a spare computer just constantly streaming one specific channel on loop. Well, I guess it wouldn't be on loop. It would just be continously playing. 

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Reddit's April Fool's joke is actually kind of interesting

Reddit's 2017 April Fool's joke is located at /r/place. It allows users who have been around before March 31, 2017 to place a colored pixel on a canvas every 5 minutes. Initially, it was chaos, but amazingly, some subreddits have banded together to actually create real pixel art. This is all done over the internet and if you look at the screengrab here, some of these art pieces are quite large.

It kind of reminds me of The Million Dollar Homepage.

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Search through the digital version of the 1940s United States Census

I kind of stumbled upon this by accident. I had no idea that The New York Public Library made the 1940s U.S. Census available to the public for free, from the comfort of your home. The US National Archives is responsible for digitizing all 3.9 million items from the Census and you can view and search the entire archives for you or your family members.

The 1940s Census is an important one because it captures the state of the country during the Great Depression.

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