Interesting Links for 24-07-2015

• Making payments more convenient and efficient | Government Digital Service
  • (tags: UK government money technology )
• Half of landlords say they will make tenants pay more rent to cover Budget tax break cuts
  • I have a friend who was told yesterday that his rent is going up by 11%. Nothing he can do about it at all...
  • (tags: tax housing rental )
• How Tom Cruise Almost Cost Ian McKellen the Roles of Gandalf and Magneto
  • (tags: IanMcKellen lotr xmen movies TomCruise )
• UK to host 2016 Hunger Games
  • (tags: UK funny satire )
• Remembering the Amiga on its thirtieth birthday
  • (tags: computers history nostalgia )
• No Reverb Added: An Acoustical Experiment of a Song Recorded in 15 Different Locations
  • (tags: sound singing video )
• Psychologists reveal our "blatant dehumanisation" of minority groups
  • (tags: minorities religion race people bigotry psychology )
• Open up The Verge and you get 75kb of content - and 10MB of adverts/tracking
  • (tags: web OhForFucksSake advertising )

What you should do rather than watching Pixels...ever

1) Watch this 2-minute short from 2010 that inspired it. And is pretty cute, and apparently does more with the concept than the movie manages.

"PIXELS by Patrick JEAN (OFFICIAL BY ONEMOREPROD - HD)" (Watch on YouTube)

2) Watch this fantastic review, where a _very_ upset reviewer tears it apart in an incredibly entertaining manner.

"MovieBob Reviews: PIXELS (2015)" (Watch on YouTube)

3) Play an actual computer game. Or watch a decent movie. Or go outside for a nice walk.