2012-07-31
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Interesting Links for 31-07-2012
- Tesco's web security is, frankly, unforgivable.
- Parenting has less of an effect on children's character than you might think.
- Characterizing people as non-linear, first-order components in software development
- How I almost lost my boyfriend to the Work Capability Assessment
I've seen this kind of thing far too many times.
- OH MY GOD. I JUST WITNESSED THE SINGLE GREATEST MOMENT IN HUMAN HISTORY.
- Peter Jackson Confirms Third Hobbit Film. *braingasm*
- Removing mobility allowance from disabled people will cost £324million in lost wages from people who can no longer work.
- Brain development delayed in people with ADHD
- Oxytocin makes people better at reading facial expressions (if they have problems with it normally)
- Why rape should not be banished from fiction
- How con-runner politics work (and why they can take a while)
- Hotel replaces Bibles with 'Fifty Shades of Grey' in rooms.
- Uruguay Considers Legalizing Marijuana to Stop Traffickers
- Beach volleyball abandoned after audience hears about the internet
- a black momma with a white baby writes an open letter to louis c.k.
- On the difference between neoliberalism and libertarianism
- When God wants you to play dress-up
- Who were the nine Olympic flagbearers?
- Why does Japan still use the fax so much?
This is what happens when you get retweeted by Graham Linehan
Details here.
Other than that, my non-work day has mostly involved playing Dungeon Defenders with Julie. It's great fun as a two-player co-op cross between a first-person RPG and a Tower Defense game. I'm not sure it would be as much fun single player though.