Interesting Links for 05-04-2017
Apr. 5th, 2017 06:00 pm- 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 )
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 )
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
- (tags: humour writing )
- What 770,000 Tubes of Saliva Reveal About America
- (tags: DNA data visualisation genetics )
- 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
- (tags: scifi writing stories short-story )
- A linguist on Arrival's alien language.
- (tags: language movies )
- 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 )
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
- (tags: USA park wow )
- 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 )
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 )
Interesting Links for 23-03-2017
Mar. 23rd, 2017 05:00 pm- Paris Syndrome
- (tags: tourism Paris movies )
- Catching a real ball with virtual reality
- (tags: Disney virtual-reality VR wow )
- For insect detectives, the trickiest cases involve the bugs that aren't there
- (tags: insects medicine mental-health )
- Silently Corrupting an Eclipse Workspace: The Ultimate Prank
- (tags: computers Microsoft wtf practical-joke )
Interesting Links for 17-03-2017
Mar. 17th, 2017 05:00 pm- Humans Made the Banana Perfect—But Soon, It’ll Be Gone
- (tags: food science extinction biology )
- Fate of Monarch of the Glen painting to be decided
- (tags: art Scotland )
- Penrose tiles for maps
- (tags: wow mathematics maps coding )
- Programs that have saved me 100+ hours by automating repetitive tasks
- (tags: coding productivity )
- If plastic replaces cash, much that is good will be lost
- (tags: economics money data surveillance )
- 'London Bridge is down': the secret plan for the days after the Queen’s death
- (tags: death royalty UK politics )
- Escape to another world
- (tags: economics games gaming )
- The Problem With Facts
- (tags: facts psychology politics media via:andrewducker )
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 )
Interesting Links for 14-03-2017
Mar. 14th, 2017 05:00 pm- 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 )
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 )
Interesting Links for 09-03-2017
Mar. 9th, 2017 05:00 pm- 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 )
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 )
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 27-02-2017
Feb. 27th, 2017 05:00 pm- Our Universe is too vast for even the most imaginative sci-fi
- (tags: scifi universe )
- Oscars shocker: 'La La Land' announced as Best Picture, but 'Moonlight' wins
- (tags: awards films OhForFucksSake )
- Based on a *True* True Story?
- (tags: data films visualisation truth )
- Math Proof Could Help Us Describe the Earth’s Interior Like Never Before
- (tags: mathematics geology wow )
- FiveThirtyEight's predictions of the Oscars
- The methodology is fascinating here
(tags: statistics films awards ) - The red carpet isn't actually red, and other secrets
- (tags: colour business awards )
- Tired of putting things off?
- (tags: death procrastination time psychology )
Interesting Links for 23-02-2017
Feb. 23rd, 2017 05:00 pm- 35-Year-Old Downloads The Sims to Play Out Home Ownership Fantasy
- (tags: housing games fantasy via:andrewducker )
- The best anagrams in the English language
- (tags: coding analysis language via:andrewducker )
- A lovely Calvin and Hobbes sketch - in 3D
- (tags: comics wow art Calvin-and-Hobbes via:andrewducker )
- The Example of Easter Island Shows Why Humanity Will Be Extinct Within 100 Years
- Probably. Maybe.
(tags: extinction global-warming economics ecology ) - The Slow Confiscation of Everything
- “The end is nigh. Coffee helps.”
(tags: apocalypse climate ) - The Myers diff algorithm
- (tags: algorithms programming )
- Single women hide their ambtion if others can see them.
- (tags: feminism women jobs society via:andrewducker )
- Amazon Argues Alexa Speech Protected By First Amendment In Murder Trial Fight
- (tags: Amazon laws free-speech murder )
- Lexical Distance Among the Languages of Europe
- (tags: europe language visualisation via:andrewducker )
- The Man Who Wants to Rescue Infinity
- (tags: mathematics )
- Perspective - Now anyone can deploy Google's anti-troll API
- (tags: coding AI trolling Google )
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 )
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 )