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Interesting Links for 22-02-2025
Feb. 22nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. HP decided to make every phone customer wait 15 minutes before talking to them. And was then forced to backtrack.
- (tags:hp wtf customerservice OhForFucksSake phones )
- 2. A Delta pilot tried to raise safety issues. They accused her of being bipolar. It took years in the courts to prove her right.
- (tags:mentalhealth safety airplanes OhForFucksSake usa )
- 3. Exhausted Friends Slowly Realize They Were Playing Board Game Wrong Entire 6 Hours
- (tags:games funny )
- 4. The Imperial March but it's coming from Vader's chest control panel
- (tags:StarWars music funny video )
- 5. What counselling training is like for an autistic person
- (tags:LGBT transgender autism counselling )
- 6. Five Oddly, Unexpectedly Upbeat Works of SFF
- (tags:scifi doom hope )
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Interesting Links for 20-01-2025
Jan. 20th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Julia Donaldson supplants JK Rowling to become the UK's all-time top author by volume
- (tags:uk publishing books )
- 2. Under new law, cops bust famous cartoonist for AI-generated child sex abuse images
- (tags:sex children ai law USA )
- 3. Don't fly with Lufthansa
- (tags:flying customerservice fail )
- 4. US police are arresting the wrong people because a facial recognition program picked them off a list.
- (tags:faces recognition police OhForFucksSake )
- 5. The Undocumented Immigrant Offending Rate Is Lower Than The U.S.-Born Citizen Rate
- (tags:usa crime immigration )
- 6. The Gaza war has nurtured more hate than any conflict since 1945
- (tags:gaza palestine usa israel )
- 7. Hulu is now making people answer a question from an advertisement to continue watching.
- (tags:tv advertising OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 18-09-2022
Sep. 18th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Probably the best customer service email in the history of mankind
- (tags:bakery food customerservice funny )
- 2. Research into who is in The Queue
- (tags:Queen death polls )
- 3. If we don't get rid of the monarchy then can we at least get rid of its privileges?
- (tags:monarchy law UK )
- 4. Labour MP Clive Lewis breaks ranks to criticise monarchist lies
- (tags:monarchy politics uk )
- 5. Women's software contributions are accepted more often. Unless people can tell that they're from women
- (tags:gender bias software )
- 6. American Dark Money, the Mercers and the Conservative Party: A Network of Influence
- (tags:money conservatives )
- 7. Border conflict between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. I wonder about general destabilisation in the region
- (tags:viaDanielDWilliam )
- 8. 18 incredible Edinburgh buildings we can't believe were demolished
- (tags:Edinburgh history architecture viaDanielDWilliam )
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Interesting Links for 15-07-2019
Jul. 15th, 2019 12:00 pm- Giant balloons that deflate into dresses
- (tags:clothing balloon video awesome )
- How Scottish Labour is moving towards constitutional radicalism
- (tags:scotland labour politics reform viaDanielDWilliam )
- 40% of people meet their partner online
- (tags:relationships internet )
- chefs and restaurateurs on their most memorable customers
- (tags:restaurant customerservice )
- Alternative theory of gravity makes a nearly testable prediction
- (tags:physics )
- Paths of Star Wars
- (tags:StarWars visualisation )
- The lawsuit accusing Trump of raping a 13-year-old girl, explained
- (tags:rape usa politics republicans )
- What you think about landfill and recycling is probably totally wrong
- (tags:environment recycling waste viaCipherGoth )
- Trump, Farage, Johnson, Darroch - what's going on?
- (tags:UK Europe USA politics diplomacy )
- Six of the most prominent activists during the Ferguson riots have all been found burned to death in their cars.
- (tags:racism murder USA protests )
- "10x engineers": Stereotypes and research
- (tags:programming efficiency )
- Edinburgh Tattoo exploits musicians by asking them to play with no pay
- (tags:Edinburgh music OhForFucksSake )
- Horribly distressing thread about the Rwandan genocide (with photos) by the child of aid workers
- (tags:genocide rwanda history )
- Edinburgh people - stop burning holes in the Meadows!
- (tags:Edinburgh fire OhForFucksSake )
- Alan Turing to feature on new £50 note
- (tags:lgbt currency uk computers history wwii )
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Interesting Links for 06-10-2016
Oct. 6th, 2016 12:56 pm- Failed replication shows literary fiction doesn't boost social cognition
- (tags: writing psychology fiction )
- Exercise releases hormone that helps shed, prevent fat
- (tags: exercise hormones fat weight )
- Cannabis users are less aware of their mistakes, and not good at creative thinking
- (tags: marijuana drugs creativity mistakes )
- Police use-of-force data is finally coming to light
- (tags: usa police data violence )
- It feels as though we learn better via our preferred learning style, but we don’t
- (tags: learning psychology )
- Is globalization bad for the global poor? This study ran an experiment to find out.
- (tags: globalization research economics )
- Big decision ahead? Just roll the dice
- (tags: decisions advice )
- Squad devs blast Kerbal Space Program studio for high crunch and low pay
- (tags: games pay business OhForFucksSake )
- The post-truth future is departing ever further from reality
- (tags: russia politics lies propaganda usa viaPatrickHadfield )
- When the eye of a hurricane goes directly over a weather buoy
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- Thailand's "Failed" Drug Policy Is Full Of Lessons For The Philippines
- (tags: politics drugs )
- The 13 things making me very angry right now
- (tags: politics uk )
- 11 Ideas Philosophers REFUSE To Take Seriously (#8 is my favorite)
- (tags: lists funny philosophy satire feminism )
- What is the Conservative Party actually for?
- (tags: Conservatives politics uk )
- RBS, NatWest and SEB banks employ virtual staff
- (tags: automation customerservice banking )
- 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch' worse than expected
- (tags: ocean waste )
- Pleasant family leisure at home may satisfy families more than fun together elsewhere
- (tags: family psychology relationships )
- Being kind to others does make you slightly happier
- (tags: psychology happiness )
- Understanding of norms: Children overeagerly seeking social rules
- (tags: society rules children psychology )
- Replacing the Sacred, Spherical Cows of Physics
- (tags: physics )
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Interesting Links for 09-01-2016
Jan. 9th, 2016 12:00 pm- How MSG Got A Bad Rap (Flawed Science And Xenophobia)
- How Would You Respond If Asked: ‘What Time is the 3 o’clock Parade?’
- Super Mario Watchmen cosplay crossover
- DWP fit-to-work assessments cost more money than they save
- What to do when men offer to buy you a drink
- In which JK Rowling gets her revenge on Stephen Fry
- A short story. Wherein two witches are promised the same child
- Cartoon Network UK defends censoring Steven Universe's 'gay' content
- Half-Life 1 & 2 writer answers fan’s HL3 question by announcing retirement
- Japan Keeps The Defunct Kami-Shirataki Train Station Open for Just One High-School Girl
- Anscombe's quartet - a very simple, visual, explanation of how easy it is to mislead with data
- (And the importance of visualising it)
- The wisdom of Uncle Iroh
- Beware the Straight Spouse Network
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- viasteer,
- watchmen,
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Interesting Links for 30-11-2014
Nov. 30th, 2014 11:00 am- John Lewis: incompetent, unresponsive and dishonest
- 11 Film Posters Improved By Mark Kermode's Scathing Reviews
- Samuel Delany's original review of the first Star Wars movie
- Good interview with Lee Pace on Battle of the Five Armies (and mention of "The Fall")
- Domestic Bliss - I really liked these dark takes on suburban inner life
- Is Jurassic World Violating The UN Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna?
- 27 Shocking And Unexpected Facts You Learn In Your Twenties
- How One Woman's 14-Hour Search for the End of TGI Friday's Endless Appetizers Brought Her To The Brink Of Madness
- The most positive vision of the future I've seen in quite some time
Interesting Links for 24-08-2014
Aug. 24th, 2014 12:00 pm- Taking time off from electronic screens makes you better at reading emotions
- When Nazi intelligence deliberately sabotaged Hitler's plans - by sending rubbish spies to the UK
- One lecturer's shadow syllabus
- Samsung's hijacks the ALS challenge to sell phones. FFS
- The Look Of Funny: How The Onion's Art Department Works
- McConaughey Eyed to Play the Lead Villain in Adaptation of Stephen King's 'The Stand'
- Warren Ellis on the cultural institution, and science-fictional artefact, that is Doctor Who
- Darknet drug markets kept alive by great customer service
- Lessons learned about warfare from teaching automota to fight
- The complicated career of Frank Miller
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- stephen_king,
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- theonion,
- uk,
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- warrenellis,
- wwii
Interesting Links for 15-08-2014
Aug. 15th, 2014 12:00 pm- Engineers turns metal into glass
- Hospital replaces heart valve - and place sit outside the heart
- Should holiday email be deleted?
- The British Library's exhibition on British comics has some odd omissions
- Want EE to answer your customer service call? Better pay them...
- It is fifty years since the UK last executed anyone
- Guy Proposes to Five Princesses (and Gastón) During Visit to Disney World
- Premier League warns about posting goal videos online
- A swarm of 1,000 tiny robots that cooperates to form pictures
- Fifty Swifties (Gloriously Terrible Puns)
- Hemp supercapacitors work as well as graphene
- I've long wanted to try a sensory deprivation tank. This makes me want to try it more
- Mmmmm, Edible Chocolate Lego
- You may recognise some of the adorbs new words added to the Oxford Dictionaries
- How Browsers Work: Behind the scenes of modern web browsers
- We're happier when we chat to strangers, but our instinct is to ignore them
- The most popular baby names are Amelia and Oliver
- The lines the West drew across the Middle East in 1916 are being rubbed away - it's time we faced up to that
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Interesting Links for 05-08-2014
Aug. 5th, 2014 12:00 pm- This pretty much sums up how I felt about "Guardians of the Galaxy"
- The stigma of being an atheist in the US
- How much more do programmers get paid (as a map - Bulgaria surprised me!)
- Hotel fines brides $500 for every bad review their guests post online
- Wikipedia link hidden by 'right to be forgotten'
- ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Easter Eggs, Trivia & References
- Scottish independence referendum debate: the drinking game!
- Comcast Confessions: why the cable guy is always late
- A review of tomorrow's Independence debate
- 'Guardians of the Galaxy' and the rise of post-plot cinema
- A brief, personal, memoir of WWI
- The Reluctantly Quantified Parent
- Robotic suit gives shipyard workers super strength
- What's the worst sentence to start a linguistically-themed novel with?
- Big Bang Theory cast reach deal, set to earn $1 million per 20 minutes of television
- The House of Lords has 774 members - and enough space for 230 of them
- Tumblr: Hashing Your Way to Handling 23,000 Blog Requests per Second
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Interesting Links for 08-04-2014
Apr. 8th, 2014 12:00 pm- Spider invasion prompts Mazda software fix (Now there's a bug I'm glad I don't have to deal with!)
- Classic album covers in Google Street View
- One of the best albums of the 90s is getting a reissue!
- Xbox co-funds first UK TV drama
- Yahoo Wants to Make Cable-Style TV Shows
- Here's What Happens When You Ask A Bunch Of Adults To Label Male And Female Reproductive Systems
- This is why I don't play MMOs by myself
- Monty Python and the Holy Game Of Thrones.
- The Edinburgh Filmhouse may be moving (about five minutes walk around the corner)
- 'Cool' London is dead, and the rich kids are to blame
- A friend of mine went to a fascinating talk on the security around the 50th anniversary Doctor Who
- Mortality risks of being overweight or obese are underestimated
- Oxytocin makes you lie - but only if it helps other people.
- Happy deathday Windows XP!
- How technology is killing customer service
- Judge says prosecutors should follow the law. Prosecutors revolt.
- Gambling addicts have a different pattern of brain activity, making them believe that they can always beat the odds
- EU VAT change for 2015 - Telecoms and services tax to be set at consumer's homeland rate
- EU court rules against requirement to keep data of telecom users
- Video games can make you violent (if you aren't very good at them)
- Scientists have found a protein that helps with gluten intolerance/coeliac (in mice)
- The less Americans know about Ukraine’s location, the more they want U.S. to intervene
- Nuclear bomb companies given multi-million pound get-out on accidents
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Interesting Links for 16-10-2013
Oct. 16th, 2013 12:00 pm- Native Speed on the Web - what's going on with making browsers _fast_?
- Netflix have the best customer service _ever_
- Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming
- 4 Things No One Tells You About Having OCD
- Math Gifs (explaining mathematical ideas through simple animations)
- UK must remain part of EU and lead drive for reform focusing on economic benefits, says manufacturing industry
- Very impressive augmented reality/virtual reality system
- A game theoretic approach to the toilet seat problem
- 60% of Americans want a third political party
- British citizens sent threatening ‘get out’ texts by Home Office
- The first-ever hashtag, @-reply and retweet, as Twitter users invented them
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Interesting Links for 13-06-2013
Jun. 13th, 2013 12:02 pm- The Salvation Army rejects and apologises for the Austrialian statement about wanting gay people dead.
- Meet Misty, the working dog who collects customers’ order forms and takes their credit cards
- New York sushi bar eliminates tipping, pays decent wages instead.
- How British immigration rules are tearing families apart
- ALIGNMENT CHART! Game of Thrones, Season Three
- The good things about Microsoft's E3 press conference (I laughed a lot)
- A replacement for the Voight Kampff test
- Warning: avoid LG products, their stocking and after sales repair service is shambolic
- There seem to be Russians laundering money through computer game economies
- Teaching children not to swear: The geeky way
- This is why I try to get to spiders before Julie does...
- Facebook now lets users include hashtags in posts. #facebook #tagging #hashtags #howquicklywillthisannoypeople
- Recent breakthroughs mean we are on the cusp of Big Graphene Solar Sails for crude interstellar missions
- Battlestar Galactica + retired naval destroyer = Best LARP ever!
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Interesting Links for 20-04-2013
Apr. 20th, 2013 12:00 pm- Germany tells Google to improve its customer service.
- Children who live in unreliable environments won't delay gratification - because they know they won't get it later.
- Girl Scouts to introduce game developer badge (Joining the Boy Scouts, who did so last month)
- Cezch ambassador releases statement confirming that the Czech Republic is not Chechnya
- Phillip Schofield took a pair of German prostitutes for lunch instead of watching the Berlin Wall being brought down.
- Have someone point at your pointer.
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Interesting Links for 14-01-2012
Jan. 14th, 2012 11:00 am- Circumventing the No-Fly list in thirty seconds
- Google stealing people's customers in Kenya. I hope it's just a local group fucking up.
- RF MEMS enables auto-tuning, single-radio, anti-death-grip smartphones.
- A checker to find out when Virgin will be doubling broadband in your area
- Paypal denies its own service exists, or that anyone there knows anything about it.
- The figures the media industries use to justify tougher laws are blatant lies.
- America's decade of terrorism? Try the 1970s
- Against assimilation
I'm not in favour of assimilation. I am against Culture.
