Interesting Links for 05-02-2024
- 1. RTD Reveals Series 14 of Doctor Who Was Planned to Air Much Sooner, But Hit By FX Delays
- (tags:drwho TV cgi )
- 2. The Apple Vision Pro's Killer App Is … Kitchen Timers
- (tags:time cooking augmentedreality apple )
- 3. Autistic brains create 42% more information at rest
- (tags:autism brain )
- 4. Alan Moore's "Big Numbers" planning spreadsheet
- (tags:comics alanmoore planning spreadsheet )
- 5. Playing dance mat games can help prevent falls in older people
- (tags:dancing games age )
- 6. Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake 'chief financial officer'
- (tags:ai fraud video )
- 7. Nearly 1 in 4 American Adults Who Get COVID-19 Suffer From Long COVID
- (tags:Pandemic disability doom )
- 8. It's now 128 years since we discovered The Greenhouse Effect
- (tags:globalwarming co2 history )
- 9. A newly discovered letter from Tolkien sheds light on Balrogs and Legolas
- (tags:Tolkien funny lotr )
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- toxoplasmagondii,
- travel,
- twitter,
- uk,
- work,
- x-files
Interesting Links for 07-12-2023
- 1. The internet helps solve an X-Files question that fans have been wondering about for 25 years
- (tags:x-files music Twitter )
- 2. Why are movies full of CGI lying about it?
- (tags:cgi movies fraud )
- 3. Incidence and burden of long COVID in Africa - the rates are *staggering*
- (tags:Africa Pandemic Doom )
- 4. Building end-to-end security for Facebook Messenger
- (tags:Facebook communication encryption )
- 5. No, having a cat doesn't increase your risk of developing schizophrenia. Probably.
- (tags:cats schizophrenia ToxoplasmaGondii )
- 6. Services across England now lag far behind East Germany, as experts call for 'universal basic infrastructure' in UK
- (tags:uk germany OhForFucksSake infrastructure austerity )
- 7. Commuting longer than 30 minutes os associated with depression
- (tags:travel work depression mentalhealth )
- 8. Can the new Rwanda bill work and what could stop it?
- (tags:law immigration uk rights echr )
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- advertising,
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- luxury,
- money,
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- mri,
- neilgaiman,
- neuroscience,
- polls,
- psychology,
- simcity,
- slowmotion,
- transport,
- usa,
- video,
- vision
Interesting Links for 07-03-2023
- 1. Did you know there were two types of boomers?
- (tags:generation demographics usa history )
- 2. Reconstructing visual experiences from human brain activity
- (tags:vision mri brain neuroscience ai )
- 3. Slow motion adverts make people think the produce is more luxurious
- (tags:luxury advertising slowmotion video psychology )
- 4. How you phrase questions really really strongly affects the answers you get
- (tags:polls language bias )
- 5. Edinburgh's Lothian Buses announce revised fares from Sunday 2 April
- (tags:edinburgh buses transport money )
- 6. Neil Gaiman on whether CGI is replacing physical movie making
- (tags:movies cgi neilgaiman )
- 7. SimCity 2013 launched a decade ago, and it was so disastrous it killed the series
- (tags:simcity games epicfail )
Interesting Links for 03-03-2023
- 1. Edinburgh's Gorgie Farm to reopen as community venture
- (tags:edinburgh farm )
- 2. Plans approved to remove slavery plaque from Edinburgh statue
- (tags:slavery edinburgh statue )
- 3. Absolutely gorgeously decorated house for sale
- (tags:beautiful homes )
- 4. Taking real photos that look like CGI.
- (tags:cgi graphics photos )
- 5. Hyperfocus Photography - some lovely shots here
- (tags:photos beautiful )
- 6. Regarding Efforts By You, In Inferior Person, To Cancel Me, A Genius
- (tags:satire society troll communication funny )
- 7. Is adspend funding an increase in LGBTQIA+ hate crime?
- (tags:lgbt transgender bigotry advertising )
Interesting Links for 01-12-2022
- 1. 1 in 4 US hiring managers say they are less likely to move forward with Jewish applicants
- (tags:usa Jews bigotry jobs OhForFucksSake )
- 2. A list of practical feminist behaviours for men
- (tags:men feminism advice )
- 3. Copyright, cost, and ageing code: why some games disappear from Steam
- (tags:games history copyright )
- 4. Ofgem reveals plan for cheaper, cleaner electricity supplies
- (tags:electricity renewables UK thefuture )
- 5. Twitter Thrills Far-Right Trolls by Silencing Left-Wing Voices
- (tags:Twitter censorship ElonMusk )
- 6. Disney's new neural network can change an actor's age with ease
- (tags:age cgi ai Disney )
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Interesting Links for 13-08-2022
- 1. The baseline that women will accept from a relationship is rising. Men need to skill up if they don't want to stay single
- (tags:relationships happiness communication )
- 2. The unlikely origin of the name "Fiona"
- (tags:names viaSwampers history Scotland transgender )
- 3. Samsung is above the law in South Korea
- (tags:Korea Samsung law corruption )
- 4. Adventurers and dragons and gold, oh my!
- (tags:funny blockchain fantasy dungeonsanddragons dragons )
- 5. Just how good is green screen work nowadays?
- (tags:cgi animation video viaPatrickHadfield )
- 6. The UK cannot leave the ECHR without breaching the Good Friday Agreement
- (tags:UK NorthernIreland rights Europe )
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- vaccination,
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Interesting Links for 07-02-2021
- Government plans to reverse Cameron NHS reforms - and reduce privatisation
- (tags:NHS UK )
- Beat Saber, the best VR game, has sold 4 million copies
- (tags:games VirtualReality )
- Making steel without emissions
- (tags:electricity materials )
- Covid in Scotland: Vaccines exceeding expectations
- (tags:vaccination Scotland GoodNews )
- UK towns with more immigrants do much better economically
- (tags:immigration economics UK success )
- Jobs where workers have the highest risk of dying from Covid (line cook is the highest, top 5 are all manual labour)
- (tags:pandemic death )
- Don't fall for quantum hype (a video by a researcher in the area about why it's heavily oversold)
- (tags:physics quantum video hyperbole )
- Refusing furlough to working mothers shows gender equality is going backwards
- (tags:parenting pandemic OhForFucksSake )
- The Secret Bipartisan Campaign That Saved the 2020 US Election
- (tags:politics USA )
- Parents of daughters are more likely to divorce than those with sons - but only once those girls become teenagers
- (tags:children parenting teenagers girls )
- Exports to the EU have plummeted by 68% since Brexit
- (tags:UK Europe trade Doom )
- Some Arabic and Persian accounts of the export of tin from Cornwall to Egypt and Iran in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
- (tags:history Cornwall metal trade UK Iran )
- How Marvel Starts The Action Scenes From Movies Years Before Filming
- (tags:CGI movies marvel )
- We've known the earth was round for 2,500 years
- (tags:earth history knowledge )
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- advice,
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Interesting Links for 28-10-2020
- What Comes After the International Space Station?
- (tags:iss space thefuture )
- Royal High School hotel bid rejected in Edinburgh
- (tags:Edinburgh school planning )
- Traditional owners mark one year since closure of Uluru climb
- (tags:australia )
- US grid-battery costs dropped 70% over 3 years
- (tags:batteries electricity USA GoodNews )
- Brexit border software developers warn it will not be ready in time
- (tags:trade UK Europe Doom software )
- Covenants, Easements & Wayleaves: The Hidden Urban Interfaces Which Shape London
- (tags:tube London transport law architecture history viaFanf )
- Scale any task down into a 2-minute version to make it easier to get started
- (tags:advice procrastination )
- Researchers invent white paint which could reduce the need for air conditioning by keeping surfaces cooler than surroundings
- (tags:heat materials viaDanielDWilliam )
- Must remember not to let the kids do this
- (tags:coke CGI funny video )
- Patrol vessel! Vs! Cruise ship!
- (tags:boats funny )
- Patrol vessel! Vs! Cruise ship!
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1246364316355514368.html
(tags:boats funny ) - The UK's mandatory sickness pay is the lowest of the OECD
- (tags:sick pay UK OhForFucksSake )
- I used Minecraft to teach my kids reading and writing
- (tags:Minecraft games literacy children )
- COVID's cognitive costs? Some patients' brains may age 10 years
- (tags:intelligence disease pandemic )
Interesting Links for 24-12-2019
- A long thread about how Northern voters turned away from Labour and towards racism
- (tags:racism politics UK Labour inequality )
- Cats film to be 'resupplied' with improved visuals
- (tags:cats musical cgi )
- With 'Knives Out,' Rian Johnson Finally Bounces Back From Critically Acclaimed, Billion Dollar 'The Last Jedi'
- (tags:movies satire funny StarWars )
- Cats can very clearly recognise things in a mirror
- (tags:mirrors cats vision )
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- academia,
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Interesting Links for 06-12-2019
- Study that argued EVs aren't cleaner gets an update
- (tags:electricity cars transport environment )
- University of Reading threatening to cut 100 per cent of pay if staff don't work unpaid overtime
- (tags:university academia pay jobs )
- "I spent 22 years in prison for a crime I didn't commit. Ask me anything"
- (tags:crime prison USA OhForFucksSake )
- Here's a bunch of evidence of antisemitism in the Labour Party (and of the party not dealing with it properly)
- (tags:jews bigotry labour )
- How to vote in the forthcoming election
- (tags:uk elections )
- Self-styled 'anti-extremism' campaign just spending thousands on anti-Labour attack ads
- (tags:labour politics fraud OhForFucksSake )
- The Psychological Impacts Of Poverty
- (tags:poverty psychology )
- 'The Irishman' Gets De-Aging Right—No Tracking Dots Necessary
- (tags:age cgi movies MartinScorsese )
- Does Who You Are at 7 Determine Who You Are at 63? - A History of the 7-Up Films
- (tags:age class society people film movies documentary uk )
- Pachelbel's Canon as played on passing trains
- (tags:trains music video )
Entry tags:
- addiction,
- advice,
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- eggs,
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- facebook,
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- glass,
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- ice,
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- norway,
- ocean,
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- sand,
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- wwii
Interesting Links for 08-11-2019
- Jeremy Corbyn 'will keep free movement of people' in Brexit U-turn
- (tags:Labour immigration GoodNews )
- Bond Film Anagrams. Very nicely done
- (tags:JamesBond language funny )
- Microsoft's Project Silica offers robust thousand-year storage
- (tags:glass storage )
- When you have already lied to a judge, for god's sake stop digging!
- (tags:lying law USA OhForFucksSake )
- Neil Gaiman confirms that work is already underway on Sandman season 2
- (tags:sandman tv neilgaiman )
- On historical women's fashion, patriarchy, and ease of movement
- (tags:women history clothing )
- Whom the fuck?
- (tags:language swearing )
- Welcome to Britain (WWII Orientation Film for US servicemen arriving in the UK)
- (tags:USA UK history video wwii )
- Italy Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre under guard amid death threats
- (tags:Holocaust Jews Italy OhForFucksSake )
- Man has chip implanted in his brain to help tackle opioid addiction
- (tags:cyborg addiction )
- Penis-and-scrotum transplant patient reports near-normal erections, orgasms
- (tags:penis organdonor )
- MRP models and tactical voting
- (tags:statistics data voting advice polls )
- Massive Facebook document leak gives ammunition to investigators
- (tags:facebook )
- It keeps going: 1 meter sea-level rise by 2300 is now inevitable
- (tags:globalwarming ocean )
- A New Floating Solar Farm Shows That Renewables Can Be Easy
- (tags:solarpower viaDanielDWilliam water )
- Why are India's Twitter users moving to Mastodon?
- (tags:twitter india decentralisation socialnetworking censorship )
- 'Ice eggs' cover Finland beach in rare weather event
- (tags:ice eggs finland weird weather )
- My friend Kenny takes gorgeous photos, including some great cosplay and concert pics
- (tags:photography cosplay music )
- When he supported the Norway option: The Brexit policy Farage would rather forget
- (tags:UK Europe Norway )
- The tech of PIXAR: Piper (modelling millions of grains of sand)
- (tags:pixar sand cgi animation )
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Interesting Links for 07-10-2019
- 20 Years Later, and the Women of Angel Still Deserves More
- (tags:Buffy women pregnancy )
- The UK government appears boxed in on the Brexit extension
- (tags:law uk government europe )
- A floating device created to clean up plastic from the ocean is finally doing its job
- (tags:plastic ocean environment waste )
- Unprecedented rise in infant mortality in England linked to poverty
- (tags:England poverty austerity death babies OhForFucksSake )
- David Bowie and the invisible mask
- (tags:DavidBowie autism confidence )
- The Ocean Cleanup struggles to prove it will not harm sea life
- (tags:Ocean plastic environment nature )
- The British government is interfering with its "independent" advisors
- (tags:UK advice government OhForFucksSake )
- Westworld: the first film with CGI (and its source code)
- (tags:programming movies video cgi )
- "Stop Asking About My Trans Husband's Junk"
- (tags:penis transgender privacy )
- OECD tax reform plans could make inequality worse
- (tags:tax reform inequality )
- US customs officer holds journalist's passport until he agrees he writes 'propaganda'
- (tags:usa immigration OhForFucksSake )
- Countering the worst of the current anti trans propaganda
- (tags:transgender lgbt )
- Book Review: 'The AI Does Not Hate You' by Tom Chivers
- (tags:review rationality books geek ai )
- The missing millions: Young people and private renters left off electoral register ahead of snap election
- (tags:elections voting UK )
- What is a constitution and is the UK undergoing a constitutional crisis
- (tags:constitution uk politics )
- Why Boris Johnson's Brexit offer falls well short of what the EU can accept
- (tags:Europe UK Doom )
- 'World-first' low-carbon greenhouses bigger than the O2 to grow 20 tonnes of tomatoes a day
- (tags:farming uk vegetables )
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Interesting Links for 13-09-2019
- How Britain Plunged Into Its Worst Constitutional Crisis in 400 Years
- (tags:uk constitution law politics power history )
- U.S. to leave global postal union next month
- (tags:postage usa China )
- What Could Happen Next If the Government Resigns Rather than Send the Letter to the EU?
- (tags:UK law government viaDanielDWilliam )
- Israel accused of planting mysterious spy devices near the White House
- (tags:israel spying usa )
- 'Avengers: Endgame' Was Forced to Use CGI Costumes Because Real Ones Would Take Too Long
- (tags:avengers movies cgi costumes marvel )
- The level of unexamined heteronormativity in this article is astounding
- (tags:LGBT archeology wtf )
- A lot of my autistic friends are very positive about this thread. You may find it enlightening
- (tags:society autism )
- California bans private prisons
- (tags:California prison GoodNews )
- Google ditched system similar to Tesla Autopilot in 2013 - Because it was too dangerous
- (tags:automation driving google )
- Kickstarter fires two union organizers.
- (tags:Kickstarter unions OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 09-07-2019
- MT-DNN Achieves Human Performance in General Language Understanding Benchmark
- (tags:language ai )
- For 40 Years, Crashing Trains Was One of America's Favorite Pastimes
- (tags:history trains usa )
- Young women in academia - this clothing will guarantee you respect!
- (tags:clothing women funny )
- 'Babylon 5' is great, so why does it look so bad?
- (tags:TV cgi OhForFucksSake money )
- NHS waiting lists soar as doctors stop working overtime in pension row
- (tags:tax pensions doctors nhs )
- AI pilot 'sees' runway and lands automatically
- (tags:airplanes ai )
- "I ran a bookies for 12 years - they deserve no sympathy for these store closures"
- (tags:gambling UK business )
- Earth's eighth persistent lava lake found on remote sub-Antarctic island
- (tags:geology lava )
- Bitcoin mining on an Apollo Guidance Computer
- (tags:bitcoin computers space history NASA )
- If you're not careful then your children will spend hundreds of pounds gambling for football players
- (tags:gambling children games football )
- Stricken Russian Nuke Sub Crew Prevented 'Planetary Catastrophe'
- (tags:nuclearpower submarine ocean OhForFucksSake firefox )
- Labour's message to Remainers: "Don't vote for us"
- (tags:Labour UK europe )
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- technology,
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- wildlife
Interesting Links for 16-12-2018
- Soup-Salad-Sandwich Space
- (tags: food visualisation )
- How the CGI Tarkin was created for Rogue One
- (tags: StarWars cgi faces )
- KeyForge: The red-hot card game where every deck is unique—and unchangeable
- (tags: games review )
- Outdoor cats kill over 2 billion birds per year and have made over 60 species extinct
- (tags: cats death wildlife )
- This is mostly how I feel when people talk about the terrible effects of mobile phones and social media
- (tags: Technology socialnetworking comic )
- Mansplaining is proof you live in a hard scifi novel
- (tags: scifi sexism funny )
- Sunday Times reports that PM’s team is plotting a new referendum
- (tags: UK europe referendum )
- “Pass Brexit deal and fall behind Lib Dems.", voters tell Corbyn in poll
- (tags: labour polls uk europe )
- British voters despair of both Conservatives and Labour
- (tags: voting UK politics )
- Busy Beavers, and the Quest for Big Numbers
- (tags: computing numbers mathematics )
- The Gillian Duffy/Gordon Brown conversation was a watershed in British politics
- (tags: politics immigration labour OhForFucksSake )
- What it's like to have ingested a lot of British culture via TV, despite not being at all British
- (tags: uk culture tv )
Interesting Links for 20-12-2016
- Don't dismiss Simon Jenkins as a strident identity apostle. He's right: men are people too!
- (tags: patriarchy society uk satire )
- People who are already off work having massive orgy this afternoon
- (tags: work christmas fun )
- India's economy surpasses United Kingdom
- (tags: uk india economy )
- A list of inventors killed by their own inventions
- (tags: invention death lists )
- Grids of defects make diamonds practical for quantum computing
- (tags: diamonds quantum computers )
- Can You Tell if These Still Life Objects Are Real or Rendered?
- (tags: cgi graphics art )
- New study reveals how nurse staffing levels link to patient outcomes
- (tags: healthcare )
- In defence of "Baby it's cold outside"
- (tags: music history society )
- Solar Now Produces a Better Energy Return on Investment Than Oil
- (tags: solarpower oil energy economics )
- Disney breaks $7bn global box office record for 2016 (Disney + Star Wars + Marvel = Ka-Ching!)
- (tags: money Disney movies marvel StarWars )
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Interesting Links for 19-03-2016
- Edinburgh to London train journey time to be cut to four hours
- (tags: transport trains edinburgh london uk )
- Toxic relationship habits most people think are normal
- (tags: relationships )
- Healthy relationship habits most people think are toxic
- (tags: relationships )
- Scottish bus firms in smart ticketing pledge
- (tags: transport buses scotland )
- Your brain might be hardwired for altruism
- (tags: altruism empathy psychology neuroscience )
- The surprising truth about inequality in the UK
- (tags: inequality uk )
- IDS loses legal challenge to keep Universal Credit problems secret
- (tags: politics welfare uk )
- Is Iain Duncan Smith’s resignation about disability cuts - or Europe?
- (tags: politics uk welfare europe )
- I want this t-shirt
- (tags: t-shirts StarWars viaJohnCoxon )
- 'Deadpool' used way more CGI than you probably think it did
- (tags: movies cgi video marvel )
- What does Donald Trump's book tell us about him?
- (tags: psychology review politics usa )
- How Many Decimals of Pi Does NASA Really Need?
- (tags: mathematics NASA space )
- "An Experimental Autism Treatment Cost Me My Marriage"
- (tags: autism relationships emotion )
- Surge in renewable energy stalls world greenhouse gas emissions
- (tags: renewables gas energy electricity co2 )
- Dixyslea
- (tags: reading brain viaElfy )
Interesting Links for 26-01-2016
- UK Rail Travel, Station Usage 1997-2015 (in a pretty map)
- Get your “Kylo Stabbed First” T-shirts!
- What Labour must do to win in 2020: an electoral reform pact
- Middle class English people acting a bit Scottish
- World's Oldest Torrent Is Still Being Shared After 4,419 Days
- 5 minutes of unnarrated, shot-by-shot breakdowns of the CGI in the Force Awakens.
- Steven Moffat has produced some great Doctor Who. So how did he become so hated?
- Sadly, doesn't touch on "The actual writing hasn't been that great for a few seasons, with a few exceptions".
- MSPs to debate bid to legalise incest between consenting adults
- FactCheck: has Google got a good deal from the taxman?
- Netflix overtakes broadcast TV for UK kids. YouTube dominates.
- Why do people put on differing amounts of weight?
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Interesting Links for 12-08-2015
- 3 Cost Effective CGI Techniques (The "Attila The Hun" video is particularly impressive)
- Do the Scots really understand English politics?
- Malcolm Muggeridge's life was fascinating. (Seriously, this review of his autobiography is well worth reading)
- Brain signature that predicts human emotions discovered
- Gene Therapy Makes Near-Blind Patients See by Strengthening Neural Connections
- Attack on the pentagon results in discovery of new mathematical tile
- Edinburgh's new council chief on trams, taxes, and cost-cutting
- The fraudsters who were insider trading on _every_ company
- How DuPont covered up the hideously toxic chemicals it was covering its workers with (and leaking into rivers)
- Amnesty International supports the full decriminalization of all aspects of consensual sex work.
- Saturated fats are not bad for your heart (trans fats are though)