Interesting Links for 21-06-2016

"My dad thought HIS dad was dead until I was a year old. Then he found him in the Toronto phone book."

(tags: family parenting history viaLProven )

The cultural case for remaining in Europe

(tags: europe art referendum uk )

25 Old Comics Without Context That Are Beyond Disturbing

(tags: comics funny viaPhilmoPhlegm )

Where Geek Girls Come From

(tags: geeks women )

Silencing of gene affects people's social lives

(tags: genetics social psychology )

Researchers link childhood hunger, violence later in life

See all those kids whose parents can't afford to feed them well right now...
(tags: hunger food violence self-control )

Adolescents respond well to rewards, basically ignore punishment

(tags: reward learning punishment adolescence teenagers psychology )

Some real-life inspirations for the last GoT episode's battle

(tags: war history gameofthrones )

Poll reveals third of Leave voters believe MI5 conspiring with Government to stop Brexit

(tags: conspiracy uk politics voting referendum europe )

#NoWomanEver is full of snarky goodness

(tags: abuse twitter women )

A Third of Valve is Now Working on VR

(tags: valve VirtualReality )

Shallow Grave...with a time machine

"TIME LAPSE - Official Trailer [HD]" (Watch on YouTube)

I've not seen this - but it looks good. Anyone got a review to share?

I bought myself a new comics reader

Some of you may remember me buying myself a tablet for reading electronic comics a few years ago.

It was a great size, but sadly at that point cheap Android tablets were, frankly, badly underpowered.

This year, it seems, they are not. I bought one of these, which dual-boots between Android and Windows*.

It is awesome.4GB of RAM means that it switches instantly between applications and runs incredibly fast. Enough storage to keep me very happy. Runs for several hours of comic reading, and has a decent IPS screen the size of a trade paperback.

I also picked up a keyboard for it. From GearBest. It works really well as a protector for the screen, and is magnetic so it slots instantly into place.

There's quite a good review here.

If you're looking for a mini-laptop/large tablet then I highly recommend it.

The only downside is that it shipped from China and took about a month to get to me. But if you can live with that then you're all good.

*Suddenly I'm having dejavu. Did I already post about this? Possibly on Facebook???