Interesting Links for 22-01-2013

• Britain is _rubbish_ at providing cycling options.
  (tags: bicycles uk )
• Smoke-free law linked to large fall in child asthma hospital admissions
  (tags: smoking law asthma )
• The Digital Editor for The Economist answers questions on Reddit
  (tags: publishing media reddit technology )
• Germany trades more with the UK than with any other country.
  (tags: uk germany )
• The time has come for votes at 16
  (tags: voting uk politics )
• How one man escaped from a North Korean prison camp (posted before, but the original link is dead)
  (tags: NorthKorea )
• Hundreds of women in the USA denied their rights because they were pregnant
  (tags: abortion rights women usa )
• Musicians, scientists, and artists rally to save Glasgow's modern stone circle
  (tags: art glasgow astronomy science )

What different tools do to your photos

I took a photo of the view on my street this morning


The original was 1944x2592, and weighs in at just over 1MB. The version above, which Dropbox magically transfers to my laptop/desktop, I then resized to half of those dimensions, (972x1296) and 248k. It's displaying at half that size again, but you can click to show it at it's actual size.
Hitting the "Upload to Facebook" button produced a version that's 720x960, and 70k. And, unsurprisingly, very pixellated.
Uploading it to Tumblr gave a file that's 960x1280, and 190k. The auto-reposting by IFTTT to Twitter didn't change it any further. The auto-reposting to my Facebook links page again resized it to 720x960, so I assume that's what FB automatically resizes to.