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Interesting Links for 05-04-2017
Apr. 5th, 2017 06:00 pm- Invader Zim returning to Nickelodeon
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- Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment was fascinating
- (tags: internet cooperation Reddit AprilFool via:andrewducker )
- When do memories start and what do kids remember?
- (tags: memory childhood happiness emotions )
- Has chess being 'solved' affected the game?
- (tags: chess AI games )
- Terms and Conditions, The Graphic Novel
- (tags: comics legal art )
- The Ketchup Conundrum
- (tags: food marketing psychology science )
- Twitter Blasts Kendall Jenner's Cringeworthy Pepsi Commercial
- I watched about two-thirds of the advert on silent, and couldn't watch any more.
(tags: advertising Pepsi wtf ) - Music video from 18 years ago predicts the Pepsi nonsense
- (tags: music Pepsi wtf )
- Amazingly detailed demographic maps - most of these seem to be done purely by hand
- (tags: data visualisation maps religion nationality race )
- Tomi Lahren may not get to keep her Facebook account - and that's bad for everyone
- (tags: Facebook social-media celebrity law )
- Shia LaBeouf's 'Man Down' Sells Only One Ticket in U.K. Debut
- It has Gary Oldman in it and still tanked?!
(tags: UK movies box-office wow ) - How hackers impersonated a Brazilian bank
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Interesting Links for 03-04-2017
Apr. 3rd, 2017 06:00 pm- Is Ghost in the Shell the Nail in the Coffin of Hollywood Whitewashing?
- (tags: race movies Hollywood )
- Yellow car!
- (tags: colour cars via:andrewducker )
- Anger as tampon tax is used to help fund anti-abortion group
- (tags: menstruation abortion charity OhForFucksSake via:andrewducker )
- Mega-Tunnels Dug by South American Megafauna
- (tags: animals prehistory tunnels wtf via:andrewducker )
- The milk that lasts for months
- (tags: age food cheese science )
- For 18 years, I thought she was stealing my identity. Until I found her.
- (tags: race identity names USA crime )
- Performance Artist Stood Still For 6 Hours to Let People Do What They Wanted to Her Body
- (tags: art society behaviour sadmaking )
- A step-by-step guide to building a simple chess AI
- (tags: algorithms chess games coding AI )
- At BlackRock, Machines Are Rising Over Managers to Pick Stocks
- (tags: USA AI markets data )
- Refugees Welcome (long-form articles about Syrians in Canada)
- (tags: Syria war refugees Canada )
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Interesting Links for 27-03-2017
Mar. 27th, 2017 06:00 pm- We should never have told people to start taking vitamins
- (tags: diet advice health nutrition )
- Why Millennial Pink Refuses to Go Away
- (tags: colour design fashion millenials gender )
- Literature by the Numbers
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- The Hidden Power of Stack Overflow
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- Septuagesimo Uno – A tiny park in New York City
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- What is the best comment in source code that you have ever encountered?
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- Enemy number one is Netflix: The monster that's eating Hollywood
- (tags: netflix tv via:andrewducker hollywood )
- I reverse-engineered a $500M Artificial Intelligence company in one week
- (tags: data stats AI business visualisation )
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Interesting Links for 14-03-2017
Mar. 14th, 2017 05:00 pm- Does Scotland want a second referendum
- (tags: scotland independence referendum polls via:andrewducker )
- Project Yorick
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- UK Hearthstone players aren't happy with price increases
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- Mel Gibson turning Scottish referendum into wildly inaccurate blockbuster
- (tags: independence satire funny scotland via:andrewducker )
- Mama Yuli: The trans women's leader no-one messes with
- (tags: lgbt trans Indonesia )
- Heinz actually uses the ad campaign pitched by Don Draper in 'Mad Men'
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- ‘Divisive’ referendum ‘will cause huge economic uncertainty’ says woman enacting divisive referendum causing huge economic uncertainty
- (tags: satire UK politics Scotland independence funny )
- Found: The World’s First Known Fluorescent Frog
- (tags: biology wow frogs animals Argentina )
- Sony plans to let PC owners play PS4 games
- Woohoo!
(tags: gaming computers Sony ) - Can you solve the chess problem which holds key to human consciousness?
- (tags: consciousness puzzles AI intelligence chess )
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Interesting Links for 10-03-2017
Mar. 10th, 2017 05:00 pm- 'Twin Peaks' missing posters are some damn fine viral marketing
- (tags: Twin-Peaks awesome Australia )
- 'Game of Thrones' season 7 premiere date revealed via fan torture
- (tags: funny game-of-thrones TV )
- You know nothing about snow...
- (tags: Japan snow weather wow )
- Password-less login
- (tags: passwords security coding )
- AI figured out a surprising word people text when their risk of suicide is high
- (tags: suicide mental-health AI )
- PEP 308 and why I still hate Python
- (tags: python coding wtf )
- Landlord accepted £40,000 stolen whisky as rent payment
- (tags: Scotland whisky law )
- BBC interviewee interrupted by his children live on air
- (tags: South-Korea interview children funny video )
- Alexandra Petri Is The Only Op-Ed Columnist America Needs Right Now
- (tags: writing USA politics satire )
- It's a good name, Bront
- (tags: QC webcomics funny dogs )
- How an online fight about dogs became one of 2016’s greatest memes
- (tags: memes dogs Twitter funny )
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Interesting Links for 23-02-2017
Feb. 23rd, 2017 05:00 pm- 35-Year-Old Downloads The Sims to Play Out Home Ownership Fantasy
- (tags: housing games fantasy via:andrewducker )
- The best anagrams in the English language
- (tags: coding analysis language via:andrewducker )
- A lovely Calvin and Hobbes sketch - in 3D
- (tags: comics wow art Calvin-and-Hobbes via:andrewducker )
- The Example of Easter Island Shows Why Humanity Will Be Extinct Within 100 Years
- Probably. Maybe.
(tags: extinction global-warming economics ecology ) - The Slow Confiscation of Everything
- “The end is nigh. Coffee helps.”
(tags: apocalypse climate ) - The Myers diff algorithm
- (tags: algorithms programming )
- Single women hide their ambtion if others can see them.
- (tags: feminism women jobs society via:andrewducker )
- Amazon Argues Alexa Speech Protected By First Amendment In Murder Trial Fight
- (tags: Amazon laws free-speech murder )
- Lexical Distance Among the Languages of Europe
- (tags: europe language visualisation via:andrewducker )
- The Man Who Wants to Rescue Infinity
- (tags: mathematics )
- Perspective - Now anyone can deploy Google's anti-troll API
- (tags: coding AI trolling Google )
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Interesting Links for 09-02-2017
Feb. 9th, 2017 05:00 pm- Cold-blooded and Spineless Officer - Durham County Council - North East Jobs
- (tags: funny jobs UK )
- Think your commute is bad?
- (tags: China commuting wow )
- Fire at Samsung SDI China plant caused by faulty batteries
- Oh dear
(tags: batteries fire technology OhForFucksSake ) - Why is this job not handled by a machine yet?
- (tags: technology AI jobs )
- Star Trek fans will finally get a 'Deep Space 9' sequel, but there's a catch
- (tags: star-trek documentary )
- PICO-8 lighting
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- Donald Trump: a man so obnoxious that karma may see him reincarnated as himself
- (tags: funny politics USA )
- The Real Fight...Starts Now (Hilarious take on Corbyn)
- (tags: politics satire via:andrewducker )
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Interesting Links for 02-02-2017
Feb. 2nd, 2017 05:00 pm- My Color Story
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- The beauty of mixed-radix bases
- (tags: mathematics computing numbers )
- Fake News Challenge
- (tags: news AI social-media coding )
- Sean Spicer's "Ban" Ban Didn't Last Long
- (tags: politics political-correctness language law )
- Trolls and reproduction
- (tags: Twitter trolling reproduction pregnancy )
- Truly, Madly, Guiltily - Loving your husband more than your children
- (tags: love children parenting relationships )
- 'Can I Still Eat Cheetos?' And Other Questions I Have Before I Reach Middle Age
- (tags: age fatherhood funny )
- Totalitarianism in the age of Trump: lessons from Hannah Arendt
- (tags: philosophy politics literature protests )
- "Wait Calmly" How the world reacted to Hitler's appointment as chancellor
- (tags: history nazis )
- Lychee identified as cause for mystery deadly childhood illness in India
- (tags: food India death )
- How Many People Are In Space Right Now?
- (tags: science space )
- What was your big stuff up?
- (tags: schadenfreude )
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Interesting Links for 14-11-2016
Nov. 14th, 2016 05:00 pm- If rainbows are from raindrops, why don't we see hundreds of little ones?
- Bonus: why is the sky blue?
(tags: physics science mathematics ) - "Hitler's only kidding about the antisemitism" New York Times, 1922
- (tags: politics history )
- The Lifecycle Of Software Objects (scifi short story)
- (tags: scifi literature AI )
- Why can't you copy banknotes?
- (tags: money crime technology )
- Cows stranded after New Zealand quake
- (tags: New-Zealand animals earthquake )
- Obama and Joe Biden memes are taking over the internet to cheer us all up
- (tags: obama funny meme politics usa )
- Lego ends advertising with Daily Mail after calls for companies to 'Stop Funding Hate'
- (tags: lego immigration bigotry via:andrewducker )
- The Art Behind Those Sounds Coming From Our Devices
- (tags: sounds design business technology )
- What our ancestors' third eye reveals about the evolution of mammals to warm blood
- (tags: prehistory paleaontology animals biology evolution )
- Little Ripley "Aliens" Christmas Cards
- (tags: cute xmas movies )
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Interesting Links for 02-11-2016
Nov. 2nd, 2016 09:00 pm- ‘Drama of Life Before Birth’
- (tags: photography pregnancy science )
- Don’t make fun of renowned Dan Brown
- (tags: funny review satire writing literature )
- Physicists Accidently Discover a Self-Destruct Button for the Entire Universe
- It's OK - if it's activated, we will never know.
(tags: physics universe apocalypse ) - Facebook is Much Less Addictive When You Remove the Numbers
- (tags: social-media psychology stats )
- Neural Networks learn cryptography
- (tags: AI cryptography wow )
- The Largest Bioterrorism Attack in US History Was An Attempt to Swing An Election
- (tags: terrorism cults USA politics history )
- Isaac Newton's Alchemy Experiments: Watch Silver Get Turned Into Gold
- (tags: alchemy chemistry science history )
- Inside the Carney Awards, where character actors get their due
- (tags: film TV awards )
- Facebook stops insurer from setting rates based on profiles
- (tags: social-media insurance finance OhForFucksSake )
- Millennials Are Dead. Long Live Generation C
- We trust, above all, content shared on our personal networks.
(tags: millenials marketing social-media socialnetworking ) - 10-Year-Old Boy Slays Halloween As Marie Antoinette
- (tags: costumes cosplay wow Hallowe'en )
- The fetishisation of work is making us miserable. Let’s learn to live again
- (tags: work business society )
- The Culture of Childhood: We’ve Almost Destroyed It
- (tags: education parenting children )
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Interesting Links for 04-10-2016
Oct. 4th, 2016 04:00 pm- Meet the mathekniticians - and their amazing woolly maths creations
- (tags: mathematics knitting craftwork via:andrewducker )
- How organisations enshrine collective stupidity and employees are rewarded for checking their brains at the office door
- (tags: business society management work stupidity EpicStupidity organisation via:andrewducker )
- Moral Machine
- (tags: cars AI morality philosophy )
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Interesting Links for 27-09-2016
Sep. 27th, 2016 04:00 pm- How do Convolutional Neural Networks work?
- (tags: neurons computers deep-learning AI via:andrewducker )
- Happy Petrov Day!
- (tags: nuclearweapons history epicwin apocalypse via:andrewducker )
- How child abusers are being caught by 'photo DNA'
- (tags: crime technology )
- Blue Feed, Red Feed
- (tags: facebook politics USA )
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Interesting Links for 11-08-2016
Aug. 11th, 2016 04:00 pm- Flight attendant adopts dog who waited six months outside hotel for her
- (tags: dogs awesome )
- 11 'No Man's Sky' tips and tricks
- (tags: No-Man's-Sky gaming )
- Donald Trump is like a biased machine learning algorithm
- (tags: AI politics algorithms USA )
- Trump tweets from Android vs. iPhone
- (tags: Twitter politics stats USA )
Interesting Links for 11-07-2016
Jul. 11th, 2016 04:00 pm- Particle accelerator used to read Herculaneum’s ancient (incinerated!) scrolls
- (tags: history science technology )
- The science behind why cops kill black men - and how to fix it
- (tags: racism science society )
- The Art of Persuasion: Motivational Interviewing
- (tags: psychology persuasion )
- Children who suck their thumb and bite their nails are less likely to get allergies
- (tags: children allergies immune_system via:andrewducker )
- The Surprising History of the Infographic
- (tags: data history visualisation USA )
- Searching for the perfect emoji
- (tags: emoji AI deep-learning communications technology )
- Pokemon Go is already bigger than Tinder
- ...And I can't even play it yet!
(tags: wow gaming pokemon ) - Robot finishes Super Mario Bros 3 in two seconds
- (tags: wow gaming robot )
- The story behind the backing vocals of "Gimme Shelter"
- (tags: music history )
- Confessions from people who avoided human interaction to watch Netflix
- (tags: Netflix wtf )
- The love letters of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
- (tags: lgbt history literature society )
- Oliver Curtis - VOLTE-FACE
- The view *from* famous sights
(tags: photography wow landmarks )
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Interesting Links for 11-06-2016
Jun. 11th, 2016 04:00 pm- UK startup offers landlords continuous, deep surveillance of tenants' social media
- (tags: housing social-media ffs )
- Movie written by AI algorithm turns out to be hilarious and intense
- (tags: funny movies AI )
- How to counter every hero in Overwatch
- This is going into my favourites!
(tags: Overwatch gaming ) - Blaming new technology for naturally-occuring things is not new
- (tags: technology radio )
- Quiz reveals deep misconceptions over numbers of Europeans in UK
- (tags: politics EU data )
- "Fable" by Charles Yu
- Lovely story
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Interesting Links for 08-06-2016
Jun. 8th, 2016 04:00 pm- Norway to ban fossil fuel cars by 2025
- (tags: environment fossil-fuels )
- Interracial friendships decrease over time in elementary and middle school
- (tags: science friendship prejudice racism )
- Play chess against the machine and see what it’s thinking
- (tags: gaming programming AI )
- Why everything's just a little bit sh*t, and "Creative Incompetence"
- (tags: business economics society )
- Moby has made four hours of chilled music and is letting you have it for free
- (tags: music anxiety anger pain chillout )
- Teaching human anatomy with chalkboard art
- (tags: anatomy art physiology )
- Will Trump screw up everything we know about elections?
- (tags: politics data USA )
Interesting Links for 30-05-2016
May. 30th, 2016 04:00 pm- Which is more realistic: "The Thick If It" or "Yes, Minister"?
- (tags: politics management government )
- Returning From the Threshold of Misery
- (tags: psychology happiness work via:andrewducker )
- US politics getting you down? Try an animal-themed version in this game.
- (tags: politics USA parody gaming )
- Using Artificial Intelligence to Evaluate Handwritten Mathematical Expressions
- (tags: AI development code mathematics )
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