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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 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 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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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
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- 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 28-02-2017
Feb. 28th, 2017 05:00 pm- Whatever happened to the Greek Gods?
- (tags: myths Greece story short-story via:andrewducker )
- Two WWII-Era Grenades Were Found in a 91-Year-Old's Refrigerator
- (tags: war food wtf )
- Where did Steve Bannon get his worldview?
- (tags: books culture politics )
- A $10 wireless Raspberry Pi is now available
- (tags: technology wow )
- Donald Trump's Call For Millions To Rally Fizzles
- Um. Oops?
(tags: politics USA ) - The Business of Being a Feminist Bookstore
- (tags: feminism books business )
- 81-year-old woman makes iPhone app after only starting to use computers at 60
- (tags: age coding Japan TED-Talks )
- How technology gets us hooked
- (tags: technology addiction )
- Japanese Phone Booth Connects The Living And The Dead
- (tags: Japan death grief earthquake )
- One doctor’s experience telling patients Trump is president
- (tags: memory medicine politics )
- The benefits of philosophy for children
- (tags: philosophy children education learning UK )
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 17-02-2017
Feb. 17th, 2017 05:00 pm- The writing system only women could write
- (tags: women writing language China )
- The Ghost In The Shell Movie Has Some Very Expensive Statues
- If you ever wanted a 1/4th sized robo-Geisha, here's your chance
(tags: movies merchandising wow anime ) - Cheater Ends Up In Match With Pro Overwatch Players, Gets Wrecked
- (tags: Overwatch cheating karma )
- Donald Trump Told Chris Christie To Eat Meatloaf
- To be fair, Frankenfurter made everyone eat Meat Loaf
(tags: wtf politics ) - Scarier Than 'Psycho': Twitter Erupts Over Trump's 'Bats**t' Press Conference
- Unsure if this is an interesting read or just worth remembering as the 'good times' when the shells are dropping all around
(tags: wtf politics USA ) - The Amazon Fire Stick Juggernaut
- (tags: Amazon data sales )
- Scientists appeal for more people to donate their brains
- (tags: brains neurology science )
- Hans Rosling – the World’s Greatest Data-Storyteller
- (tags: data visualisation )
- British queuing and 'the power of six'
- (tags: queueing UK society anthropology )
- How to Tame Quantum Weirdness
- (tags: puzzles quantum-mechanics physics )
- Researchers Tap a Sleep Switch in the Brain | Quanta Magazine
- Includes the best fragment I'll see all day: "...a colony of narcoleptic dogs at Stanford..."
(tags: sleep science neurology ) - Examining relationships between further education and financial responsibility
- (tags: education finance data stats )
- What are the Celtic Languages?
- (tags: languages Wales Scotland Ireland )
- The rise of the £300 smartphone—you want how much for a flagship?
- (tags: phones technology sales economics )
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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
- (tags: wow coding programming games )
- 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 23-01-2017
Jan. 23rd, 2017 05:00 pm- Samsung Finally Reveals Why the Galaxy Note 7 Kept Exploding
- (tags: batteries phones safety fire explosions EpicStupidity via:andrewducker )
- Humans rather than climate the primary cause of Pleistocene megafaunal extinction in Australia
- (tags: science paleaontology Australia climate-change extinction )
- Don't Have Kids
- (tags: funny technology kids parenting )
- The Positive Reframe: Why Trump’s Inauguration is Not the Beginning of an Era — but the End
- (tags: economics politics )
- You Can Change Your Personality
- (tags: personality psychology via:andrewducker )
- Yes, You Can Stop Thinking About It
- (tags: psychology )
- The dental nurse who became an alligator catcher
- (tags: wow animals USA )
- Literary Constellations
- (tags: literature data visualisation )
- ‘Barclays took my £440,000 and put me through hell’
- (tags: banking finance law )
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Interesting Links for 19-01-2017
Jan. 19th, 2017 05:00 pm- Iceland knows how to stop teen substance abuse but the rest of the world isn’t listening
- (tags: drugs mental-health iceland teenagers via:andrewducker )
- Studying at the Bahai secret university
- (tags: learning university religion )
- Why Does Time Seem to Move Faster as We Grow Older?
- (tags: time age neurology psychology memory )
- Overpopulation: material problem and psychological threat
- (tags: population psychology apocalypse science )
- Patrick Stewart will voice an animate poop emoji
- (tags: wtf movies )
- How a robot got Super Mario 64 and Portal “running” on an SNES
- (tags: hardware Nintendo speedrunning technology wow )
- It's Not Your Imagination. Every Trailer Really Does Have That Bass Drop.
- (tags: trailers movies sounds )
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Interesting Links for 09-01-2017
Jan. 9th, 2017 05:00 pm- Online cognitive behavioural therapy is no more effective than usual GP care for people with depression
- (tags: depression cbt via:andrewducker )
- Crash Cows
- (tags: science computers Russia )
- How did the greatest juggler in the world end up working in concrete?
- (tags: juggling work achievement via:andrewducker )
- Intermental - New disorders for a connected age
- (tags: mental-health emotions internet visualisation )
- MIT design one of the strongest, lightest materials known
- (tags: research chemistry science engineering )
- The not-really-abandoned Land Of Oz
- (tags: park Oz USA )
- I wore men’s clothes for a month – and it changed my life
- (tags: feminism gender society clothing via:andrewducker )
- Mapumental - mapping travel times
- (tags: data maps time travel )
- The iPhone Decade
- (tags: iPhone technology )
- Embrace the remix
- (tags: creativity music technology law )
- Be Worried About Boys, Especially Baby Boys
- (tags: psychiatry babies gender stress mental-health )
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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 24-11-2016
Nov. 24th, 2016 05:00 pm- The sparrow with four sexes
- (tags: animals biology evolution )
- Brexit will blow a £59bn hole in public finances
- (tags: UK politics Brexit economics )
- Batteries that charge in seconds?
- (tags: batteries power technology )
- Award Winning Map Shows a More Accurate World
- (tags: maps wow )
- Awww! So cute!
- Warning: Spiders
(tags: nature spiders babies ) - OK Go's Video For 'The One Moment' Is Another Mind-Blower
- (tags: music video wow )
- The war against the squirrels has begun!
- (tags: squirrel )
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 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 01-11-2016
Nov. 1st, 2016 03:00 pm- Star Trek’s Feminist Statement: Believe Women
- (tags: star-trek feminism TV )
- "I know exactly how I'll vote in next poll on independence"
- (tags: Scotland independence politics )
- 8 Sex Positive Things You Can Say To Your Kids That Have Nothing To Do With Sex
- (tags: sex kids society parenting )
- Tesla’s new solar roof tiles for homes
- (tags: WANT housing technology electricity )
- Why do so many women oppose feminism?
- (tags: feminism psychology society equal-rights )
- Why doesn’t England just leave the UK?
- (tags: uk england europe via:andrewducker )
- Nanobionic spinach plants can detect explosives
- (tags: research science technology plants wow )
- How Statistics Solved a 175-Year-Old Mystery About Alexander Hamilton
- (tags: stats computing writing literature )
- 'Shortest flight' welcomes millionth passenger
- (tags: Orkney Scotland flying transport )
- The night I stood centre stage and strangled a stranger
- (tags: art communication gender theatre )
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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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Interesting Links for 21-10-2016
Oct. 21st, 2016 04:00 pm- Software architect is an illegal job title in the UK
- (tags: law jobs language via:andrewducker )
- The Architects Registration Board will sadly not prosecute software architects
- (tags: names software architecture law via:andrewducker )
- The Donald's handwriting is now a free font - called 'Tiny Hand'
- (tags: funny font USA politics )
- Hillary Clinton’s 3 debate performances left the Trump campaign in ruins
- (tags: USA politics )
- Guy Plays Overwatch Using Bow As Controller
- (tags: Overwatch geekery technology funny )
- Razer Blade Pro Gaming Laptop: It's a Portable Supercomputer That Vapes
- (tags: computers gaming WANT technology )
- Badger Badger Badger PORTAL PORTAL
- (tags: easter-egg Portal gaming video )
- Aberfan: The mistake that cost a village its children
- (tags: Wales history children disaster )
