Interesting Links for 11-08-2014

[andrewducker]

• J.R.R. Tolkien's 10 Tips For Writers
  (tags: Tolkien writing advice )
• How a Basic Income would make it easier to work flexibly, and be a better fit for modern society
  (tags: GuaranteedIncome work )
• 11 Problems With The House Of Lords Explained Using Cats
  (tags: law houseoflords cats politics reform )
• Amazon opens up a new front in its war. This time with Disney.
  (tags: Disney Amazon media movies business )
• What happens when you apply science to Anime Magical Girls
  (tags: anime Japan science )
• Here’s a map that lets you cyberstalk cats all around the world
  (tags: cats stalking maps )
• 47% of initial applications for our Hacker Retreat came from women. This is how we did it.
  (tags: computers women )
• 5 Things I Learned as a Foreign Aid Worker
  (tags: aid )
• What Is Google Genomics?
  (tags: Google genetics )
• First-person Hyperlapse videos are a pretty neat idea
  (tags: video Microsoft timelapse )
• Here's What Happens When Your Joke Goes Massively Viral On Twitter
  (tags: funny Twitter viral )
• The crooked ladder - how criminals used to achieve upward mobility, and why it doesn't happen any more
  (tags: gangs crime drugs class race USA )
• OpenStreetMap - 2007 vs 2014
  (tags: maps history )