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Interesting Links for 15-04-2014
Apr. 15th, 2014 12:00 pm- Liberal fascism is everywhere: Behold its shocking rise!
- Whatever happened to Opera?
- Whatever happened to DVDs?
- Artificial blood will be manufactured in factories
- Person intends to ask /r/socialskills for help on making friends, ask /r/socialism instead. Hilarity ensues.
- Libertarian Police Department
- Captain America's "To-Do List" is Different Depending on the Country
- Universal computing by DNA origami robots in a living animal
- Empowerment program greatly decreases incidence of rape
- Babies prefer fairness - unless unfairness helps people who share their race.
- Autistic children? Get a dog.
- A fantastic rant by @acommonlawyer on the occasion of Nigel Evans having to pay his own defence costs
- Super Planet Crash - Can you create a solar system that lasts 500 years?
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Interesting Links for 03-04-2014
Apr. 3rd, 2014 12:00 pm- The best piece I've read on the HIMYM ending.
- Erotica Written By An Alien Pretending Not To Be Horrified By The Human Body
- Scientists generate the first detailed pictures of the events in the womb that form the human brain.
- The worst excuses for not paying the minimum wage
- Hands up who wants a robot kangaroo!
- Government paying MS £6million to support XP for another year
Interesting Links for 06-03-2014
Mar. 6th, 2014 11:00 am- Dalai Lama at a Santa Fe ski resort: Tells waitress the meaning of life.
- Rolls-Royce imagines a future of robot ships
- Mesmerizing GIFs Show Cities Passing From Day to Night
- Moving out of poverty makes girls less depressed, but boys moreso.
- New data confirms Arctic ice trends: Ice-free season getting longer by five days per decade
- If Scotland goes Independent then England gets RBS. Good luck to them :->
- Mathematicians are chronically lost and confused (and that’s how it’s supposed to be)
- The London WorldCon apologises for RossFail
Ok,I mostly linked to that because I thought of "RossFail".
- Parents! Do your children have questions about the opposite sex? This post is full of information!
- You haven't heard "Sweet Child O' Mine" until you've heard it performed on a Guzheng
- Some great commentary on Ukraine here
- On the Etiquette of Sharing Web Comics
- Indian police ignore corruption for over eight years because they didn't know the complaint system password
- How to debug small programs
- What happened when a photographer came face-to-face with one of antartica's most vicious predators
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Interesting Links for 08-01-2014
Jan. 8th, 2014 11:00 am- Tips for girls
- Woman doesn't shave. World fails to end.
- Welcome to a new game genre: The Online Bastardry Simulator
- Cheers me up to read "39 things only men approaching 40 will understand" and only score 9 :->
- Lost in Bitstrips - a comic about being stuck in those comics that have been popular on FB recently.
- 10 key economic facts that prove Scotland will be a wealthy independent nation (anyone care to counter?)
- World's First Commercially Available Self-Driving Car Launches (more of a tour bus, but still!)
- At last, a law to stop almost anyone from doing almost anything
Interesting Links for 02-01-2014
Jan. 2nd, 2014 11:00 am- New year, new laws: world will wake up to raft of changes in 2014
- Your Complete Guide to the Science of Hangovers
- Watchmen Manipulations is the new best thing ever.
- Games now make more on digital than physical media, music very close.
- Redesigned Window Stops Sound But Not Air
- I, Glasshole: My Year With Google Glass
- NASA are using an Oculus Rift and a Kinect for remote telepresence experiments.
- What's it like being a Government STD Notifier?
- Sense Of Smell Starts At The Genetic Level
- How many members of the Enterprise does it take to change a light bulb?
- 21 Of The Most Mesmerizing Food GIFs
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Interesting Links for 20-12-2013
Dec. 20th, 2013 11:00 am- Eerie Eastern European War Memorials Look Like They're From Another Planet
Had some of these before, back in 2011, but they're worth seeing again
- There are, apparently, no gay football players in the UK
- Robots Can't End Amazon's Labor Woes Because They Don't Have Hands. (Yet)
- Two days after being named to U.S. delegation for Sochi, figure skating champ Brian Boitano says he's gay
- On The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and weaknesses in the source material
- Strax Report: The many faces of The Doctor
- Youth-drug can 'reverse' ageing in animal studies
- Hilarious post-it notes from a stay-at-home Dad
- I am totally trying this next time we change our duvet cover!
- New salt compounds challenge the foundation of chemistry
Interesting Links for 06-12-2013
Dec. 6th, 2013 11:00 am- Why You Can't Build a Smartphone
- Forget Winning the Hunger Games — One of the Best YA Series Is a Story of Failure
- An Obituary for the Letter E
- UK government to pave way for driverless cars
- Yes Scotland have a bunch of answers to frequently asked questions. Is there somewhere impartial doing likewise?
- Women find sexually explicit ads unappealing -- unless price is right
- 80 years ago the US realised banning didn't work for alcohol. Some day they'll realise it doesn't work at all.
- The Music Theory Song
- A hint as to why the Republicans don't appeal to the African American or female vote...
- 'Determination' can be induced by electrical brain stimulation
- Probiotic therapy alleviates autism-like behaviors in mice
- Fact-checking Cameron on Mandela
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Interesting Links for 08-11-2013
Nov. 8th, 2013 11:00 am- How on earth have we just discovered a new bit of the knee???
- Jaw-dropping breakthrough hailed as landmark in fight against hereditary diseases as Crispr technique heralds genetic revolution
- First sign that humanity is slowing its carbon surge
- Children who have autism far more likely to have stomach problems
- Ian McKellen has the best underwear ever.
- Driverless "pods" to be introduced in Milton Keynes
- A review of my new phone. I like it.
- Fountain of youth? Scientists discover why wounds heal quicker for young people
- The Post Wikipedia Doesn't Want You To See
- Leaving White Nationalism - a Klan leader speaks out.
- Why Everyone Gets Robocop But Nobody Gets Starship Troopers
- Starship Troopers: One of the Most Misunderstood Movies Ever
- An open letter from Anonymous on Guy Fawkes masks and reporting.
Interesting Links for 26-10-2013
Oct. 26th, 2013 12:00 pm- Why you shouldn't share links to missing people on Facebook
- Dear Daily Mail, if a man is left in charge of his own child, he is parenting, not babysitting
- My Creative Writing Professor Told Me To Stop Writing About Love
- What the Large Hadron Collider is _really_ for.
- Data Shows Google’s Robot Cars Are Smoother, Safer Drivers Than You or I
- Look Inside the Extremely Rare Codex Seraphinianus, the Weirdest Encyclopedia Ever
Interesting Links for 19-09-2013
Sep. 19th, 2013 12:00 pm- France to ban child beauty pageants
- Grand Theft Auto V: game’s dig at Edinburgh trams
- Grand Theft Auto Vmakes $800 Million in one day.
- The truth about socks
- Google's New Project to Solve Death
- Auto-Brewery Syndrome: Apparently, You Can Make Beer In Your Gut
- Women! Demanding! Cock!
- Myers-Briggs - The Fad That Won't Die
- 50,000 people now facing eviction over bedroom tax
- Tesla To Build A Self-Driving Car Within 3 Years
Interesting Links for 18-09-2013
Sep. 18th, 2013 12:00 pm- Every day, 520million books-worth of text is posted on the internet.
- Sleepy Hollow Is Crazy, Dumb Fun With a Machine Gun-Wielding Headless Horseman
- Why Telling Men "No" Doesn't Work For Everybody -- And Can Even Be Dangerous
- In Radical Shift, Robots Work Right Next to Auto Workers
- Ranking The Disney “Renaissance Era” Animated Films
- A very unusual brain.
- Where would the Conservatives be now if they had gone with constitutional reform?
- George RR Martin talks about what's coming on next seasons GOT
- How SyFy's "reality TV" ruined a convention for people trying to have fun.
- Do Lib Dems have the nerve to win STV for local government?
- Dinosaur Feathers Discovered in Canadian Amber
- Physicists Discover Geometry Underlying Particle Physics | Simons Foundation
Physicists have discovered a jewel-shaped geometric object that challenges the notion that space, time and particles are fundamental constituents of nature.
- Ben Affleck Reads Comments About Batman Casting, Learns Not to Read Comments
- The definitive difference between Funny and LOL
- Areas with free school meals for primary pupils saw them two months ahead academically
- Mad Men finale season split across two years - 2014 and 2015.
- How to pick up women (with science)
- How do people feel about their local MPs?
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Interesting Links for 08-09-2013
Sep. 8th, 2013 12:00 pm- I hadn't realised they actually waxed Steve Carell's chest for 40 Year Old Virgin
- Blake's "The Tyger" in limerick form
- The “Bowie Bonds”
- Creationism alive in Scottish state primary school
- Headmaster reports student to police for being "Enchanted by anarchism and individualism"
- Cringe-inducing 3D scan of a woman's foot bones in high heels
- Mind-altering drug could offer life free of heroin
- A darkly funny look at the future of 3d printing
- Giant Robotic Mining Trucks Love the Australian Desert
- Maths and Economics do not have the best of relationships
- 6 Freaky Things Your Body Does (Explained by Science) - Finally, an explanation for brain-freeze!
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Interesting Links for 29-08-2013
Aug. 29th, 2013 12:00 pm- Generational shift in attitudes among young soccer players towards gay teammates
- Syria: what do Liberal Democrats want?
- The Middle East, explained in one (sort of terrifying) chart
- Isaac Asimov's 1964 predictions for 2014.
- Will we ever want to have sex with robots?
Obligatory Futurama: http://vimeo.com/12915013
- Bedroom Tax costing more than it saves as housing benefit bill soars by £1.5bn
- An interesting take on Miley Cyrus
- Five reasons why Syria is not Iraq
- In historic vote, New Zealand bans software patents
- Let me tell you one of my pet peeves: Space solar power.
- How one genius turns annoying cold calls into cash
- Google Hangouts switching to VP8 and WebRTC
- Miniature human brain grown in laboratory
- Study shows men just as likely to be depressed as women
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Interesting Links for 24-07-2013
Jul. 24th, 2013 12:00 pm- Breastfed children are less likely to develop ADHD later in life
- ATOS lose monopoly on work capability assessments after audit shows up “unacceptable” standards
- A comparison of different Android interfaces
- Sexual history mitigates rape? It does in Scotland...
- The Forgotten Employee (I honestly can't tell if this is truth or fiction)
- Porn blocking - a survivor's perspective
- Autonomous Robots Self-Assemble and Take Flight as One
- The Onion's Royal Baby coverage is _fantastic_
- True tales of (mostly) white-hat hacking
- A hotel that's a decomissioned Jumbo Jet!
- The first wet-plate conflict photos in 150 years
- More wet-plate photographs from the Afghanistan war zone.
- Best idea for a zombie RPG ever.
- What Teachers Make
- Wolves Eating Watermelons
- Star Wars vs. Game of Thrones
- 12 Silly Things People Believe About Computers (patronising, but scarily true)
- Once again, the data shows everyone was wrong about tuition fees
- EU plan to cut credit and debit card fees is confirmed
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Interesting Links for 17-07-2013
Jul. 17th, 2013 12:00 pm- This is what it looks like when you replace photographers with iPhone-wielding reporters
- Why different polls show Labout 9 points ahead, and tied with the Conservatives
- The Perfect Robot: A graduation speech
- Dementia Rate Is Found to Drop Sharply, as Forecast
- McDonalds’ suggested budget for employees shows just how impossible it is to get by on minimum wage
The 'budget' includes a second job, no heat, and no money for food.
- A friend is selling off a bunch of her clothes - much of it unworn and pretty.
- Driverless cars to be tested on UK roads by end of 2013
- Amazing paper art
- A conversation with Spotify (Not at all what I expected)
- Same-sex marriage set to enter law later this week
- Vatican offers 'time off purgatory' to followers of Pope Francis tweets
- The most important question about iPads.
- The right snack may aid satiety, weight loss
- Tory MP goes on a war path against leadership
- Where are the Voyagers
- Woman sues Yakuza crime boss - for a refund of protection money
- Giant Chrome T-Rex Installed on the Seine River
- SimCity Leads Depart EA To Go Indie
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Interesting Links for 16-07-2013
Jul. 16th, 2013 12:00 pm- In times of change, make tires
- Mathematics: human invention, or built in to the fabric of the universe?
- Gangnam Style Is One Year Old, And Music Is Forever Different
- Engineers, and the Managers they Make
- Why I’m hiring graduates with thirds this year
- The road to peace on the internet is a hard one.
- Seven short stories about drones
- The incredible embroidery of Game of Thrones (worth following back to the original site for more).
- 20 years after Windows 3.11, Linus unveils “Linux for Workgroups”
- Apocalyptic Scooby-Doo Daphne and Velma Cosplay
- They're making a comic of the original Star Wars script. Iiiiinteresting.
- Pacific Rim's hilarious “fourth-string” Jaegers revealed
- Disney Princesses Redesigned with Historically Accurate Outfits (Cue the historian snark...)
- Five things Iain Duncan Smith doesn't want you to know about the benefit cap
- The is the most insane programming feat I've seen in a long while.
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Interesting Links for 09-07-2013
Jul. 9th, 2013 12:00 pm- Now here's a anti-sexual-violence campaign I like.
- One in five Conservatives consider switching to UKIP
- Holographic Duality Hints at Hidden Subatomic World
- I'd love to have a decent left-wing party to vote for. Sadly, what we seem to have is something escaped from satire.
- People with depression tend to pursue generalized goals
- US agency baffled by modern technology, destroys mice to get rid of viruses
- Trade unions should trump Ed Miliband and let their members opt in to membership of any party
- What The Iron Throne really looks like
- First arrest captured on Google Glass points to a “Little Brother” future
- The last Incan suspension bridge is made entirely of grass and woven by hand.
- Aye, robot: Scotland's rise of the machines
- St John's Ambulance is still making claims it can't back up.
- Sex, friends and strangers: what women should expect when they stop shaving
- How much do you know about the UK?
- Choir singers synchronise their heartbeats
- Game of Throne Characters Drawn in the Style of ‘The Simpsons’
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Interesting Links for 25-06-2013
Jun. 25th, 2013 12:00 pm- Housing report critical of government short termism (tl;dr: BUILD MORE)
- What's going on with the EU's farming subsidies?
- Basic income versus the robots
- Stephen Fry writes about Loneliness
- This is how I learn to use new tools
- Some entries for the computer contradictionary
- Do we know whether pornography harms people?
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