Interesting Links for 03-02-2024
Feb. 3rd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Labour finally ditches its £28bn green investment promise
- (tags:labour environment OhForFucksSake )
- 2. New Community Movie Update (script is done - Donald Glover is in)
- (tags:TV movies )
- 3. 2000AD's 'Rogue Trooper' is being made into an animated movie (made by Duncan Jones)
- (tags:movies 2000AD comics )
- 4. The Forgotten Lessons Of Infectious Disease Control
- (tags:disease history )
- 5. Each New Generation Finds It More Difficult to Surpass the Wealth of Their Parents.
- (tags:economics income generation doom )
- 6. Double yellow lines for two Edinburgh pavement parking ban streets
- (tags:Edinburgh cars )
- 7. A collection of Tory MPs offering "helpful" advice to people in poverty
- (tags:poverty conservatives OhForFucksSake )
- 8. The appendix plays a hidden role in gut health (I don't have one, which may explain a lot...)
- (tags:organs )
Interesting Links for 20-12-2023
Dec. 20th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. A tech guru is waging a war on major media outlets across three continents, hiring a “media assassin” law firm to kill stories connecting him to “hacks-for-hire” controversy.
- (tags:Technology hacking india censorship )
- 2. Animation vs. Physics
- (tags:physics animation video )
- 3. Baby It’s Cold Outside discourse is the same as Macbeth discourse.
- (tags:shakespeare funny )
- 4. NHS dentistry as we know it 'gone for good'
- (tags:UK NHS teeth OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Why MAs at Oxford had to swear an oath against a man who'd been dead for over 500 years.
- (tags:history university uk oxford murder viaPatrickHadfield )
- 6. New income tax band for people in Scotland earning over £75,000
- (tags:scotland income tax )
- 7. Teams are more creative when they're sitting next to each other
- (tags:creativity teams work psychology )
- 8. Iceland volcano erupts leaving 2.5-mile crack (with live video)
- (tags:iceland volcano )
- 9. Tom Bombadil and The Ring, a Christmas story
- (tags:Christmas lotr fanfic )
- 10. Lord of the Rings fan fiction writer tries to sue Amazon/Tolkien, gets countersued into a smoking crater
- (tags:copyright fanfic EpicStupidity lotr Tolkien )
- 11. A series of charts showing how awful the Conservatives are for the economy
- (tags:UK economy conservatives Labour )
- 12. Tory attempts to ban social transitioning in schools held up by lack of evidence showing it causes any problems
- (tags:LGBT law schools UK )
Interesting Links for 22-01-2018
Jan. 22nd, 2018 12:00 pm- Civilization V video game mod: Superintelligent AI
- (tags: AI civilisation games )
- Colliding neutron stars prove equality before the law of gravity
- (tags: physics space )
- The Sopranos to Blackadder – what are the definitive series of the best TV shows?
- (tags: tv reviews )
- The most impressive skiing I've ever seen
- (tags: impressive snow video )
- An important tip for talking to doctors
- (tags: doctors advice )
- Decriminalisation of prostitution vs legalisation
- (tags: sexwork prostitution law )
- The most defining TNG memo we have. Bob Justman suggests adding an android character, then mentions a little-known British actor named Patrick Stewart
- (tags: PatrickStewart StarTrek history )
- World’s top 1% earn 82% of wealth generated in 2017 (Top 1% = 720,000 Euros)
- (tags: wealth inequality income )
- Things that are not Islands (a collection of incorrect Magic cards)
- (tags: language wrong magic games art )
- Norway becomes first Scandinavian country to decriminalise drugs
- (tags: norway drugs GoodNews decriminalization )
- This is what happens to your brain and body when you check your smartphone in bed
- (tags: phones light sleep brain )
- Modern JavaScript Explained For Dinosaurs
- (tags: javascript development tools )
- Nighttime Long Exposures of Rotating Helicopter Blades
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- "I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site. Here’s how."
- (tags: Technology javascript web security )
Interesting Links for 23-06-2017
Jun. 23rd, 2017 12:00 pm- That Dire Helium Shortage? Vastly Inflated
- (tags: chemistry materials )
- Trial! By! Cake!
- (tags: history cake funny viaSwampers )
- The Pinkest Pink Versus the Blackest Black
- (tags: colour art Technology )
- Scotland may close its first train station for 31 years
- (tags: rail scotland transport )
- Workplace gender quotas weed out incompetent men and make businesses more efficient
- (tags: gender equality business politics )
- Scots ban on puppy tail docking relaxed after Holyrood vote
- (tags: dogs scotland )
- Helpful criticism from a true fan...
- (tags: fandom funny true comic )
- Where do you fit in? (Enter your income, discover how many people earn less than you)
- (tags: income )
- Gender Variance Around the World Over Time
- (tags: lgbt history )
- House cat challenges a lion
- (tags: lions cats video )
- Virtual reality controllers take another step forward
- (tags: VirtualReality ux )
- Brexit: Leave voter realises his fruit farms could collapse without EU migrant workers
- (tags: europe UK jobs farming OhForFucksSake )
- Ron Howard taking over as director of Star Wars Han Solo film
- (tags: StarWars movies )
- System detects, translates sarcasm on social media
- I bet it works *fantastically*
(tags: meaning language ) - If you build it, they will ride: pop-up bike lanes show that demand exists
- Oh to have a bike lane to work
(tags: bicycles transport ) - Finnish citizens given universal basic income report lower stress levels and greater incentive to work
- (tags: GuaranteedIncome finland GoodNews )
- Teenage boys wear skirts to school to protest against 'no shorts' policy
- (tags: clothing heat gender )
- New Hampshire Accidentally Approved A Bill Allowing Pregnant Women To Commit Murder
- (tags: law women pregnancy usa murder )
- Taylor Swift makes $200,000 per week since returning to Spotify
- (tags: money spotify streaming music )
- UN vote backing Chagos Islands a blow for UK
- (tags: uk law unitednations )
Interesting Links for 11-01-2017
Jan. 11th, 2017 12:00 pm- On Maximum Wages and Inequality
- (tags: wages inequality economics income )
- Do any other nations enjoy understatement as much as the British do?
- (tags: uk language society funny )
- This pretty-much sums up my position on philosophy and meaning
- (tags: philosophy life )
- A lot of well-meaning people don’t understand single-payer healthcare
- (tags: healthcare )
- People are rubbish at noticing that white people are white
- Of course, they're rubbish at noticing how many legs they have too.
But then only 62% of Americans are white, and a lot more have two legs.
(tags: race ) - GRRM makes tiny announcement about the next book
- (tags: GeorgeRRMartin )
- Americans are happier with inequality than Norwegians
- (tags: inequality norway usa psychology )
- Illumina wants to sequence your whole genome for $100
- (tags: genetics Technology )
- Equivocating feels less bad than lying but will cost you in the long run
- (tags: lying psychology )
- Bosses' bizarre excuses for failing to pay minimum wage
- (tags: uk minimumwage )
Interesting Links for 29-04-2015
Apr. 29th, 2015 12:00 pm- IFS: Households can expect lower incomes, whoever wins the election
- A very detailed look at the constitution on who gets to run the country in the case of a hung parliament
- Childhood bullying causes worse long-term mental health problems than maltreatment by adults
- Dammit, I missed Moehanga day!
- Asking for help on tech forums
- Eugenics isn't so bad!
- 21 grams: In defence of the human ashes dildo
- Bye Bye Labour (One of the most astute political analyses I've read in recent times)
- British ettiquette - if a wild animal joins the queue then you queue behind it.
- The PancakeBot Will Print Your Pancakes For Breakfast, In Any Shape You Can Draw
- What songs start well, and then disappoint?
- The Greek God Family Tree
- Lake Michigan is So Clear Right Now its Shipwrecks Are Visible From the Ai
- Some amazing shots of photographers getting the perfect shot. (and running away from a bear)
- DC Comics - screwing creators over again
- Everything you need to know about writing in two minutes and eleven seconds
- On love, liberty, equal marrriage, and Doctor Who scarves
- People are overly optimistic about the benefits of optimism
- Some thoughts on the Conservative proposal to legislate to stop tax rises
- What is the hardest language to learn?
- Large New Survey Tracks Telomere Length and Mortality
- An army of abusers, started by a stalker - The Story Behind GamerGate
Interesting Links for 25-11-2014
Nov. 25th, 2014 11:00 am- Probably my favourite "Unknown Pleasures" T-shirt
- Alert: New Anti-Porn Censorship Law to Arrive 1st December
- The 3-Word Tweet That Cost a Politician Her Job
- Are nurses getting 1% pay rises or 4% pay rises?
- NASA Will Pays You To Lie In Bed - For Science!
- Don't look out for terrorists, look out for heart attack victims
- The absolute truth about programming
- How Wrong Are You About Tuition Fees?
- Gates Foundation to require immediate free access for journal articles
- What I Learned From Building An App For Low-Income Americans
- Commentary By Howard Zinn And Noam Chomsky, For The Fellowship Of The Ring
- What you learn when you talk to boys and girls about masculinity and society
- Amazon to deliver to customers via local post offices
Interesting Links for 19-04-2013
Apr. 19th, 2013 12:00 pm- This does a pretty good job of summing up my ideology
- Are you a woman expert? Get your name on this list, to stop journalists saying "We couldn't find a woman expert"!
- Mark Ruffalo approves of Stark/Banner fic.
- Nestlé chairman says water is not a human right
- Where are all the right-wing stand-ups?
- Light drinking is not harmful to babies (in utero, that is. No giving them beer.)
- That moment when you've spent $40,000 on learning something you could have learned for $100
- The True Cost of the Royal Family Explained
- A duckling being chased by a cat dressed as a shark riding a roomba.
- Book reviews in animated GIF form. I really liked War & Peace.
Oooh, and We Need to Talk About Kevin.
- Nine Absurd Ideas for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (That Were Actually Considered)
- DC abandons their QA column after fans actually ask questions.
- Joss Whedon Reflects On What Went Wrong With ALIEN: RESURRECTION
- Undeniable Proof That "The Walking Dead" And "Toy Story" Have The Exact Same Plot
- What different breeds of dogs look like in their first 3 weeks of life. I WANT A PUPPY.
- The Grad Student Who Shook The Global Austerity Movement
- What happened when Canada tried a citizen's income
Interesting Links for 11-04-2013
Apr. 11th, 2013 12:00 pm- DC Introduces First Transgender Character in Mainstream Comics
- Margaret Thatcher, hero of British comedy
- Syfy prepping Ringworld and Childhood's End miniseries.
- Apple not the villain in gay sex comic book ban
- Scotland to spent £7.7m to cut re-offending
- Can someone explain Haskell's wager to me?
- 4 graphs on Thatcher’s legacy: a richer but more unequal nation.
- Five biggest EU states agree information exchange to tackle tax evasion
- A non-mathematical explanation of one way functions (this is how your password is kept safe)
- Schrödinger's and outside-the-box naming
- Don't Hate, Donate: Be the society Thatcher said didn't exist
Interesting Links for 10-10-2012
Oct. 10th, 2012 12:00 pm- The Greek message for Angela Merkel
- 50 Years of LED Technology
- Does the computer mouse face extinction? (Not this week)
- Could Fast Food Robots Steal McJobs?
- More people being jailed for jokes. I am hoping that this will be sorted by the CPS guidance.
- “Dead Merchandise” a terrifying tale of advertising gone mad.
- 'Slut dropping' and 'Pimps and Hoes' - the sexual politics of freshers'
- Conservative conference: Victims to choose punishments. (Possibly the stupidest idea I have heard recently)
- Why do we behave so oddly in lifts?
- When you're told how ignorant the general public is - you're probably believing absolute rubbish.
- An alternative to welfare: Citizen's Income (I don't think it quite adds up, but I wish it did)
- The Humble eBook Bundle (pay what you want and help charity) Scalzi, Doctorow, Gaiman, and more.
- Top Seven Errors President Obama has made on the Middle East
- Infographic: the history of the British government
- The most awesome swing in the world
- Extreme Weather Photo Contest Winners
- New co-operatives produce unlikely political bed-fellows
- We are getting close to the smallest size we can make transistors
Interesting Links for 19-09-2012
Sep. 19th, 2012 12:00 pm- Wikipedia Editors Gender Breakdown
- How many hours of minimum wage do you need to pay income tax (in the USA)?
- What is the new Tory thinking on Europe?
- The lowest mortality risks are for the overweight.
- A new competitor for worst ever Worldcon panel!
- If you think TV relationships are how things are supposed to work, your relationship is in trouble.
- MDMA: For science!
- In Praise Of Pink
- Time-lapse of a naked woman during pregnancy
Interesting Links for 27-03-2012
Mar. 27th, 2012 12:00 pm- For the first time ever, the number of poor people is declining everywhere
- On Christian MPs demanding a reversal of the advertising ban on the healing power of prayer
- Chocolate may help keep people slim
- Tragedies make people happier in the short-term by making them focus on their loved ones.
- Lowering interest rates causes investors to take more risks.
- Landmark ruling legalizes brothels in Ontario - more like this please.
- You cannot testify against the TSA if you disagree with them strongly enough to take them to court.
- An ultradeep image that’s *full* of galaxies!
- The brain seems to remember antidepressants and react to placebos it thinks it's seen before.
Interesting Links for 07-03-2012
Mar. 7th, 2012 11:00 am- Ken Clarke defends secret courts. I, of course, think they're an awful idea.
- 6 Things Rich People Need to Stop Saying
- Jews in Scotland may be disenfranchised by a Saturday vote.
Is there a reason why voting has to happen on one day? Give people a week to vote, with daily updates on the ongoing count!
- Kids born later in the year more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD
- Govt. agencies, colleges demand applicants' Facebook passwords. (And they can, frankly, fuck off)
- Dammit, I find myself largely in agreement with esr on Hollywood, piracy and the internet
- A man who informed police when he found child abuse images on his computer has not been allowed to be alone with his daughter for four months.
- How I became Amazon’s pitchman for a 55-gallon drum of personal lubricant on Facebook
- On Writers Block
- I hadn't realised that Gillian Anderson stood on a box for The X-Files
- Either be offensive, or don't be offensive. Being offensive and then pretending you weren't is just dumb.
- Rather than a mansion tax we should be sorting out council tax
- Romney vs Mr Burns - can you tell which quote belongs to which one?
Interesting Links for 28-02-2012
Feb. 28th, 2012 11:00 am- If you want reproducible science, the software needs to be open source
- We're getting closer to artificual limbs that have sensations
- How much debt would an independent Scotland have?
- The most common cooking mistakes
- People who take Ritalin are far more aware of their mistakes
- 30% of income tax paid by top one per cent of earners. Anyone got comparisons with other countries?
- Beware The Bacon Balrog!
- Man builds hobbit house for just £3,000
- Gender-swapped Dr Who Cosplay. I may need to go lie down for a bit.
Interesting Links for 01-02-2012
Feb. 1st, 2012 11:00 am- Women Are Better Than Men At Parking Cars
- Transgender People are Completely Banned From Boarding Airplanes in Canada (unless they've had reassignment surgery)
- Sarkozy wants France to be more like Germany
- Only UK film ever banned for blasphemy gets a rating after 23 year ban
- Is it acceptable to call someone 'babe'?
- Scottish Opposition party leaders unite over same-sex marriage
- Twenty Five Questions My Mother Asks Me About Indepedence Every Time She Phones
- What is it like to be in a relationship with someone who has Asperger's? - Quora
- An innovative and effective method for dealing with gangs
- Progress report: Constitutional reform
- Wish banks were smaller, with less power? Move Your Money
- Petition the government to fast track the £10,000 income tax threshold.
- The Apple Boycott: People Are Spouting Nonsense about Chinese Manufacturing
- The-Observable-Universe is big. Reeeeeeally big.
- Self-steering bullet researched. Well, they say bullet, you might say tiny, tiny missle.
- We can now convert thoughts into sounds
Interesting Links for 01-12-2011
Dec. 1st, 2011 11:00 am- The BBC asks if a family can really live on £40,000 in an article that makes me _really_ angry.
- Landlords Use Computers to Arrive at the Right Rental Fee
- Evidence at the inquiry into journalistic practices shows that some journalists are just scum.
- How to report a strike -- a guide for the British press
- A petition on the Government website to have MP pensions brought into line with the rest of the public sector.
- Fast jet stream winds cannot contribute much renewable energy after all
- Fahrenheit 451 becomes e-book despite author's feelings (Is that the smell of melting plastic?)
- Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps (Android, Blackerry and Nokia affected)
- UK Government opens up more data for free. Met Office, House Prices, Public Transport and more
- Rail line to be reopened between Oxford and Bedford. Nice to see new lines being opened!
- Warren Ellis does an awesome Alan Moore impression
- 11 Celebrities Who Were Secretly Total Badasses
- A brief history of the universe.
- Researcher shows how to "friend" anyone on Facebook within 24 hours (and then steal their identity)
- Boy, 6, Charged With Sexual Assault for Playing Doctor, Parents Sue D.A.
- The 5 Best Toys of All Time. I've played with all of these, and they're awesome.
- HELLO THIS IS LIVEJOURNAL (a spoof of the current password phishing issues)
- 'Aliens on Ice': The Review. Dammit, not playing in Scotland!
- Italian court: Online editors not responsible for reader comments
- The psychological effect that having a high security clearance can have
- Spiritual practice as performance/art. That's something I can live with.