Interesting Links for 15-08-2017

[andrewducker]

Lovefilm By Post DVD rental service to close

I have some sympathy for people living in low bandwidth areas. But mostly I think we should be cabling them up too.
(tags: DVD streaming movies technology )

Parked electric cars are earning (absolutely tiny amounts of) money balancing the grid in Denmark

(tags: electricity cars denmark )

The International Conference on J.R.R. Tolkien's Invented Languages

(tags: Tolkien language )

An evolutionary biologist dismantles the Google Diversity Memo

(tags: google diversity gender brain evolution )

Charlottesville White Supremacists Begin to Lose Jobs, Web Hosting Platforms

(tags: racism jobs )

Trump talking about what great genes he has. Particularly the German ones...

(tags: genes politics race usa )

Amazon's Good Omens Miniseries Will Star Michael Sheen and David Tennant

(tags: neilgaiman terrypratchett tv davidtennant )

Denying a dying patient access to their vaper is the height of puritan cruelty

(tags: nicotine death OhForFucksSake )

People who are 'fat but fit' face 26% higher risk of heart disease

(tags: fat health heart )

Comments

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[bugshaw]

I had just been reviewing my subscriptions and decided to keep LoveFilm, for many of the reasons in the article - lots of obscure stuff that's hard to buy, not available to stream, with subtitle options, director commentaries etc. So I'm sorry they've decided to close it.