Interesting Links for 11-04-2018

How does a colour get from a description in code to your eyeball? (A fascinating journey)

(tags: eyes colour computers light )

The closest exoplanet to Earth just got doused with deadly flares

(tags: space planets death )

Australian English (unintentionally) promotes gender equality by offering informal gender-neutral names for jobs that have traditional '-man' endings.

(tags: Australia language gender )

A simple change in the law could open up online access to the BBC's archives

(tags: BBC law uk )

How to have one of everything in the universe

(tags: funny categorisation )

Thirty years after I first saw it in a French book shop, the comic version of The Forever War is finally available in an English collection

(tags: comic scifi war )

US revenge porn victim gets $6.4m damage award

(tags: abuse internet crime )

Nick Griffin declares his support for Jeremy Corbyn

(tags: bnp Labour politics syria )

Movie about crack mayor Rob Ford to star mediocre male reporter instead of brilliant woman one who investigated him

(tags: movies gender OhForFucksSake journalism )

People with one sugar craving gene have less body fat overall

(tags: genetics sugar fat )

Why SQLite Does Not Use Git

(tags: git versioncontrol development )

How to lose a million euros outsourcing development

(tags: outsourcing india development )

Brexiters keep insisting that The Commonwealth can replace the EU for trade. This is complete nonsense

(tags: uk history trade europe )