Interesting Links for 07-01-2016

• GP dismissed student’s suicidal thoughts because of clean clothes
  • suicide mentalhealth UK fail
• CDs still dominate, but streaming audio is catching up
  • cd streaming music technology
• TVs - you're bored of more pixels, have more colours instead!
  • tv colour HDTV technology
• I had no idea where the song "Mah Nà Mah Nà" (as used in the Muppets) came from!
  • muppets wikipedia tv music
• As of Tuesday, only the most recent version of Internet Explorer will still be in support
  • That's 9, if you're on Vista, or 11 if you're on Windows 7,8, or 10.
  • Microsoft browser technology ie
• Virtually a reality: Oculus Rift goes on sale for $599
  • Waiting for the reviews. And to have a computer beefy enough to support it. And to have some spare money.
  • virtualreality technology
• Jedi Anchorites and Early Ireland (spoilers for TFA)
  • starwars Christianity Ireland history
• Ten Choices You Will Regret In 10 Years
  • choices advice
• The Force Awakens+Cards Against Humanity = Awesome
  • games starwars funny
• I never realised that the names of the Weasely children followed a mythical convention
  • harrypotter names
• That raccoon figured out the candyfloss on the third attempt
  • raccoon sweets animated_gif
• The Science Fiction Writer’s Hierarchy of Doubt
  • writing scifi funny
• A Father, a Dying Son, and the Quest to Make the Most Profound Videogame Ever
  • cancer children religion games
• America and its guns: What do the numbers tell us?
  • guns statistics
• Netflix now everywhere except North Korea, China, Syria, Crimea
  • Netflix
• New details linking stress, fat metabolism revealed
  • stress fat metabolism
• Low sunlight, vitamin D doubles your risk of leukemia
  • vitaminD sun cancer
• Your Grandparents Spent More Of Their Money On Food Than You Do
  • food money
• Philip Pullman: professional writers set to become an endangered species
  • writing publishing money PhilipPullman
• The truth about "parent sex"
  • sex children parenting
• 19th century Victorian dating invitation cards - the old fashioned way to pick up women.
  • relationships dating history
• Happy Incept Day Roy Batty!
  • birthday bladerunner

Taylor Swift: Acoustic Blank Space

"Taylor performs "Blank Space" at The GRAMMY Museum" (Watch on YouTube)

Interesting more for the preamble where she talks about the way the mediia talks about her. (I like the song, but acoustic versions aren't generally my thing.)