Interesting Links for 21-10-2021
Oct. 21st, 2021 12:00 pm- "i need a white guy"
- (tags:racism satire apps )
- The government let Covid rip through our care homes
- (tags:OldAge murder Pandemic lies government conservatives UK )
- Scientists create a wooden knife three times sharper than a steel blade
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- Is Halloween Pagan?
- (tags:Halloween history religion UK Scotland Ireland Christianity )
- Here's What We Know About Reports of Women Being Spiked With Needles in UK Clubs
- (tags:women injections assault uk )
- This is some very impressive camerawork!
- (tags:movies video impressive Cuba )
- New London to Edinburgh rail service to start
- (tags:London Edinburgh trains transport )
- COP26: Document leak reveals Saudi Arabia, Japan and Australia are among countries asking the UN to play down the need to move rapidly away from fossil fuels.
- (tags:OhForFucksSake globalwarming saudiarabia Japan Australia )
- Covid: Vaccines 90% effective at preventing Delta variant deaths
- (tags:vaccine Pandemic Scotland death )
- A massive object devastated Uranus a long time ago and it never fully recovered
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Interesting Links for 24-12-2014
Dec. 24th, 2014 11:00 am- Why America continues to be a segregated country
- Civil partnerships ban challenged by heterosexual couple
- Prosecute Torturers and Their Bosses
- “What’s up with the rag head?”: When I starred in a Facebook ad
- An Orangutan Has (Some) Human Rights, Argentine Court Rules
- BBC correspondent shows perils of reporting next to burning heroin
- How Virgin's cable system gets TV from their servers to your sofa.
- The Two-Income Trap (Bad in 2004. Fairly sure it hasn't gotten any better)
- The world is not falling apart: The trend lines reveal an increasingly peaceful period in history.
- Cards Against Humanity bought an Island and gave it away
- What terrible world would we have to live in, if people had to ask for consent before hugging each other?
- There's a volcano in East Indonesia which spews blue lava
- 11 writers who enter the public domain on January 1st. (Including Ian Fleming, in many countries)
- Cuba's 'offline internet' - passing around hard drives with terabytes of data
- The Underlying Assumption That's Necessary For Every Star Trek TNG Mission
- I Don't Know What to Do With Good White People
- As usual drug crackdowns are pointless and cause more damage.
- Father videos his kids coming down the stairs at Christmas. For 25 years.
- Top 10 Christmas viewing for people who hate Christmas
Interesting Links for 20-12-2014
Dec. 20th, 2014 11:00 am- How UKIP will do in the 2015 general election: a seat-by-seat prediction
- Hot tip - if your job revolves around entities of non-provable existence, DON'T DISS SANTA!
- Amazon is selling rape porn about Zoe Quinn. Hurrah for GamerGate!
- The Pope Just Helped the US and Cuba Make Up. What International Conflict Will He Fix Next?
- NASA just e-mailed a wrench to space
Interesting Links for 16-10-2012
Oct. 16th, 2012 12:00 pm- Santander are holding credit card numbers and names in cookies.
- Gendered Cookie-Monster costumes. Fucking ridiculous
- Cuban missile crisis: The other, secret one
- NHS Reform, the bill "no one voted for"? No, not really.
- On dating guides for geeks (The associated news post is also worth reading)
- Giant (inflatable) Monsters attack Toronto Bridge!
- Real life fractals, as seen on Google Earth
- Over the Decades, How States Have Shifted Their Voting Patterns
- Google Drive duplicating files in fairly common circumstances. (I'll stick to Dropbox for the moment)
- World's biggest geoengineering experiment violates UN rules (100 tonnes of iron sulphate into the pacific)