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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 )

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 )

Invader Zim returning to Nickelodeon: (tags: DOOM TV cartoons )
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: (tags: Brazil hacking finance banking wow )

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 )

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 )

Exporting Irish Pubs across the globe: (tags: architecture business culture Ireland )
Kanth: A 400-Year Program of Modernist Thinking is Exploding: (tags: society philosophy anthropology )
The traffic light that never changes from red: (tags: regulation traffic Germany wtf )
Learn to count to Pi with the Count von Count: (tags: mathematics video wtf numbers )
Scotland isn't different, it's Britain that's bizarre: (tags: europe scotland society culture politics )
A Stump Was Turned Into A Real-Life Giving Tree: No, you're crying
(tags: books stories trees USA )
David Bowie stamps competition: (tags: stamps Royal-Mail UK music )
Things People Don’t Understand About Poverty: It hurts to read this. Some of this is a little close to home.
(tags: poverty USA )
Edinburgh filming schedule for new Avengers film revealed: (tags: Edinburgh marvel movies via:andrewducker )
Into the woods: how one man survived alone in the wilderness for 27 years: (tags: survival wilderness USA )

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 )

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 )

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 )

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 )

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 )

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 )

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 )

Carrie Fisher's last Harrison Ford story isn't romantic, it's tragic: (tags: relationships Star-Wars sadmaking via:andrewducker )
Millennials aren’t coddled—they just reject abuse as a management tactic: (tags: abuse management work via:andrewducker )
The Alluring Statuette Dividing Dublin: (tags: Ireland art meme )
Local voting figures shed new light on EU referendum: (tags: EU UK politics statistics )
Humans have a mating season?: (tags: reproduction stats )
Why Our Super Bowl Ad Failed: (tags: genius wow advertising sport )
Figuring out the best place to live in Helsinki: (tags: Finland travel commuting data maps )
The High Cost of a Home Is Turning American Millennials Into the New Serfs: (tags: millenials housing work business )
The reasons why, once we start worrying, some of us just can’t stop: Ah, crap. This is quite recognisable.
(tags: anxiety stress psychology via:andrewducker )
People are quitting gig jobs in the sharing economy: (tags: economics jobs work uber )
Russians Engineer a Brilliant Slot Machine Cheat—And Casinos Have No Fix: (tags: maths computers gambling via:andrewducker )
New ammonia production process generates electricity instead of consuming it: (tags: chemistry agriculture wow )

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