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Interesting Links for 24-08-2017
Aug. 24th, 2017 06:00 pm- Hearthstone meets Disney?
- (tags: Hearthstone video music )
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 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 20-02-2017
Feb. 20th, 2017 05:00 pm- 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 )
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 06-01-2017
Jan. 6th, 2017 05:00 pm- Mad Feet (Mad Max/Happy Feet Mashup)
- (tags: trailer funny video )
- DNA Genealogy
- (tags: genes history )
- WE CAN GET THEM FOR YOU WHOLESALE
- (tags: short-story scifi )
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 07-11-2016
Nov. 7th, 2016 05:00 pm- John Lewis Xmas Advert
- ...sorta
(tags: video xmas ) - A Transit Strike In Philly Could Lower Turnout, Especially Among Black And Poor Voters
- (tags: politics transport society USA )
- Lawsuit claims former fertility doctor used his own sperm
- (tags: fertility medicine crime Canada )
- Because every country Is the best at something
- (tags: data maps visualisation )
- Punk Vs. Prog: A History
- (tags: music history punk progressive )
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 )
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 17-10-2016
Oct. 17th, 2016 04:00 pm- A Republican intellectual explains why the Republican Party is going to die
- (tags: republicans usa politics history via:andrewducker )
- Ironic World Standards Day
- (tags: world standards usa funny via:andrewducker )
- The History Of Europe - Every Year
- (tags: history Europe maps video )
- Ranking the Most (and Least) Vegetarian-Friendly US Cities
- (tags: vegetarianism veganism USA stats data )
- Baby boomers have already taken all the houses, now they're coming for our brunch
- (tags: funny brunch housing baby-boomers millenials )
- You can blame austerity for Brexit
- (tags: austerity uk economics europe via:andrewducker )
- How to deal with braggarts
- (tags: psychology bragging )
- Physicists Create World’s First Time Crystal
- (tags: physics science time )
- Gap in Research Funding Holds Back Potential Cure for All Viruses
- (tags: medicine science research crowdfunding viruses )
- The maths (and linguistics) of the Sleeping Beauty puzzle
- (tags: puzzles mathematics philosophy language )
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Interesting Links for 12-09-2016
Sep. 12th, 2016 04:00 pm- Clancy Brown's greatest villains
- (tags: movies villains )
- 'Die Hard' scene homemade shot-for-shot
- (tags: movies awesome yippeekiyay )
- The Accidental Twitter Poet
- (tags: twitter poetry social-media )
- Losing followers hurts
- (tags: twitter religion funny webcomic )
- Why a papercut hurts so much
- (tags: biology pain injury )
- The organs that we are reluctant to donate
- My father's corneas were the only part of him undamaged enough from a life of hard living to donate. Every little bit helps.
(tags: medicine physiology organ-donation ) - Raising a well-adjusted, gifted child
- (tags: children parenting genius education )
- Watching Evolution: right in front of your eyes
- (tags: biology evolution video wow )
- Man buys woman a drink, texts her awkward request weeks later
- (tags: funny twitter drink romance-is-dead )
- This Tube station now has pictures of cats instead of ads
- (tags: advertising cats London transport )
- Searching for Aki
- (tags: UK Liverpool bodybuilding psychiatry )
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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 29-08-2016
Aug. 29th, 2016 04:00 pm- This same whooping sound is in every popular song, from Katy Perry to Chris Brown
- (tags: music )
- How a Self-Published Writer of Gay Erotica Beat Sci-Fi’s Sad Puppies at their Own Game
- (tags: scifi disability identity autism lgbt porn via:andrewducker )
- Rose of Tralee becomes latest battleground in abortion debate
- (tags: Ireland abortion laws )
- Here’s what Thor was doing during Captain America: Civil War
- (tags: funny video superheroes Australia )
- Coleslaw - the Van Halen rider demand of the restaurant world
- (tags: food restaurants )
- Jennifer Lawrence and Melissa McCarthy make big money – but men still make more
- (tags: movies pay-gap )
- Fantastic marriage proposal, time-capsule style
- (tags: time-capsule marriage proposal )
- The shortcomings of laymen discussing 'nerdy' topics
- (tags: geekery boardgaming webcomic quotes )
- The Moron’s Case For Hillary Clinton…because some of you really are that stupid.
- (tags: politics USA via:BartCalendar )
- Casual Dinosaur Enthusiasts Unite!
- (tags: dinosaurs emoji )
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