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Interesting Links for 12-06-2017
Jun. 12th, 2017 06:00 pm- All 213 Beatles Songs, Ranked From Worst to Best
- I disagree with the ranking, but there are some valid points made throughout
(tags: music The-Beatles ) - The Book of Jeremy Corbyn
- (tags: funny satire politics UK )
Interesting Links for 07-05-2017
May. 7th, 2017 06:00 pm- The most cringeworthy interview of the year and it's only May
- (tags: interview OhForFucksSake )
- Malaphors
- Daily doses of malaprop in metaphor form
(tags: language funny ) - Lady Mondegreen says her peace about egg corns
- (tags: english language funny )
- The British and their exceptionalism
- "...few have ever allowed the belief in their exceptionalism to damage their economic and political interests in quite the way Britain is currently doing."
(tags: UK EU Brexit politics economics )
Interesting Links for 31-03-2017
Mar. 31st, 2017 06:00 pm- Leave Voters Want A Brexit Britain With Capital Punishment, School Beatings And Inefficient Lighting
- (tags: Brexit history OhForFucksSake )
- The Trauma of Facing Deportation
- (tags: psychology children refugees Sweden immigration )
- 124-Year-Old Never-Worn Levi's Found
- (tags: clothes history USA )
- Rage Rooms Are Not A Good Idea
- (tags: psychology anxiety anger )
- Valerian's biggest problem is that it did everything first
- I'm still looking forward to it though!
(tags: movies scifi comics ) - Build-A-Bear Have Some Great Keyboards
- (tags: technology WANT teddy-bears )
- The information war is real, and we’re losing it
- (tags: media war facts news social-media )
- Crayola is ditching dandelion yellow from its range and replacing it with a new one
- (tags: colours art sadmaking )
- Meanwhile, at the end of infinity
- (tags: mathematics jokes funny comic via:andrewducker )
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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
- (tags: literature stats art mathematics writing )
- The Hidden Power of Stack Overflow
- (tags: programming code web )
- Septuagesimo Uno – A tiny park in New York City
- (tags: USA park wow )
- What is the best comment in source code that you have ever encountered?
- (tags: code funny )
- 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 24-03-2017
Mar. 24th, 2017 05:00 pm- TV show contestants spend year in wilderness – with no one watching
- (tags: survival reality TV Scotland funny )
- Things Women Do In Adverts That Honestly Make No Fucking Sense
- (tags: advertising women funny )
- Telecommuting Employee Names Dog 'Employee of the Quarter'
- She's a good dog, Brent
(tags: dogs business awards funny ) - Chasing the First Arcade Easter Egg
- (tags: games arcade technology history via:andrewducker )
- Trump Got To Sit In A Big Boy Truck Because Today Was A Special Day!
- (tags: funny usa politics )
- Why Apple's red iPhones are not 'Red' in China
- (tags: colour business Apple iPhone China )
- Call to give fathers allocated leave to improve uptake
- (tags: parenting maternity business fatherhood )
- Mom, Daughter Die In Separate Accidents 30 Minutes Apart
- (tags: coincidence death sadmaking USA )
- The one thing to do when visiting each country
- (tags: maps tourism )
- Shaming Men Attracted to Trans Women & Its Harmful Effects
- (tags: relationships trans )
- Thunderbolting Your Video Card
- (tags: technology gaming wow )
- The rise of addictive technology
- (tags: technology addiction )
- If you want to avoid kids believing in stereotypes avoid generalizing
- (tags: stereotypes children via:andrewducker )
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Interesting Links for 21-03-2017
Mar. 21st, 2017 05:00 pm- xkcd: Vomiting Emoji
- (tags: comic emoji xkcd )
- A Stunning Video of Mars That Took Three Months to Stitch Together (by hand!)
- (tags: space video travel Mars )
- "Sorry for the Delayed Response"
- (tags: email apology funny via:andrewducker )
- How I Became a Better Programmer
- (tags: learning programming )
- US TV host Tomi Lahren 'suspended over pro-choice comments'
- (tags: abortion USA politics women reproduction )
- Inside the Hunt for Russia's Most Notorious Hacker
- (tags: Russia security hacking crime )
- 'Beauty and the Beast' - A Cautionary Tale About The Smart Home
- (tags: internet security Disney movies technology )
Interesting Links for 16-03-2017
Mar. 16th, 2017 05:00 pm- Maternity incidents not being reviewed
- (tags: maternity childbirth Scotland healthcare )
- Olly the rescue dog at Crufts
- (tags: dogs funny awesome )
- The new American Gods trailer looks awesome
- (tags: trailer tv myths neilgaiman via:andrewducker )
- Why This Court Decision Hinged on the Oxford Comma
- (tags: punctuation grammar English laws USA )
- Astronomers just found a star orbiting a black hole at 1 percent the speed of light
- (tags: wow astronomy physics )
- Breivik was 'already damaged by the age of two'
- (tags: psychology terrorism Norway childhood )
- After 100 years of debate, hitting absolute zero has been declared mathematically impossible
- (tags: physics science mathematics thermodynamics )
- The pyschology of the Good Samaritan
- (tags: psychology religion )
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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
- (tags: Amazon AI WANT )
- UK Hearthstone players aren't happy with price increases
- (tags: UK Brexit Hearthstone gaming )
- 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'
- (tags: TV advertising Heinz )
- ‘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 09-03-2017
Mar. 9th, 2017 05:00 pm- Amelia Earhart and Rosalind Franklin immortalised in Lego for International Women’s Day
- (tags: women Lego awesome )
- Lessons Learned About Gaming After Becoming A Parent
- This. All of this.
(tags: gaming parenting kids ) - IBM somehow crammed data into a single atom
- (tags: data IBM physics wow )
- 'Very, very pink' tap water in Alberta town
- (tags: colour water wtf )
- In Puerto Rico, Teachers’ Pension Fund Works Like a Ponzi Scheme - The New York Times
- (tags: finance teaching Puerto-Rico pensions )
- No DSS: More flat shares refuse benefit claimants than pets
- (tags: housing welfare UK pets )
- A digital clock ... in Conway's Game Of Life
- (tags: life programming time )
- Why some infinities are bigger than others
- (tags: mathematics infinity )
- Feeling authentic in a relationship comes from being able to be your best self, not your actual self
- (tags: relationships personality psychology via:andrewducker )
- Pumpktris - the Tetris Pumpkin
- (tags: Tetris coding pumpkin wow )
- Indyref2 set for after May has ballsed everything up but before she’s kicked out
- (tags: independence funny politics uk via:andrewducker )
- The woman who broke the Tetris World Record - without meaning to
- (tags: games world-record Tetris via:andrewducker )
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Interesting Links for 03-03-2017
Mar. 3rd, 2017 05:00 pm- 'Logan': All Hail Wolverine, King of the X-Men's Terrifying Future
- (tags: comics movies )
- Ideal Numbers Seek Their Lost Primes
- (tags: mathematics )
- The names of 113 women killed by men last year were read out in Parliament today
- (tags: gender feminism murder UK )
- 11 things I feel more sorry about than Cornwall losing money after Brexit
- (tags: uk europe funny sad true via:andrewducker )
- Sleepwalking is the result of a survival mechanism gone awry
- (tags: brains sleep evolution )
- 'I saved commuter who dropped her phone on tracks'
- (tags: phones OhForFucksSake trains death )
- US 'Dreamer' Daniela Vargas 'facing deportation' after speech
- (tags: immigration politics USA )
- Engineer says Uber hired firm to investigate her after she reported sexual harassment
- (tags: uber sexism law )
Interesting Links for 02-03-2017
Mar. 2nd, 2017 05:00 pm- Anarchist Monopoly is the best Monopoly
- (tags: games politics economics comic funny via:andrewducker )
- Schoolchildren in Scotland Gave Their Goldfish a Viking Funeral
- (tags: vikings death pets Orkney )
- Apparently feminism has a dress code?
- (tags: feminism OhForFucksSake )
- The struggle to be British: my life as a second-class citizen
- (tags: nationality UK refugees )
- If It Were My Home
- (tags: culture geography maps statistics )
- The Curse of the Bahia Emerald, a Giant Green Rock That Wreaks Havoc and Ruins Lives
- (tags: geology wtf Brazil via:andrewducker )
- Apparently Unreal's gaming engine can render realistic cars on film in real time
- (tags: graphics film computing cars )
Interesting Links for 01-03-2017
Mar. 1st, 2017 05:00 pm- We Have Liftoff: Lego Set Honoring Women Of NASA Will Land On A Shelf Near You
- (tags: lego women science )
- The Desk
- (tags: writing webcomic art life )
- Scientists Think They've Solved the Mystery of Devil's Kettle
- (tags: geography water USA )
- Life with half a brain
- (tags: medicine brains neurology wow )
- NASA Asks Twitter Users To Name Those Newly Discovered Planets. The Inevitable Happens.
- (tags: space names funny )
- Twitter Eggs, the End Has Finally Come for Your Awfulness
- (tags: trolling twitter algorithms internet )
Interesting Links for 21-02-2017
Feb. 21st, 2017 05:00 pm- "I Discuss Things With My Husband, But I Don't Ask For Permission"
- (tags: relationships via:andrewducker )
- The Hidden World of Texans Who Constantly Use the Wrong Emoji Flag
- (tags: USA emoji funny laws )
- The Most Beautiful Chart in the World
- (tags: data charity Africa poverty disease )
- Mass production of Carbon Fibre solved
- (tags: Australia technology wow )
- Some thoughts on Cost Disease
- (tags: economics funny )
- Fundamental Theorem of Algebra - A Visual Approach
- Wonderfully informative way of visualising complex functions in a two-dimensional manner
(tags: mathematics colour visualisation )
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Interesting Links for 20-02-2017
Feb. 20th, 2017 05:00 pm- This is about one-third of a semester's worth of university-level fractal mathematics
- (tags: mathematics video )
- The world’s first colour-change hair
- (tags: chemistry hair colour )
- Decision Paralysis
- xkcd is occasionally almost painfully familiar
(tags: xkcd decisions funny webcomic ) - Her Story (season one)
- (tags: lgbt gender feminism video trans )
- "I ♥ NY" - eating animal hearts
- For the record, I grew up eating braised lamb hearts as a Sunday treat.
(tags: food diet ) - Millions of people fall below the UK's minimum income standard
- (tags: data money poverty UK )
- The Programming Interview from Hell
- (tags: interview jobs work via:andrewducker )
Interesting Links for 16-02-2017
Feb. 16th, 2017 05:00 pm- The Genderbread Person
- (tags: lgbt gender visualisation )
- Depression symptoms among men when their partners are pregnant
- (tags: depression men children via:andrewducker )
- Ronald D. Moore's Philip K. Dick anthology series picked up at Amazon
- (tags: scifi Amazon wow via:andrewducker )
- Explaining the basics of Git in simple words
- (tags: git via:andrewducker )
- Arrival: Author Ted Chiang reveals how his story went from page to screen
- (tags: scifi writing short-story movies via:andrewducker )
- Nokia 3310, 'the world's most reliable phone', to be re-launched
- (tags: phones nostalgia )
- Meet Facebook, Your New Financial Regulator
- (tags: facebook advertising regulation )
- This Machine Turns Trump Tweets into Planned Parenthood Donations
- (tags: politics charity usa funny )
- Burger King Israel includes (v tame) sex toys in its very happy meal
- (tags: sex food funny )
- BrewDog offering paid 'puppy leave' for new dog owners
- (tags: dogs business Scotland )
- A 17th-Century French Couple Traded Hearts Before Being Buried
- (tags: romance romance-is-dead death awesome )
- R for Excel Users
- (tags: statistics analysis data )
- Would Harold Pick Maude on Tinder?
- (tags: Tinder romance romance-is-dead algorithms movies )
- Psychologists Think They Found the Purpose of Depression
- (tags: psychology depression )
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