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Interesting Links for 06-10-2017
Oct. 6th, 2017 06:00 pm- Maori LGBTQ term takatāpui
- (tags: LGBT New-Zealand Moari )
Interesting Links for 05-10-2017
Oct. 5th, 2017 06:00 pm- Let’s get ready to Twitter Cathedral rumble!
- (tags: twitter funny )
- Marvel Hints At Upcoming Death Of Stan Lee
- (tags: Marvel satire comics movies funny )
- Why the Thames water level changes rapidly during a day in London?
- (Trust the British/Reddit to go full snark on this.)
(tags: funny london science sarcasm Reddit ) - Here's why Australians will never understand the US obsession with guns
- (tags: data visualisation guns USA Australia )
- As Goes the Middle Class, So Goes TGI Fridays
- (tags: millenials business middle-class economics money )
- Google Translate gender bias
- (tags: bias gender language Google )
- The Coming Software Apocalypse
- (tags: code software programming )
- On language and racism in the Netherlands
- (tags: Netherlands language racism via:andrewducker )
Interesting Links for 03-10-2017
Oct. 3rd, 2017 06:00 pm- HyperRogue: a non-Euclidean Roguelike
- (tags: Roguelike mathematics non-Euclidean videogames )
- Things More Heavily Regulated Than Buying a Gun in the United States
- (tags: satire guns USA )
- Retirement doesn’t look as alluring for those afflicted with psychological issues
- (tags: mental-health depression retirement anxiety money finances )
- Why immoral actions seem impossible
- (tags: morality psychology )
- Award winning home brewing priest told by bishop to stop
- (tags: USA beer brewing OhForFucksSake religion )
- A map of what it would be like if all of the European Independence movements succeeded
- (tags: independence maps europe via:andrewducker )
Interesting Links for 02-10-2017
Oct. 2nd, 2017 06:00 pm- The Satanic Temple Has An Ingenious Plan To Troll Anti-Gay Bakeries
- (tags: lgbt religion USA laws )
- The moment analogue TV & Ceefax shutdown, 23rd October 2012
- (tags: history technology TV Ceefax )
- Know The Best Time To Travel
- (tags: shopping travel web )
- Anti-abortion MP Jacob Rees-Mogg admits making money from abortion pills
- (tags: abortion uk investment politics )
Interesting Links for 29-09-2017
Sep. 29th, 2017 06:00 pm- There's now a C64 mini
- (tags: computing gaming retro )
- An Afghan hound swimming underwater
- (tags: weird dogs video )
- Bank of England governor gives fresh hint interest rates will rise
- (tags: interest-rates economics UK banking finance )
- Oldest evidence of life on Earth found in Canadian rocks
- (tags: wow prehistory palaeontology life )
- A Lego World Map
- (tags: Lego world map )
- Hugh Hefner Is Still Exploiting Marilyn Monroe, Even in Death
- (tags: death inequality feminism exploitation )
- Gin Blossoms: The Tragic Death Behind Their Best Song
- (tags: music death lyrics history )
- Yak Shaving
- (I am amused to be reminded of this term again)
(tags: procrastination productivity words ) - Why you really should start your Christmas shopping now
- (tags: xmas shopping )
- Right to Practise Upheld by UK Court
- (tags: music law UK )
- The One and Only Time I Held My Son
- (Heartbreaking)
(tags: sadmaking death grief babies parenthood ) - The untold origin story of Creative Assembly
- (tags: videogames )
Interesting Links for 26-09-2017
Sep. 26th, 2017 06:00 pm- Video Game Companies Reach 'Tentative' Agreement To End Voice Actor Strike
- (tags: voice-acting videogames strike acting )
- Barbed Wire Telephone Lines
- (tags: inventions telephones USA history )
- The West Wing: Review S18E29
- (tags: satire politics West-Wing USA funny )
- Owls sneeze?!
- (tags: owl sneeze )
- Why Our Brains Don't Explode at Film Cuts
- (tags: film movies psychology neurology editing )
- The shorter your sleep, the shorter your life
- (tags: health science sleep )
- A short trip
- (tags: illustration art )
- Why Ceramic Coffee Cups Have Rough Spots
- (tags: design history )
- Accepting The State Of Being Stuck
- (tags: learning mathematics psychology )
- Forest ring - like a fairy ring, but with trees (and up to a mile wide!)
- (tags: trees weird )
- Neighbour saves 90-year-old from loneliness
- (tags: feelgood loneliness )
- The Great Silicon Heist
- (tags: theft silicon technology )
- My Destiny fireteam got me through the hardest time of my life
- (tags: death gaming videogames Destiny )
- The story behind the world's greatest Brownie recipe comment
- (tags: funny internet )
- Over 2,500 products have shrunk in size over the last five years. Now including Jaffa cakes
- (tags: food inflation uk )
Interesting Links for 25-09-2017
Sep. 25th, 2017 06:00 pm- Catastrophic lack of sleep in modern society is killing us
- (tags: sleep health via:andrewducker )
- I can't make it to "Thing Explaining with Randall Munroe" but you should go
- (tags: xkcd )
- Netflix, Microsoft, and Google just quietly changed how the web works
- (tags: copyright standards )
- Small Child Cannot Comprehend That The Game Boy Does Not Have A Touch Screen
- Reminder: children born post-smartphones/tablets have not been conditioned to use buttons.
(tags: funny technology wow children video ) - Psychogeography
- (tags: cities gentrification comics funny )
- 30 Days Timelapse at Sea
- (tags: video timelapse sea travel ships wow )
- Don’t overthink your exercise
- (tags: exercise health )
- Brand logos, drawn from memory
- (tags: advertising branding design logos )
- Development of cavity vaccines has been attempted for decades
- (tags: vaccines dentistry teeth )
- Jared Kushner used private email for White House business
- (tags: USA politics OhForFucksSake email )
- How I hacked hundreds of companies through their helpdesk
- (tags: email hacking security )
- How Trump Bungled the Politics of Football
- (tags: american-football politics USA )
- Deloitte hit by cyber-attack revealing clients’ secret emails
- (tags: hacking OhForFucksSake security Microsoft )
- North Korea says Donald Trump's latest comments are 'clearly a declaration of war'
- (tags: politics war North-Korea USA )
Interesting Links for 22-09-2017
Sep. 22nd, 2017 06:00 pm- Female film casting same as 100 years ago
- (tags: gender-inequality film movies UK )
- UK banks to check 70m bank accounts in search for illegal immigrants
- (tags: OhForFucksSake immigration UK Brexit politics banking )
- People Prefer Buying Products With High Number of Reviews, Despite Ratings
- (tags: psychology ratings shopping )
- Once Bullied For Her Love Of Bugs, 8-Year-old Co-Authors Scientific Paper
- (tags: children science insects Twitter feelgood )
- The EU Suppressed a 300-Page Study That Found Piracy Doesn’t Harm Sales
- (tags: piracy EU streaming OhForFucksSake )
- Air + sand = fluid?
- (tags: video wow sand )
- When Amazon recommendations and dodgy journalism lead to a moral panic
- (tags: Amazon journalism panic OhForFucksSake via:andrewducker )
- Some things are racist
- (tags: racism )
Interesting Links for 21-09-2017
Sep. 21st, 2017 06:00 pm- Teenager's good deed caught on camera
- (You may now return to your regular newsfeed of disappointment)
(tags: feelgood happy-news ) - Millennials spend three times more of their income on housing than their grandparents did
- (tags: money housing uk via:andrewducker )
- Edinburgh’s unbuilt Inner Ring Road
- (tags: Edinburgh transport history Scotland via:andrewducker )
- Feeling bad about failure is part of how we learn to do better
- (tags: failure psychology emotion via:andrewducker )
- What do the British think of golliwogs?
- (tags: polls race racism uk via:andrewducker )
- Write E-Mails That People Won’t Ignore
- (I wish certain people I work with would learn some of this)
(tags: email communication ) - A really sweet easter egg in tribute to the memory of Nintendo's CEO
- (tags: Nintendo easter-egg death gaming )
- This Extinct Frog Probably Ate Crocodiles and Dinosaurs
- (tags: biting frogs palaeontology biology science )
- Turning Off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth in iOS 11's Control Center Doesn’t Actually Turn Off Wi-Fi or Bluetooth
- (tags: fail wifi Bluetooth wtf OhForFucksSake tech Apple iPhone )
- The Freddo Index
- (tags: data chocolate economy money UK )
- "So. Twitter. I've just had the plumber round."
- (tags: wow conspiracy-theory Twitter story )
Interesting Links for 19-09-2017
Sep. 19th, 2017 06:00 pm- How Snickers used a 'Hungerithm' to link its price to the mood of Australians
- (tags: algorithms data social-media advertising chocolate Australia )
- UK debt is explosive – and it only needs a spark to light the fuse
- (tags: debt economy UK )
- A pirate site explores a new way of paying for the Internet that doesn't involve ads
- (tags: internet advertising piracy economics money cryptocurrency )
- The impossible “literacy” test Louisiana used to give black voters
- (tags: history politics racism voting )
- Devs unknowingly use “malicious” modules snuck into official Python repository
- (tags: python security coding )
Interesting Links for 18-09-2017
Sep. 18th, 2017 06:00 pm- Emmy to Handmaid's Tale (and San Junipero!)
- (tags: awards Emmy TV )
- Black Metal Cats - Cat pics paired with metal lyrics
- (tags: twitter cats metal music funny )
- Scottish crew on Robert the Bruce earning £200 less than English
- (tags: movies pay-gap Scotland )
- Emailing 25k Marilyn Manson fans a video of their house
- (tags: video location marketing music data via:andrewducker )
- An almost-literal 'oh sh*t' email moment
- (tags: email funny work )
- Art piece uses wind power to mine for cryptocurrency, which it then donates to climate change research
- (tags: art climate climate-change science cryptocurrency renewables )
- Challenge: Build a working game of Tetris in Conway's Game of Life
- (So they built an entire computer from the ground up instead and just ported the game over...)
(tags: wow design code programming Tetris Game-Of-Life ) - The 10,000 Domino Computer
- (tags: computing video dominoes )
- Warren Buffett wins $1M bet made a decade ago that the S&P 500 stock index would outperform hedge funds
- (tags: finance investment gambling via:andrewducker )
- Guy on disability benefit sees Antiques Roadshow highest appraisal episode & realizes he has that same item
- (tags: happy-news antiques USA disability )
- Obsolete Technology
- (Try telling that to North Korea)
(tags: xkcd tech funny comic webcomic ) - Form new habits instead of breaking old ones
- (tags: habits psychology )
- My Mental Illness Convinces Me My Friends Hate Me
- (tags: mental-health depression anxiety relationships friendship )
Interesting Links for 14-09-2017
Sep. 14th, 2017 09:00 pm- A shi story
- (tags: chinese language story )
- Useful abbreviations for the time-pressed online reader
- (tags: abbreviations internet humour comic )
- The #Giving Tree
- (tags: internet childhood literature funny satire )
- 40-year-old train destined for ScotRail catches fire
- "...giving Scotland not only the railway it deserves but the best railway it's ever had."
(tags: fire trains Scotland OhForFucksSake ) - "Today I had one of, if not, THE saddest experience of my life."
- (tags: death sadmaking love )
- New £10 note is 16% smaller and worth 15% less than pre-Brexit tenner
- (tags: money Brexit politics )
