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Interesting Links for 09-08-2017
Aug. 9th, 2017 06:00 pm- Theorycrafting Hearthstone's latest expansion
- Looking forward to this set so much
(tags: Hearthstone gaming )
Interesting Links for 04-04-2017
Apr. 4th, 2017 07:22 pm- Life in Life
- (tags: mathematics wow programming )
- The 'Daddy-Proof' onesie is not good for anyone - and it's not alone
- (tags: fatherhood children parenting wtf )
- Returning a desk drawer haiku to its owner
- (tags: art poetry music wow )
- People Are Paying to Work From Bars and Restaurants
- (tags: work business restaurants )
- Will ?polluting? web history actually work?
- (tags: privacy internet USA )
- Is It Snappy? (App to measure latency using an iPhone camera)
- (tags: photography iPhone apps )
- Play as a mortician in this death-positive indie game
- (tags: death games gaming WANT )
- Ordnance Survey maps - now in 3D
- Ooh - shiney!
(tags: maps 3D via:andrewducker ) - Climate Opinion Maps (USA)
- (tags: climate-change maps USA )
- Nivea removes 'white is purity' deodorant advert branded 'racist'
- Oops
(tags: racism advertising marketing ) - Uber is using psychological tricks on its drivers
- Fun little visualisation on this!
(tags: psychology uber technology visualisation ) - Homes daubed with latin graffiti
- At least it's not "Romanes eunt domus"...
(tags: latin graffiti UK ) - The Making of the Medieval-inspired 3D printed women?s Sovereign Armor
- (tags: history armour technology cosplay )
- Piers Anthony's Xanth novels in development for film and TV
- (tags: tv fantasy via:andrewducker )
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Interesting Links for 28-03-2017
Mar. 28th, 2017 06:00 pm- The Hass Avocado Mother Tree
- Another genetically-identical crop, you say...?
(tags: food biology agriculture business ) - Massive Gold Coin Worth Millions Stolen From German Museum
- (tags: coins crime gold )
- New York's Fearless Girl statue to stay on till March 2018
- It should stay permanently, I say
(tags: USA business art gender-inequality feminism ) - US parents sue to call baby girl Allah
- (tags: names USA children law )
- McDonald's worker, 94, says she will never leave
- (tags: age work )
- Every Joke Falls in One of 11 Categories
- (tags: humour writing )
- What 770,000 Tubes of Saliva Reveal About America
- (tags: DNA data visualisation genetics )
- Pi and the Golden Ratio
- (tags: mathematics wow )
- The New Justice League Trailer Packs In Everything Wrong with DC’s Dark Movie Universe
- Visual consistency is important in movies, but there’s a chance if you watch the Justice League trailer wearing sunglasses you might not actually see anything
(tags: movies DC comics OhForFucksSake ) - A (FREE!) sci-fi anthology collects stories from up-and-coming authors
- (tags: scifi writing stories short-story )
- A linguist on Arrival's alien language.
- (tags: language movies )
- How to Extract Data from Wikipedia and Wikidata
- (tags: data wikipedia )
- The 'Jumanji' Sequel Will Not Include A Magical Board Game
- (tags: wtf movies gaming boardgaming videogames )
- Daylight Savings Time hurts my head
- (tags: riddles time childbirth )
- Bookshop turns classics into clickbait to get people reading
- The idea has, naturally, been called "litbait".
(tags: reading literature OhForFucksSake clickbait )
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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 20-03-2017
Mar. 20th, 2017 05:00 pm- Science Reveals How the Tardigrade Survives Such Extreme Conditions
- (tags: science animals evolution survival biology )
- Why Chess Fans Hate the Movies
- (tags: chess movies TV film )
- The Fixers Who Buried Old Hollywood's Biggest Scandals
- (tags: Hollywood history )
- TreeMaker - software for making origami
- (tags: origami software )
- The story of Railroad Tycoon
- (tags: games history gaming trains )
- 'Ugly': A Memoir Of Childhood, Deformity And Learning To Love A Distinctive Face
- (tags: health disability books childhood )
- They Used To Last 50 Years
- (tags: hardware shopping economics obsolescence )
- The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)
- From 2003. Still relevant.
(tags: programming code languages )
Interesting Links for 17-03-2017
Mar. 17th, 2017 05:00 pm- Humans Made the Banana Perfect—But Soon, It’ll Be Gone
- (tags: food science extinction biology )
- Fate of Monarch of the Glen painting to be decided
- (tags: art Scotland )
- Penrose tiles for maps
- (tags: wow mathematics maps coding )
- Programs that have saved me 100+ hours by automating repetitive tasks
- (tags: coding productivity )
- If plastic replaces cash, much that is good will be lost
- (tags: economics money data surveillance )
- 'London Bridge is down': the secret plan for the days after the Queen’s death
- (tags: death royalty UK politics )
- Escape to another world
- (tags: economics games gaming )
- The Problem With Facts
- (tags: facts psychology politics media via:andrewducker )
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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 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 07-02-2017
Feb. 7th, 2017 05:00 pm- Top-Ranked Chess Grandmaster Throws Game In Protest After Just Five Moves
- (tags: chess sexism )
- Why we'll never see Deep Space Nine Or Voyager on Blu-ray
- (tags: Star-Trek TV OhForFucksSake via:andrewducker )
- British people answer: "What are some legit "Very British problems"?
- (tags: uk culture via:andrewducker )
- Kylie vs Kylie
- (tags: US Australia legal branding )
- Use talk not tech to tame your children's online habits
- (tags: parenting tech children security safety )
- How Parents Can Teach Kids Empathy And Kindness | Fatherly
- (tags: parenting children kindness )
- Donald Trump Believes Barack Obama Likes Him
- (tags: wow funny politics USA )
- Wolfenstein Parody Thoughtfully Examines The Ethics Of Violence Against Nazis
- (tags: nazis gaming satire funny war )
- How to raise kinder, less entitled kids (according to science)
- (tags: parenting kindness children )
- Sweet short film about a couple is actually a hearing test in disguise
- (tags: hearing health relationships video )
- One Woman’s Brilliant “Fuck You” to Wikipedia Trolls
- (tags: trolling wikipedia abuse sexism )
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Interesting Links for 20-01-2017
Jan. 20th, 2017 05:00 pm- Popular photo app Meitu is sending your identifying data to their servers
- (tags: privacy apps data via:andrewducker )
- Larsen ice crack continues to open up
- (tags: global-warming Antarctica )
- Bacteria Apparently Send eVites to Each Other Throughout the Body
- (tags: bacteria wow communication )
- Who is Anna-Senpai, the Mirai Worm Author?
- (tags: crime security DDOS internet Minecraft gaming hacking )
- Getting the best out of A/B testing
- (tags: statistics web testing )
- I Had One Night to Invent Interstellar Travel
- (tags: science space movies scifi )
- How Do I Declare A Function Pointer in C?
- (tags: programming funny coding )
- We Can’t Let People Work From Home Because ...
- (tags: business work )
- Windows 10 Now Has Built-In Adds Targeting FireFox
- (tags: computing wtf )
- IAmA trans woman who has medically transitioned, ask me your invasive questions!
- (BBC News picked this up, but didn't link to the original AMA)
(tags: Reddit trans interview AMA ) - Clinical network established in Scotland for perinatal mental health
- (tags: Scotland mental-health )
- New £5 Notes Are Riddled With Bacteria - But It's The Good Kind
- "Despite the word "SPECIMEN" across the photo ... there's no poo on our polymer pounds."
(tags: money funny science bacteria )
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Interesting Links for 17-01-2017
Jan. 17th, 2017 05:00 pm- Link Between Profanity and Honesty
- (tags: language psychology )
- Count von Count and the lack of foreign voices on children's TV
- (tags: accents children immigration TV )
- First Class Racism
- (tags: racism UK trains )
- Video Games Aren't Allowed To Use The "Red Cross" Symbol For Health
- (tags: copyright gaming laws )
- Trump's cabinet pick invested in company, then introduced a bill to help it
- (tags: law markets USA politics )
- Performance Reviews - Waste of time and tears?
- (tags: work review millenials emotions )
- Apple increases App Store prices by 25%
- (tags: apple uk money via:andrewducker )
Interesting Links for 05-01-2017
Jan. 5th, 2017 05:00 pm- Death & Video Games: Leaving behind game saves
- (tags: death gaming )
- L.P.D.: Libertarian Police Department
- (tags: satire politics economics )
- China’s 'Lucky Knot' Bridge Has No Beginning and No End
- (tags: china bridge design via:andrewducker )
- What the hell is chicken salt?
- Can I have some please?
(tags: WANT food Australia ) - Razer's insane laptop
- Seriously?? THREE screens??!
(tags: wow technology ) - Transitional Objects
- (tags: parenting children psychology )
- Therapy wars: the revenge of Freud
- (tags: psychology )
- Is sugar the world’s most popular drug?
- (tags: sugar diet drugs )
Interesting Links for 12-12-2016
Dec. 12th, 2016 05:00 pm- Scone or scone?
- (tags: UK map language )
- Best Buy Employees Surprise Teen Who Visited Store Every Day To Play Smash Bros.
- (tags: awesome Nintendo USA feelgood )
- OneShot Is A Game Where The Main Character Knows Who You Are
- (tags: gaming funny )
- Everybody Poops
- (tags: poop gaming wtf )
- History of the human population
- (tags: history prehistory map data visualisation )
- This is what happens when Donald Trump attacks a private citizen on Twitter
- (tags: twitter USA politics ffs )
- Guidelines to help couples manage conflict
- (tags: psychology conflict-management )
- The cult of compulsory happiness is ruining our workplaces
- (tags: management happiness work )
Interesting Links for 01-12-2016
Dec. 1st, 2016 05:00 pm- U.S. 'Megaregions'
- (tags: data maps visualisation USA )
- 92% of millennials do not trust financial institutions
- (tags: millenials finance social-media )
- Learning to Read x86 Assembly Language
- (tags: programming coding )
- What controversial advice have people given to their children?
- (tags: parenting kids advice )
- World GDP growth hasn't slowed - it's just not in Europe/US anymore.
- (tags: economics globalization via:andrewducker )
- How Stable Are Democracies?
- (tags: politics )
- What Gamergate should have taught us about the 'alt-right'
- (tags: politics gaming society )
- How to use a selfie stick
- (tags: webcomic funny )
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Interesting Links for 25-11-2016
Nov. 25th, 2016 05:00 pm- The Funniest Steam Award Nominations
- Uh-oh. You can have custom awards
(tags: gaming awards internet funny ) - Infidelity, Open relationships and Polyamory
- (tags: relationships polyamory psychology society marriage )
- Homeless village to be built in Edinburgh
- (tags: homelessness edinburgh scotland uk via:andrewducker )
- Why young children are terrible at hiding
- (tags: children psychology via:andrewducker )
- Why every office should scrap its clean desk policy
- (tags: cleanliness office creativity work via:andrewducker )
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Interesting Links for 21-11-2016
Nov. 21st, 2016 05:00 pm- How Anne Diamond helped save thousands of babies
- (tags: babies cot-death UK )
- Why it’s hard to talk and make eye contact at the same time
- (tags: conversation eyes psychology via:andrewducker )
- Trump gets climate change briefing from military leaders
- (tags: USA climate-change military )
- PC Strategy Game Turned Into A Video Player
- (tags: gaming programming wow )
- How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk
- (tags: culture language USA )
- Philosopher predicts the 2016 US election... in 1998
- (tags: politics philosophy wow )
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Interesting Links for 10-11-2016
Nov. 10th, 2016 05:00 pm- Seth Meyers Moved To Tears While Processing Election Results
- (tags: politics TV USA )
- Facebook failed America this year
- And not just America
(tags: social-media politics ) - How Trump redrew the electoral map, from sea to shining sea -
- (tags: politics maps USA data visualisation )
- Incredible Overwatch Cosplay vs Bad Pick-Up Lines
- (tags: cosplay Overwatch funny )
- Women effectively working for free until the end of 2016 due to gender pay gap
- (tags: equal-rights pay-gap feminism economics )
- 10 Comics That Can Help You Understand Mental Illness
- (tags: anxiety depression mental-health webcomic comics )
- Twelve Days to a Mentally Healthy Christmas
- Best to start preparing now I suppose!
(tags: mental-health xmas ) - America Has Never Been So Ripe for Tyranny
- Surprising insight from 6 months ago
(tags: politics USA Plato ) - Trump's First 100 Days: Here Is What The President-Elect Wants To Do
- (tags: politics usa OhForFucksSake via:andrewducker )
- Westworld is a cautionary tale about photorealism and video game murder
- (tags: games gaming Westworld TV psychology )
- The Last Guardian is almost here, after nearly a decade
- (tags: gaming wow technology )
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Interesting Links for 08-11-2016
Nov. 8th, 2016 05:00 pm- Video Games Are Boring
- (tags: games gaming feminism society )
- Sam Wang Is This Year's Unsung Election Data Superhero
- (tags: politics voting statistics data via:andrewducker )
- Is it right to train babies to sleep?
- (tags: babies parenting sleep )
- America has never had so much TV, and even Hollywood is overwhelmed
- (tags: tv streaming netflix via:andrewducker )
- GitHub - avatsaev/touchbar_nyancat: Stupid nyancat animation on your +$2k MacBook Pro's Touchbar
- (tags: memes funny Apple )
- It’s Christmas time: get ready to stock up on mulled spice loo roll
- Vegan-appropriate bleach? Why of course!
(tags: xmas OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 31-10-2016
Oct. 31st, 2016 03:00 pm- Seattle: Highest Minimum Wage, Lowest Unemployment Rate
- (tags: usa economics via:andrewducker minimum-wage )
- A fascinating review of PS1 game Parasite Eve
- (tags: gaming review games Japan horror )
- Descendants of Jewish refugees seek German citizenship after Brexit vote
- (tags: politics history Germany UK wow )
- Amazon vs Netflix - period drama is the next battlefield
- (tags: TV Netflix Amazon )
- Costumes for wheelchairs at Halloween
- (tags: disability wheelchairs cosplay costumes awesome )
