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Interesting Links for 30-03-2017
Mar. 30th, 2017 06:00 pm- Wanna Protect Your Online Privacy? Open a Tab and Make Some Noise
- (tags: internet privacy security )
- Origami intersections that are visible from space
- (tags: origami space art )
- Conservative Club fined for being (small-c) conservative?
- (tags: women gender-inequality Conservatives )
- Guy Who Got a C on Constitutional-Amendment Paper GETS CONSTITUTION AMENDED
- (tags: history law USA )
- LEGO UK Hiring Product Designers To Build Models Professionally
- (tags: lego WANT work play jobs UK )
- How I Let Disney Track My Every Move
- "...the most magical surveillance state on Earth..."
(tags: Disney privacy technology ) - Best High School Reunion Ever: The Buffy Cast 20 Years Later
- (tags: tv nostalgia awesome )
- You can’t buy Congress’ web history - it doesn't work like that
- (tags: internet politics privacy security )
- The Four Types Of Scarlett Johansson Movies
- (tags: movies statistics visualisation via:andrewducker )
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- via:andrewducker,
- visualisation,
- want,
- women,
- work
Interesting Links for 22-03-2017
Mar. 22nd, 2017 05:00 pm- LGBT community anger over YouTube restrictions which make their videos invisible
- (tags: LGBT youtube censorship )
- Scottish Green's amendment for this week's crucial Holyrood debate and vote on a fresh Scottish independence referendum
- (tags: Scotland independence referendum EU politics UK )
- Cadbury's Forced To Fight Furious Backlash Against 'Halal' And 'Non-Christian' Easter Eggs
- (tags: EpicStupidity UK religion food racism )
- What should password managers not do? Leak your passwords? What a great idea, LastPass
- (tags: OhForFucksSake security passwords )
- Colbie Caillat - Try
- (tags: music video feminism )
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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 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 06-03-2017
Mar. 6th, 2017 05:00 pm- The difference between being part of the UK and part of the EU
- (tags: europe uk scotland independence via:andrewducker )
- Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight, explained with 60+ studies
- (tags: exercise weight via:andrewducker )
- Why you should get an Economics PhD (and save lives)
- (tags: Education life government regulation via:andrewducker )
- Arithmetic vs Reality: The Sawdust Principle
- (tags: mathematics reality idiocy via:andrewducker )
- Relevant XKCD
- There is *always* an xkcd for that.
(tags: xkcd comic recursion via:andrewducker ) - Copenhagen restaurant turns diners into donors
- (tags: restaurants organ-donation wow food )
- Zuckerberg World President
- (tags: facebook globalization data )
- 1.37bn records from somewhere to leak on Monday
- (tags: data security internet )
- Mathematics for Computer Science
- Want to come back to read this properly. Might help me put my mathematical background into CS use better
(tags: computers mathematics science ) - Decline of the Dad Job
- (tags: work gender via:andrewducker )
- Data Visualization Gifs
- (tags: animation data visualisation )
- Why the most successful students have no passion for school
- (tags: education motivation )
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- work,
- wow,
- xkcd
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 26-01-2017
Jan. 26th, 2017 05:00 pm- Oscar Nomination Puts Lin-Manuel Miranda One Step Closer to an EGOT
- (tags: awards entertainment )
- Knitting Store Owner Tells Women's March Supporters To Buy Their Yarn Elsewhere
- (tags: knitting politics USA )
- The "Napster Moment" for scholarly research?
- (tags: internet research open-source legal )
- How to Securely Send Snail Mail the CIA Way
- (tags: security snail-mail )
- The 'dark side' of knitting
- (tags: addiction knitting psychology )
- Functional programming = "You deal with it"
- (tags: xkcd webcomic comics programming funny )
- Has Trump been Impeached yet?
- (tags: funny politics USA )
- Why Fathers Get Postpartum Depression And How To Fight It
- (tags: fatherhood mental-health depression )
- Woman to marry homeless man she found rifling through bin 40 years ago
- (tags: homelessness mental-health marriage )
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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 02-12-2016
Dec. 2nd, 2016 05:00 pm- Fatal flaws in ten pacemakers make for Denial of Life attacks
- (tags: security hacking medicine )
- Uber now tracks passengers' locations even after they're dropped off
- (tags: privacy transport travel Uber )
- Maps of USA infrastructure
- (tags: maps USA data visualisation )
- Baby name trends of 2016
- (tags: babies names data )
- The lonesome king (aka Group Russian Roulette)
- (tags: mathematics puzzles )
- Donald Trump’s Ghostwriter
- (tags: politics USA writing )
- Meet the man who could own Aviva France
- One of my favourite financial stories
(tags: finance legal France )
Interesting Links for 29-11-2016
Nov. 29th, 2016 05:00 pm- Inside tiny tubes, water turns solid when it should be boiling
- (tags: research science wow )
- Monopoly - The movie
- Oh gods...
(tags: movies games OhForFucksSake ) - Mental Health Education At School
- (tags: school mental-health UK )
- GitHub for Bucket - the channel bot for #xkcd
- (tags: xkcd coding funny )
- Nuclear batteries - using diamonds
- (tags: batteries research science wow )
- We Asked 8,500 Internet Commenters Why They Do What They Do
- (tags: comments internet discussion via:andrewducker )
- Where are the Voyagers
- (tags: science space )
- Who is the Genius Behind Merriam-Webster’s Social Media?
- (tags: language social-media funny )
- When an individual has a conversation with Theresa May about Brexit
- (tags: europe uk politics )
- What are the most popular PINs? (And are you using one?)
- (tags: security passwords numbers via:andrewducker )
Interesting Links for 24-10-2016
Oct. 24th, 2016 04:00 pm- Stand-up comedy routine about Spreadsheets
- (tags: geekery spreadsheets comedy funny )
- The Weird Economics Of Ikea
- (tags: design economics data IKEA )
- Most of Trump’s charts skew the data. And not always in his favor
- (tags: design data visualisation politics USA )
- I've never wanted a handheld Nintendo device before, but this appeals for some reason
- (tags: WANT Nintendo technology gaming )
- Banks poised to relocate out of UK over Brexit
- (tags: banking uk europe via:andrewducker )
- Being Single Is Now a Disability, According to the World Health Organization
- (tags: health children fertility WHO )
- Chinese firm admits its hacked DVRs, cameras were behind Friday's massive DDOS attack
- (tags: security technology China via:andrewducker )
- Secret Red Dwarf Theme Tune Lyrics Discovered After 27 Years
- (tags: comedy TV UK song easter-egg )
- The Sunday roast burger
- (tags: food wow UK Liverpool )
- When Charles Dickens, his raven, Grip, and Edgar Allan Poe met
- (tags: raven Poe Dickens literature history awesome )
- After authorities did not charge rapist, student fought back
- (tags: rape USA crime )
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- wow
Interesting Links for 19-10-2016
Oct. 19th, 2016 04:00 pm- The London borough with a '50-year waiting list' for council houses
- (tags: housing UK society ffs )
- London Is Still Paying Rent to the Queen on a Property Leased in 1211
- (tags: london history weird awesome via:andrewducker )
- Why, It's The Lusty Argonian Maid Herself
- (tags: cosplay funny Skyrim awesome )
- Why do twins live longer than the rest of us
- (tags: twins psychology society longevity )
- When Stranger Things Happen...
- (tags: awesome Australia TV video )
- When love and attention just aren't enough
- (tags: psychology children parenting )
- "My father injected me with HIV"
- (tags: HIV horrifying )
- Programming books you might want to consider reading
- (tags: programming books code )
- The Cryptopals Crypto Challenges
- (tags: cryptography programming security )
- World chess grandmaster stops by to take on hustlers in NY
- And yes, that is Liv Tyler
(tags: chess funny USA )
Interesting Links for 14-09-2016
Sep. 14th, 2016 04:00 pm- The 12 months of the first year of baby
- (tags: parenting mother funny babies )
- “Impossible” Time Crystals may actually be real
- (tags: physics science wow scifi )
- Huge 9-year-old rugby player steamrolling through children is your childhood nightmare
- (tags: rugby sports children wow )
- Time as seen through an LED
- A 'toy universe' puzzle
(tags: universe time physics mathematics ) - Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet
- (tags: internet security scary via:andrewducker )
Interesting Links for 30-08-2016
Aug. 30th, 2016 04:00 pm- Lightning strike kills 323 reindeer
- (tags: norway weather electricity video )
- New Yorkers will pay $56 a month to trim a minute off their commute
- I'd like to see this done for other cities around the world
(tags: data commuting visualisation work travel ) - How one man dreamed up Tetris
- (tags: gaming code programming history Russia )
- And it's gone —The true cost of interruptions
- (tags: productivity programming )
- Shattering a mirror with a hammer at 120k fps
- (tags: wow mirror video destruction )
- Uber driver takes sleeping woman on 35-mile detour around London
- (tags: uber safety travel UK )
- Reducing runoff pollution by making spray droplets less bouncy
- (tags: research science environment agriculture )
- Indie Crossword Puzzlers
- (tags: crosswords puzzles )
- Facebook recommended that this psychiatrist’s patients friend each other
- (tags: facebook privacy via:andrewducker )
- Sorry, but your browser password manager probably isn’t enough
- (tags: technology passwords security internet )
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Interesting Links for 18-08-2016
Aug. 18th, 2016 04:00 pm- "Homesick" candles - for the US citizen who misses their home state
- (tags: candle business USA )
- What happens when the NSA hoards Zero-Days
- (tags: hacking USA security )
- How alcohol shaped our civilisation
- I want to be a beer archaeologist now
(tags: alcohol history archaeology ) - ‘Bedroom tax’ fails to free up larger homes
- (tags: UK housing society )
- The Army Games
- Like the Olympics, but with weaponry
(tags: wow weapons armed-forces games )
