2014-12-03
Entry tags:
- aggression,
- ai,
- amazon,
- archaeology,
- barackobama,
- brains,
- censorship,
- charity,
- children,
- cooking,
- depression,
- europe,
- explosions,
- funny,
- games,
- gender,
- genetics,
- history,
- housing,
- humans,
- japan,
- java,
- language,
- languages,
- links,
- men,
- mice,
- mind,
- monarchy,
- money,
- names,
- nanotech,
- netflix,
- pizza,
- police,
- porn,
- poverty,
- programming,
- publishing,
- robots,
- school,
- science,
- solarpower,
- technology,
- testing,
- thefuture,
- thehobbit,
- touch,
- trains,
- transparentsociety,
- transport,
- type-systems,
- uk,
- ultrasound,
- viafanf,
- viamybrotherhugh,
- video,
- vitamind
Interesting Links for 03-12-2014
- 12 board games to make you a better person
- When is an identifier not an identifier? (Attack of the Mongolian Vowel Separator) (largely for the headline)
- So, why are train fares so much higher in the UK than the rest of Europe?
- GiveDirectly - Send money to the extreme poor (now with more transparency and evidence)
- The warnings Netflix should give you (Julie needs the one about scary movies)
- 23andMe's genetic testing service hits the UK. (I got mine last year, very happy with it)
- Boys use malicious rumors, social exclusion and rejection far more than girls do
- Nature makes all articles free to view
- Jackie Chan Blu-ray disc boosts solar panel efficiency by a massive 22%
- Why you should use Java for everything
- UK train fares & European train fares compared (UK cheaper for everything other than immediate peak travel)
- Amazon Reveals the Robots at the Heart of Its Epic Cyber Monday Operation
- A video of Amazon's robots in action
- Obama announces funding for 50,000 police body cameras
- New British porn censorship is nothing to do with safety, and everything to do with people going "Ewwww"
- Some of you may appreciate the shortest version of The Hobbit
- DNA analysis on Richard III's remains raises questions over royal succession
- UK Government finally realises that it has to actually build some houses itself
- Does rampant AI threaten humanity?
- 25 Perfectly Awful Wedding Name Combinations
- Pizza Hut creates new mind-reading menu
- Archaeologists find vast medieval palace buried under prehistoric fortress at Old Sarum
- Creating touchable 3D shapes using ultrasound
- Vitamin D reduces lung disease flare-ups by over 40 percent
- Vitamin D deficiency linked to depression
- To Make Mice Smarter, Add A Few Human Brain Cells
- The proper way to cook shrimp (everything is better with explosions)
A meme that's too much fun not to share
Open Google Image Search (or alternate image search of your choice).
Search for your name and "meme" (e.g. "andy meme").
Post the results.
Here are mine, to get you started:
(Many thanks to Morag over on FB for this one.)
Search for your name and "meme" (e.g. "andy meme").
Post the results.
Here are mine, to get you started:
(Many thanks to Morag over on FB for this one.)