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2024-01-30 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 30-01-2024

1. Dark Souls - Walking through memories (a video I bumped into, and want to be able to find again later)
(tags:games video memory )
2. The Illusionist: The Mind-Bending Installations of Artist Felice Varini
(tags:art optical_illusion )
3. Functional 16-bit CPU built and runs in Excel, 3Hz processor includes 128KB of RAM, 16-color display, and a custom assembly language | Tom's Hardware
(tags:excel computer impressive viaSwampers )
4. The Northern Irish government is fascinating and dysfunctional - the report here on how to reform it is very interesting (pages 33-42)
(tags:NorthernIreland politics government )
5. A fascinating and intriguing look behind the scenes of the audio version of Sandman
(tags:sandman audio neilgaiman )
6. A simple, cheap drug could prevent STIs. So why isn't the NHS providing it?
(tags:medicine sex infection disease NHS OhForFucksSake )
7. 'Tidal wave' of sex abuse in music industry, MPs told
(tags:abuse women UK music OhForFucksSake )
8. Patients say keto helps with their mental illness. Science is racing to understand why
(tags:diet health mentalhealth )
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2023-10-24 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 24-10-2023

1. A checklist for managers
(tags:management advice lists )
2. Excel now lets you disable its "helpful" turning of letter/number combinations into dates.
(tags:date excel GoodNews )
3. Four of the five developers for the original Mario game worked on the most recent one
(tags:Mario games development history )
4. The pandemic's true death toll (around 27m people. So far.)
(tags:Pandemic death )
5. The UK criminal justice system has now failed
(tags:UK law epicfail austerity )
6. Edinburgh University failing over sexual misconduct complaints
(tags:Edinburgh university abuse sex )
7. UK Government using AI to decide on benefits and driving licences
(tags:ai OhForFucksSake law government uk )
8. 'Failure to act' on suicide website linked to 50 UK deaths
(tags:suicide uk web )
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2022-12-04 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 04-12-2022

1. Who wants to give a tummy rub to a cute little kitty?
(tags:cats video cute leopard )
2. What did Susan Hussey say? Royal race row explained (with transcript)
(tags:racism UK royalty )
3. Twitter now reinstating neo-nazis
(tags:ElonMusk Nazis Twitter OhForFucksSake )
4. "I Was Wrong About Mastodon" (and moderation and scaling)
(tags:mastodon socialnetworking )
5. Labour's manipulation of selection contests reveals its emptiness of purpose
(tags:labour OhForFucksSake )
6. The Excel World Championship Is the Internet at Its Best
(tags:Excel spreadsheet competition )
7. EU Leader Uses Mastodon to Tell Elon Musk How Twitter Needs to Be Regulated
(tags:Twitter Mastodon regulation Europe ElonMusk )
8. How British colonialism killed 100 million Indians in 40 years
(tags:UK India )
9. 53% of Britons are non-religious. Who are they and what do they believe?
(tags:religion UK atheism society )
10. Learning to play the piano improves people's ability to process sights and sounds
(tags:piano music psychology )
11. Female monkeys prioritise friends and actively reduce social circle as they age
(tags:monkey friendship family )
12. UK to let safety laws lapse. Because sovereignty.
(tags:safety UK Europe law OhForFucksSake )
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2020-10-06 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 06-10-2020

On Vaccinations Programmes and Normality in September 2021
(tags:vaccination pandemic )
What should the democrats do if they win the election?
(tags:USA politics )
Shock and despair follow revelations that Test and Trace system is being run on Excel
(tags:Excel spreadsheet pandemic OhForFucksSake incompetence )
Boris Johnson encourages people to congregate indoors for the good of the economy
(tags:cinema BorisJohnson pandemic OhForFucksSake )
Lawrence Fox is backed by some deeply unpleasant people with a lot of media knowledge
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1310953494799626240.html
(tags:fascism racism UK media politics )
Details on what went wrong with the Excel/Track and Trace fiasco
"The problem is that the PHE developers picked an old file format to do this - known as XLS. As a consequence, each template could handle only about 65,000 rows of data rather than the one million-plus rows that Excel is actually capable of."
(tags:fail Excel programming )
People Who Want To Be More Empathic May Also Develop "Liberal" Moral Values
(tags:politics morals empathy psychology )
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2020-05-28 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 28-05-2020

This is an *excellent* summary of the Cummings situation
(tags:politics UK conservatives OhForFucksSake pandemic )
Eden Project to explore Dundee as new tourist attraction venue
(tags:nature scotland )
We aren't going to get a deal with the EU
(tags:europe uk doom )
People want to know why a disgraced TalkTalk CEO is leading the government's testing programme
(tags:OhForFucksSake UK pandemic )
Boris Johnson in "unaware of how awful the Conservatives are" shock
(tags:conservatives OhForFucksSake BorisJohnson immigration )
Government refusing to sign up to Brexit safeguards so it can change Human Rights Act, Gove admits
(tags:UK Europe rights )
Spreadsheet poetry
(tags:poetry excel spreadsheet )
Doing Business In Japan (utterly fascinating)
(tags:business society japan )
Why are Polynesians so big and strong?
(tags:Polynesia humans genetics bodies )
Wuhan swabs 9 million people, tests 6.5 million for COVID-19 in 10 days
(tags:china pandemic impressive )
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2018-08-20 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 20-08-2018

Jewish Labour members accuse party leaders of trying to censor conference antisemitism training
(tags: Jews labour )
What do Nazis look like?
(tags: nazis usa history Germany )
Second-hand smoke scientist points out terrible reporting of his findings
(tags: science research journalism fail )
"The University of Liverpool also told Dr Kay Inckle that it might be considered “reasonable” for her to go down stairs on her bottom in some circumstances rather than be timetabled into ground floor or fully accessible rooms."
(tags: disability academia uk OhForFucksSake )
New Evidence Contradicts Theory That Easter Island Society Collapsed
(tags: EasterIsland )
One in five genetics papers contains errors thanks to Microsoft Excel
(tags: excel genetics fail )
What the world can learn about equality from the Nordics
(tags: inequality success economics society Norway Sweden Denmark Finland scandinavia )
This is how an otter tells you it wants to be stroked.
(tags: otters cute video )
Day to Night to Day (long exposure timelapse photography is one of my favourite things)
(tags: timelapse viaSwampers video )
This is definitely the worst team building exercise ever
(tags: work awful wtf teams )
A list of companies moving jobs out of the UK because of Brexit
(tags: uk Europe jobs doom )
Prison: A thought experiment
(tags: prison )
A fascinating introduction to different kinds of black hair (and some history)
(tags: hair race )
The Scientists Who Starved to Death Surrounded By Food
(tags: Russia food wwii research )
Contrary to popular psychological theory, believers in free will were no more generous or honest
(tags: FreeWill psychology )
Vietnam going solar after nuclear power plants shelved
(tags: solarpower vietnam )
The world's first floating farm making waves in Rotterdam
(tags: netherlands farming ocean )
Boris Johnson's Facebook page hosts hundreds of Islamophobic comments after burqa row
(tags: islam Conservatives racism facebook )
US co-pay costs for drugs can be massively higher than just buying them direct.
(tags: medication usa healthcare insurance OhForFucksSake )
I am seriously starting to think that Trump has dementia
(tags: usa politics wtf )
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2018-04-24 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 24-04-2018

Software Testing Anti-patterns
(tags: software testing )
My new favourite sound effects are "Clong doying whizz" and "Standard orgy with smashing glass, screams, footsteps and whipping sounds"
Who'd want a non-standard orgy?
(tags: sound bbc ViaDrCross )
The last living human link to the 19th century is gone
(tags: history humans death )
Excel pivot table data leak leads to £120k fine for London council
(tags: privacy law excel )
US soldier gets world's first penis and scrotum transplant
(tags: penis organdonor surgery )
Why a universal plastic straw ban is actually bad for people with disabilities
(tags: disability plastic )
Monkey-selfie lawsuit finally ends: Court affirms adorable macaque can’t sue
(tags: photography copyright monkey )
Golf club apologizes for calling cops on black women members
(tags: golf women racism usa OhForFucksSake )
I will be so proud of my kid if she does this
(tags: children science teeth )
The Five Types Of Nicolas Cage Movies
(tags: movies acting )
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2018-01-05 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 05-01-2018

The Transgender Scientist Who Changed Our Understanding of the Brain
(tags: brain lgbt research viaSwampers )
HDR Photography in Microsoft Excel?! (amazing, funny, talk. With maths)
(tags: photography excel video funny Technology )
Get a grip, get a smartphone, and move into the 21st century
(tags: technology thefuture phones )
U.S. to End Policy That Let Legal Pot Flourish
(tags: usa marijuana legalisation OhForFucksSake )
'Would you be willing?': words to turn a conversation around (and those to avoid)
(tags: psychology language communication viaFrancescaElston )
Aversion to holes driven by disgust, not fear
(tags: fear emotion disgust psychology )
Eating more foods with choline during pregnancy could boost baby’s brain
(tags: babies brain food )
Having science students do lab work doesn't actually teach them anything
(tags: education science )
Rosamund Pike says actors won't play second fiddle to actresses
(tags: acting Hollywood movies gender )
HBO will make Game of Thrones fans wait until 2019 for final season
(tags: gameofthrones tv thefuture )
Demolition complete at St James Centre site
(tags: Edinburgh construction architecture )
Stop asking ‘what about men?’
(tags: gender society )
'Swedish death cleaning' is the new decluttering trend
(tags: death cleanliness )
New measurement confirms: The ozone is coming back
(tags: environment GoodNews )
SyFy Announces Nightflyers (based on the GRRM novella)
(tags: scifi tv GeorgeRRMartin )
Vienna ‘New Year’s Baby’ Greeted First With Hate, Then Hearts
(tags: austria racism )
Mapping technique finds links between brain connections and IQ
(tags: IQ intelligence brain )
The common ancestor of all humans lived about 3,600 years ago
(tags: history humans genetics )
"My ten hour white noise video now has five copyright claims!"
(tags: copyright youtube OhForFucksSake )
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2013-11-14 11:00 am
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