Interesting Links for 25-03-2018

[andrewducker]

What's going on with bikes and trams in Edinburgh?

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Fun swirly dominos video

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The mystery of the stalker dental hygienist

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Food insecurity is strongly correlated with obesity

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Dumbledore: Severus I’m still missing your photo for this year’s faculty newsletter...

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Men - when another man is sexist, this is how you respond

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On Corbyn and anti-Semitism

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Appeals Court Says It's Okay To Copyright An Entire Style Of Music

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Man arrested for terror offences after filming police officer's bad parking

(tags: security_theatre OhForFucksSake police uk )

First non-stop scheduled flight from Australia to Britain lands after 17 hours

(tags: UK australia airplanes )

Universal credit to slash benefits for the self-employed

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How and why to search for young Einstein's

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The myth of the male bumbler

(tags: abuse men viaFanf )

The Daily Mail and the Sun are both viewed terribly by British people

(tags: UK DailyMail polls )

Plaid Cymru 'would hold Wales independence referendum'

But support is very low
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Are You Anti-Semitic? A Handy Guide.

(tags: Jews bigotry )

Comments

[momentsmusicaux]

I believe it's 'No bleach'.

[darkoshi]

I thought I remembered the triangle being an abstract representation of an iron. But based on the tag in the shirt I'm wearing, you are right. The iron one actually looks like an iron. I wouldn't be able to figure out what these symbols meant if there weren't words too; I wonder how many people really rely on them. My triangle has 2 diagonal lines in it; "non-chlorine bleach only". The iron has 2 dots which apparently indicate a "warm" temperature (but there is no cold ironing, so I still don't know what that means. low heat? medium heat?). It doesn't matter as I'd never iron this sweatshirt anyway, and I never wash with chlorine bleach. When I do iron, I don't look at the tags, except maybe to check what the material is, because the iron's setting is based on the material.

[momentsmusicaux]

> There was a suggestion that the temporary closure of lanes on Leith Walk could be used as an experiment to study the impact of reducing traffic on the route and the plans could be amended if justified. Rob Leech responded saying that would possibly mean making a variation to the contract – a potentially costly business.

Why does it seem that Edinburgh is always discussion projects when some aspects of it are already locked down in contracts? This was the same problem with the awful roundabout they're putting in at Picardy Place.

[doug]

Housekeeping: the first half dozen or so links appear to be missing tags.

[andrewducker]

That'll be the point Pinboard fixed their API.

[movingfinger]

Thanks for posting these links, they're like a great magazine!

[andrewducker]

*blush*

Thank you :-)

[agoodwinsmith]

I'm glad to see the tags back - I find it interesting how much I relied on them. Question: how do you get the tagging system to automatically identify something you (meaning you Andrew) would label OFFS?

[andrewducker]

Oh, the tags are entirely manual.

(Well, I get autocomplete from previous tags I've used)

[agoodwinsmith]

Um. If they are manual, why do they start up again half way through this day's list? Um. We may be in a territory where I need so much background info to understand this process that you can't speak to me quickly about it. If so, nevermind. :)

[andrewducker]

The links are autoposted from Pinboard, which is where I store them:
https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker

If you'll look there, you'll see that they stopped appearing about 7 days ago, and reappeared about 3 days ago, when Pinboard got fixed again.

[agoodwinsmith]

Yeahbut nobut. I know the links were missing. And then the links came back without tags - and I missed the tags. And then in this post the tags came back about half way through. If the tags were all manual, you would have all the links with tags. Automagic tags might appear in midlinklist. So: tags: magic, or your trained eagle eye establishes the appropriate tag(s)? Or mix? Or?

[andrewducker]

"If the tags were all manual, you would have all the links with tags."

No, because the tag bit of Pinboard was broken for about three days, so it wasn't storing the tags that I was entering.

Which are all carefully handpicked. It does sometimes suggest tags for pages which other people have saved previously though - but 99% of the time I'm choosing them entirely manually.

[agoodwinsmith]

Aha - thank you for persevering with me.

[pseudomonas]

support is very low

Support will get higher once the St Petersburg Troll Factory gets its teeth into it.

[andrewducker]

Not necessarily. Russia wants us out of Europe.

Once we leave it won't want Wales going independent and coming back.

[pseudomonas]

It's all chaos. If we're still members of the UN security council and of NATO, they'll still want us destabilised.

On 25 March 2018 at 20:16, andrewducker - DW Comment <dw_null@dreamwidth.org</p>

[nancylebov]

I wonder whether people's bodies can tell the difference between externally caused food insecurity and severe efforts to lose weight.

[andrewducker]

Severe diets trigger metabolic slowing. So probably not.

[danieldwilliam]

It's becoming clear to me that the only solution to Edinburgh's traffic conumdrums is to build a network of tunnels under the city. I'm sure we could bring the project to a successful completion for little more than the GDP of Malawi.

[andrewducker]

Here's your solution:
https://youtu.be/ZDOI0cq6GZM

[melchar]

LOVED the dominoes video[s] & the 'Snape pics' were the best!

[agoodwinsmith]

Yes. This is very cool about the how:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro3lVeccQqY

[andrewducker]

Thank you, that was great!

[andrewducker]

Glad you liked them :-)