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Interesting Links for 04-04-2017
Apr. 4th, 2017 07:22 pm- Life in Life
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- 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 03-04-2017
Apr. 3rd, 2017 06:00 pm- Is Ghost in the Shell the Nail in the Coffin of Hollywood Whitewashing?
- (tags: race movies Hollywood )
- Yellow car!
- (tags: colour cars via:andrewducker )
- Anger as tampon tax is used to help fund anti-abortion group
- (tags: menstruation abortion charity OhForFucksSake via:andrewducker )
- Mega-Tunnels Dug by South American Megafauna
- (tags: animals prehistory tunnels wtf via:andrewducker )
- The milk that lasts for months
- (tags: age food cheese science )
- For 18 years, I thought she was stealing my identity. Until I found her.
- (tags: race identity names USA crime )
- Performance Artist Stood Still For 6 Hours to Let People Do What They Wanted to Her Body
- (tags: art society behaviour sadmaking )
- A step-by-step guide to building a simple chess AI
- (tags: algorithms chess games coding AI )
- At BlackRock, Machines Are Rising Over Managers to Pick Stocks
- (tags: USA AI markets data )
- Refugees Welcome (long-form articles about Syrians in Canada)
- (tags: Syria war refugees Canada )
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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 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
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- What 770,000 Tubes of Saliva Reveal About America
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- 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
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- A linguist on Arrival's alien language.
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- 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 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
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- 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 15-03-2017
Mar. 15th, 2017 05:00 pm- 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 )
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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 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 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 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 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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