Interesting Links for 09-12-2017

A guide to Bitcoin: The amazing investment based on dream gold invented by a wizard

(tags: Bitcoin satire funny )

Women can't sing rock: The Middlesbrough bar which bans female-fronted bands

(tags: women music OhForFucksSake ViaDrCross )

Korea is obsessed with Bitcoin

Also, I flew to Venice a few days ago and the in-flight magazine had _seven_ full-page ads for either Bitcoin or other blockchain/cryptocurrency technology. I wonder how much more ridiculous things can get.
(tags: bitcoin )

Couple Abandon Baby Because She Received A Blood Transfusion From A Transgender Woman

(tags: india transgender lgbt viaSupergee OhForFucksSake )

Theresa May’s Brexit deal ‘hard to reconcile’ with UK leaving the single market and customs union, EU says

(tags: europe uk )

Silicon Valley Is Hiring Models To Go Their Holiday Parties

(tags: party Technology business women OhForFucksSake )

A guide to Parliament’s Brexit tribes

(tags: UK Europe politics )

Healthcare for American Small Business Owners is Awful

(tags: healthcare usa OhForFucksSake business )

Learnings from a Mental-Health First-Aid course

(tags: mentalhealth )

My Lousy Children Are Both Fake Geeks

(tags: children geekery funny )

Trade talks will not start until February at earliest, EU tells UK

Maybe by then we'll know what we want out of them?
(tags: UK Europe trade )

Does Socialism Make People Happy?

(tags: socialism happiness europe )

Lithium-ion battery packs are $209/kWh, down 24% from a year ago and 80% from 2010.

(tags: batteries GoodNews )

Americans have to put up with Square Dancing because Henry Ford was scared of "negro music"

(tags: history dancing usa WTF racism )

Photo-realistic lip-sync from text

(tags: video technology voice )

How Patreon Sees Things

(tags: money CrowdFunding OhForFucksSake )

How William Carlos Williams’s famous poem about plums in the icebox became a meme.

My favourite: https://twitter.com/FW_Medieval/status/937726166785581057 Hwæt! þēos plumas þe in icebox wære swylce þu ge-saving hǽdfe for þæm breoc-fastum eaten hæbbe ic. Me forgif mine gyltas for synnum minum Swæt wǽre swa swa ceoll frofer mannum. Þæs ofereode, þisses swa mæg.
(tags: poetry meme )