Interesting Links for 29-01-2018

[andrewducker]

46 tons of Mardi Gras beads found in clogged New Orleans catch basins

(tags: new_orleans water )

Delta V Solar System Maps

(tags: space visualisation )

Gods, goddesses, and L Ron Hubbard in Australia's controversial lamb advert

(tags: sheep food advertising australia )

I didn't know how easy it was to kidnap tigers

(tags: tiger video )

Dinosaur ballet is clearly the best ballet

(tags: ballet dancing dinosaurs )

Cats doing capoeira

(tags: cats cute )

Did A Teenage Girl Make The Kinks Great?

(tags: music )

Connections between high blood sugar and dementia

(tags: sugar dementia alzheimers )

Sailing drones provide high quality ocean data

(tags: drone ocean )

Yes, There Is Gravity in Space (even though most tv and movies get it wrong)

(tags: space gravity physics )

Tory MP David Davies condemned for transphobic and abhorrent views by party's official LGBT group

(tags: lgbt Conservatives transgender )

Strava Heatmap turns out to be *amazing* for finding military bases and patrol routes

(tags: military maps surveillance OhForFucksSake )

How far do you get from London before you hit 50% of the population

(tags: uk london population )

The 3 Things I had to Realise Before I 'got' Dark Souls

I am regularly amused by the videos I see that say "Once I realised I had to give in to Stockholm Syndrome I learned to love Dark Souls!" Which means that either, yes, you have to think a bit differently to like it, because it is a bit different. Or it means that the game just isn't very likeable for most people and maybe they should have made it more accessible if they wanted more people to like it. (I reckon they're perfectly happy appealing to the people it does appeal to, considering how successful the franchise is).
(tags: games video )

Trump doesn't really understand he's not the CEO of America

(tags: usa politics republicans OhForFucksSake )

Annihilation: Paramount dropping UK cinema release (Would totally have paid money to see it as well!)

(tags: movies netflix )

Cats! In! Boxes!

(tags: Cats cute )

If your horse riders aren't on fire your sport is inferior

(tags: sport fire awesome )

An island that switches countries every six months

(tags: countries history )

Vegans are now 1% of the UK population, and they're getting militant

(tags: food vegan uk )

Star Wars fans defy church protests to attend first cinema showing on a Sunday in Isle of Lewis

Note that most of the population want to be able to do things on a Sunday, with a few religious leaders holding them back.
(tags: religion StarWars GoodNews viaSwampers )

Watch tiny children learn how the patriarchy works

(tags: children consent society patriarchy )

What I learned from three months of Content Moderation for Facebook in Berlin

(tags: Facebook )

Comments

Children learning patriarchy

[alithea]

Dear me, while I'm not sure a child of that age can have a sense of entitlement that is gendered, yeah, we have a long way to go :(

50% of the population

[danieldwilliam]

I would like to see similar charts for other UK cities.

Delta V

[danieldwilliam]

I'm not sure I follow the Delta V chart. I'll need to have another look and see if it clicks in to place.

Saling Drones

[danieldwilliam]

The sailing drones are quite cool. We're going to get a lot of hydrographic data over the next few decades as the robots get better at operating long duration missions without much human day to day interaction.

Collission regulations (not bumping in to things) are still an issue I believe.

[calimac]

50% population ring: a comment says that they know it's more than 50 miles (from London to Bristol), not because they have any sense of distance, because then they'd know it's far more than 50 miles, but because it's "more than a 2 days ride." On what? Not a car. A bicycle? A horse? Maybe a train, rail service being what it is.

Trump as CEO: a comment says "The Constitution says he can" (give orders to the Justice Dept). No it doesn't. Where do they think it says that? The only thing it says about the civilian officers of the government is that the President can appoint them and demand their opinions on matters relating to their departments. It also says he's Commander in Chief, but only of the armed forces. Them he can give orders to.

Learning the patriarchy: I don't think the point is that the tiny boy is necessarily already acting on the privilege of the patriarchy. The point is that this is how he learns that he can.

Part of the comment says "no one is stopping it and taking her away and protecting her." Taking her away? That won't help. Take him away and give him a little scolding.

Strava and related stuff - holy shit.

[agoodwinsmith]

The twitter thread about Strava is interesting - and someone posted a youtube about how easy it is to find and aggregate info about a person. It's an hour long, but well worth the time (I cleaned out my gunky keyboard while listening):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XED-r29_Iw&feature=youtu.be

Holy moly, etc.

Argh.

Tigers and Dinosaur Pingpong.

[agoodwinsmith]

I also want to thank you for the tigers - cats are clumsy selfish individuals no matter the size - big feet in the face. :)

And the drawing of the dinosaur sports are so excellent - thank you thank you.

Cats in boxes

[anef]

The picture of the leopard inna box made me laugh.