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Interesting Links for 25-04-2023
Apr. 25th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. MouthPad - control your device with your tongue!
- (tags:disability Technology )
- 2. Dreamwidth access in Russia: please stay safe!
- (tags:dreamwidth russia )
- 3. Why Russian and Ukrainian activism is not mutually exclusive
- (tags:russia ukraine )
- 4. The Russian Erotic Equine Space Mystery!
- (tags:space horses art mysteries comic )
- 5. Snuggle Pupping, and how WW1 led the USA into a spiral of European depravity
- (tags:sex society history Europe USA wwi )
- 6. Clock, Shakespeare's Sonnet 12, read by Neil Gaiman and set to a haunting musical backdrop by Australia's FourPlay String Quarte
- (tags:neilgaiman music video shakespeare clock )
- 7. Bilingualism Affords No General Cognitive Advantages
- (tags:language Intelligence psychology )
- 8. How realistic is sudden exponential AI takeoff?
- (tags:ai singularity )
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Links for 21/11/2022
Nov. 21st, 2022 02:41 pm- 1. Literature Clock
- (tags:clock time quotes viaSwampers )
- 2. Viking golems and their links to Judaism
- (tags:Viking Jews history viaDanielDWilliam )
- 3. Elon Musk reinstates Donald Trump's Twitter account after users vote 52%-48% to bring him back
- (tags:Twitter )
- 4. NHS chiefs in Scotland discuss having wealthy pay for treatment
- (tags:money NHS Doom austerity )
Interesting Links for 25-02-2018
Feb. 25th, 2018 12:00 pm- Bus ban on Edinburgh's North Bridge unless £22m repairs carried out
- (tags: transport Edinburgh bridge buses )
- Facing discussion of the 'Words for “yes” in Romance languages' article from yesterday
- (tags: language history )
- 10,000 year clock gets lowered into Texan mountain
- (tags: thefuture USA clock time )
- How to Get Wyoming Wind to California, and Cut 80% of U.S. Carbon Emissions
- (tags: electricity infrastructure usa )
- Stonewall quits Pride in London over failure to involve black and ethnic minority communities
- (tags: lgbt racism uk london )
- Home Office contractors cuffed detained migrants inside coach on fire
- (tags: immigration uk OhForFucksSake )
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- ohforfuckssake,
- racism,
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Interesting Links for 23-01-2016
Jan. 23rd, 2016 12:00 pm- I signed the petition to scrap the £35k threshold for non-EU citizens settling in the UK. And you should too.
- Open Carry laws backfire in Texas
- 12 years in 15 seconds: Aligning and condensing a self-portrait time-lapse
- The future of “hardcore” games on mobile
- 5 alarm clocks that are either genius or borderline sadistic
- Why was most of the Earth’s coal made all at once?
- Gillian Anderson Initially Offered Half of David Duchovny’s Pay for The X-Files Revival
- Steven Moffat quits Doctor Who to be replaced by Chris Chibnall in 2018
- Undercover Boss: Starkiller Base Behind The Scenes
- The Racial Inequality of Sleep
- Privilege and inequality in Silicon Valley - Why few successful startup founders grew up desperately poor
- Sleeping With A Weighted Blanket Improves Your Mental Health
- Wherein an ogre discovers what it's like to be Good.
- Doctor Who fans ‘not over-reacting’ by burning BBC to ground
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Interesting Links for 30-04-2015
Apr. 30th, 2015 12:00 pm- A radical experiment with micropayments in journalism, 365 days later
- Edinburgh Picture House Wetherspoons super pub plan approved
- A French Muslim girl was kicked out of class because her skirt was too long
- List of scandals with "-gate" suffix
- How Bitcoin is Disrupting Argentina’s Economy
- Pathological gamblers see patterns where there are none
- Tax cuts for middle, lower income Americans boost economy while tax breaks for the rich do little to help
- How clocks turn constant movement into intermittent movement
- DC's methods of creating a movie franchise seem like a disastrous mess.
- Cheery Robot Helps Kids Cope With Pain During Hospital Procedures
- Doctors and patients disagree wildly over which psychiatric drugs are best.
- You haven't lived until you've heard trance music played on the accordion
- The internet of stupid things
- Very basic politics #1: three ways to deal with the deficit
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Interesting Links for 11-09-2014
Sep. 11th, 2014 12:00 pm- Chat logs show how 4chan users created #GamerGate controversy
- What Independence Referendum polls are still to come?
- Helsinki's ambitious plan to make car ownership pointless in 10 years
- The end of the Apple spectacle
- FactCheck: Is an #indyref yes vote forever?
- The Bézier Clock is pretty neat
- A chunk of the Sierra Nevada caught fracturing on video
- With genetic testing, I gave my parents the gift of divorce
- The moment a man enlists in the US armed forces, his chances of being sexually assaulted increase by a factor of ten.
- I Was the Weirdest Person at BronyCon 2014
- Stonehenge was accompanied by 17 neighbouring shrines
- The evidence that Beethoven was black is...lacking
- U2’s new album is showing up on your iPhone whether you want it or not
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Interesting Links for 16-01-2014
Jan. 16th, 2014 11:00 am- Why is a minute divided into 60 seconds, an hour into 60 minutes, yet there are only 24 hours in a day?
- An envy-free cake-division protocol.
- Why novellists shouldn't chase the Next Big Thing
- Ampere to get rational redefinition
- How to complain about mobile filtering over-blocking
- Why the food in the British hugh street is better than its European equivalents
- The NHS and HMRC are both going to miss the April deadline for getting off of XP.
- Why You Make Bad Decisions When You're Attracted to Someone
- 95 Conservative MPs want out of Europe. 100 want to reform it. I wonder what the rest want.
- The majority of Moffat's Dr Who scripts.
- Alan Rickman is awesome
- Constructing a virtual creature out of muscle and bone, and then letting it learn how to walk. Damned impressive.
- There's going to be a romantic remake of 1984. I adore the idea.
- 117 Buffyverse Characters, Ranked From Worst To Best
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Interesting Links for 10-09-2012
Sep. 10th, 2012 12:00 pm- Fascinating discussion of narrative in game with one of the people behind Portal and Portal 2.
- Amanda Palmer asks the worst thing that's happened in your bedroom. There are many answers.
- On Canon, Dr Who, and the geekish tendency to fence in stories
260th
- Meet Dan Spitz, Anthrax Guitarist Turned Master Watchmaker
- 5 True Stories Cut from Movies for Being Too Unrealistic
- Every time I read about Valve I want to work there more...
- Heterogeneous parallel programming - an explanation for laypeople
- NHS watchdog claimed that whistleblower Kay Sheldon was mentally ill
- DRAGONCON 2012 - Gangnam Style Music Video. Oh, the costumes.
- The dark secret of arcade crane games: 17 times out of 18, you will lose
- The Tragedy of the European Union and How to Resolve It
- A virus that kills cancer: languishing due to lack of £1m for further testing
- Mischief Managed: the Harry Potter Retrospective - the whole series in 13 minutes.
Cue people complaining that their favourite moment wasn't in there.
- 34.5% of US Internet Population not using Facebook/Twitter - a further 31% won't use them to sign in.
- The fire-retardant in your sofa is probably giving you cancer. And not preventing fires.
- How To See The Future (If you are not _blown away_ by the present day, you are not paying attention)
- A Terrifying Way to Discipline Children (What century are these people living in???)
- Making people log in to unsubscribe from email is against Federal Law
- Okay, why did nobody tell me of "Pythagosaurus"? Bill Bailey, maths _and_dinosaurs?
- 60% of MSPs believe that drug policy isn't working
- The Green Party has just committed to the right of workers to buy out companies and turn them into co-ops.
- New research reveals tap water could explain some of Scotland's liver-disease problems.
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Interesting Links for 18-02-2012
Feb. 18th, 2012 11:00 am- Nevada approves regulations for self-driving cars
- Catholic church to lose its exemption on building tax (for non-religious buildings)
- The Freedom Of Information Act is under attack for costing too much money. Here's 10 ways to make it cheaper...
- Google Circumvents Safari Privacy Protections
- Why Atlassian are abandoning the Mac App Store.
- The man who hears colour - not synesthesia, but a colour-blind man who uses technology to convert colour to sound.
- How Companies Learn Your Secrets - and can sometimes tell you're pregnant before your closest friends and family.
- This is exactly the kind of politics I hate
I mean, do they even know that there are real people out there represented by them? Or are they just playing bloody stupid petty games to make themselves feel good?
- David Cameron challenged on independence offer
- How to tell HTML from HTML5
- Shipwreck hunters stumble across mysterious find. Aliens. Bound to be aliens.
- Did You Hear We Got Osama? Why you should stop reading news.
And also this link post. Go out and do something interesting instead.
- Time In The 10,000-Year Clock.
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