Interesting Links for 01-09-2014
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andrewducker- Video of inlating a pair of smoker's lungs vs. a pair of healthy lungs
- California votes to replace "no means no" with "Yes means yes" in colleges.
- If programming languages were weapons
- What happens when you give psychedelics to people and ask them to solve problems?
- Song of Ice and Fire author George RR Martin on success, chess and the wrath of superfans
- The LHC is making some of our theories of physics unworkable - but new ones are emerging
- Hands up if you're a cute animal
- Remember when they thought that technology would last?
- There are some fetishes that Google cannot help you with
- If you like theatre, then this conversation between the social media reps for various plays will amuse you.
- The U.S. Navy Tests Its Ships in This Indoor Ocean
- The Boeing 777 Flies on 99.9% Ada
- Half of young women can't locate their vaginas
- Lothian buses bring in a new card for journeys. Which doesn't do day-tickets and can't be topped up online.
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Date: 2014-09-02 05:30 pm (UTC)Yesterday, for the first time, I used my eticketing app to buy a day pas for First West Yorkshire on my phone. Bit of a faff to setup, but a day pass that displays on my phone screen is a wonderful thing, in theory, even if I worry about it in practice (getting home on 10% battery is fine, getting to the busstop on less than that and needing it is not fine).
What is the point of a top up card that only lets you top up at certain annoying points and doesn't have a daily cap? Weird.
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Date: 2014-09-02 05:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-02 06:47 pm (UTC)I _can_ buy a ticket on my phone, which is something. Not that I do - I have a monthly pass that renews via direct debit.