Interesting Links for 05-07-2017
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andrewducker- Photobucket Just Broke Billions of Photos Across the Web
- I have no issue with them charging money for external hosting. But £300, on no notice, feels a tad mafia-like.
Amazon charges less than 10cents per GB for bandwidth. Photobucket will make a killing (if they can persuade anyone to sign up).
(tags: photos web fail money business ) - Space Isn’t What You Think It Is
- (tags: space physics )
- How the ancient Romans made world’s ‘most durable’ concrete.
- (tags: materials rome history )
- Menstruation doesn't change working memory, cognitive bias or ability to pay attention to two things at once.
- (tags: menstruation thought memory Intelligence bias women )
- Minister: Immigration detainees 'benefit from £1-an-hour work'
- (tags: money immigration OhForFucksSake uk )
- Scotland's NHS is to offer free abortions to women from Northern Ireland
- (tags: scotland nhs NorthernIreland )
- Volvo becomes the first major car manufacturer to go all electric
- (tags: cars electricity )
- Saudi Arabia is chief foreign promoter of Islamist extremism in the UK, warns report
- Meanwhile, the government aren't publishing their own report, which presumably says much the same thing...
(tags: saudiarabia terrorism uk ) - The $100 Billion per year back pain industry is mostly a hoax
- (tags: bodies health medicine fraud )
- A Short History of the O'Reilly Animals
- (tags: animals programming books viaSwampers design )
- #HeterosexualPrideDay backfires as LGBT users subvert it on Twitter
- (tags: lgbt OhForFucksSake )
- Learning from Scotland’s NHS
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- No libraries or streetlights left in Britain by 2020 if austerity doesn't stop, warns Tory local government chief
- (tags: uk austerity )
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Date: 2017-07-05 11:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-07-05 11:43 am (UTC)I'm thinking of shelling out for a professional site as I take my photography seriously enough to make it worth it.
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Date: 2017-07-05 11:48 am (UTC)Also, Imgur has now started doing redirects too, I believe.
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Date: 2017-07-05 11:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-07-05 12:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-07-05 12:40 pm (UTC)