![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Interesting Links for 26-01-2024
Jan. 26th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Apple to allow rival app stores and browsers on iPhones in EU
- (tags:Europe regulation iPhone Apple browsers apps )
- 2. A collection of stories of queer and trans Floridians who have fled the state
- (tags:Florida LGBT transgender republicans bigotry )
- 3. Looking at how much male and female characters speak in the Disney Princess movies
- (tags:viaElfy Disney language gender )
- 4. More states propose bills to exclude trans, nonbinary people from public life
- (tags:LGBT USA law bigotry transgender viaBenWerdmuller )
- 5. A new global gender divide is emerging as young women shift in a more liberal direction and young men shift to the right
- (tags:politics gender )
- 6. What if consciousness is a coping mechanism?
- (tags:funny comic consciousness )
- 7. The "Code of Conduct" for Improbably Island is fantastic. Anyone running an online community should read it.
- (tags:internet discussion behaviour regulation )
- 8. QWERTLE - like Worldle, but based on keyboard location. I got today's in 4.
- (tags:words games keyboard )
Tags:
- apple,
- apps,
- behaviour,
- bigotry,
- browsers,
- comic,
- consciousness,
- discussion,
- disney,
- europe,
- florida,
- funny,
- games,
- gender,
- internet,
- iphone,
- keyboard,
- language,
- law,
- lgbt,
- links,
- politics,
- regulation,
- republicans,
- transgender,
- usa,
- viabenwerdmuller,
- viaelfy,
- words
Interesting Links for 12-12-2022
Dec. 12th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. The Five-Year Engineering Feat Germany Pulled Off in Months
- (tags:Germany engineering gas energy Russia impressive )
- 2. Countries that have banned spanking have lower rates of violence amongst children
- (tags:children violence spanking )
- 3. Base editing: Revolutionary therapy clears girl's incurable cancer
- (tags:Cancer genes GoodNews )
- 4. Where Do US Teaching Skeletons Come From?
- (tags:USA education bodies India )
- 5. Aspartame makes mice anxious. And their children. and their grandchildren
- (tags:food anxiety mice psychology )
- 6. If you're in London you should go see The Wolves in the Walls
- (tags:wolves theatre puppets video London neilgaiman )
- 7. On White Girls Wearing Braids as Cultural Appropriation
- (tags:cultural_appropriation hair race )
- 8. I object to headlines about Edinburgh Zoo penguins playing adorably in the snow when the video clearly shows them just standing about acting entirely normal!
- (tags:headline OhForFucksSake journalism video penguins )
- 9. This lizard is behaving exactly the same as our cat, Jim
- (tags:animals behaviour video )
- 10. What happens to your smartphone when it gets stolen?
- (tags:iphone crime viaPatrickHadfield )
Tags:
- animals,
- anxiety,
- behaviour,
- bodies,
- cancer,
- children,
- crime,
- cultural_appropriation,
- education,
- energy,
- engineering,
- food,
- gas,
- genes,
- germany,
- goodnews,
- hair,
- headline,
- impressive,
- india,
- iphone,
- journalism,
- links,
- london,
- mice,
- neilgaiman,
- ohforfuckssake,
- penguins,
- psychology,
- puppets,
- race,
- russia,
- spanking,
- theatre,
- usa,
- viapatrickhadfield,
- video,
- violence,
- wolves
Interesting Links for 10-10-2021
Oct. 10th, 2021 12:00 pm- How will Sandman handle its transgender character?
- (tags:LGBT Sandman neilgaiman transgender writing TV comics )
- Have you collateralised your bird of prey? (I was amused and delighted by this satire)
- (tags:finance birds satire funny )
- Proof that you can totally make a USB-C iPhone.
- (tags:USB iPhone video )
Interesting Links for 17-08-2021
Aug. 17th, 2021 12:00 pm- Scottish pubs are running out of beer
- (tags:alcohol scotland doom )
- Software development culture done right
- (tags:software development working_hours )
- Internet revamp for the humble UK landline
- (tags:uk phones Technology )
- Why does vaccine breakthrough happen? And why just in the throat?
- (tags:vaccine immune_system pandemic )
- Edinburgh's first fully electric double decker buses arrive
- (tags:Edinburgh buses electricity )
- Retail giant Hobby Lobby loses dogged 11-year battle to ban trans woman from bathroom
- (tags:USA law transgender )
- MasterCard to start phasing out magnetic stripes in 2024
- (tags:money credit technology banking obsolescence )
- Apple are just awful (this time: keyboard apps)
- (tags:Apple iPhone OhForFucksSake )
- Some transphobes just lost a court case against the EHRC - here's the judgement explained
- (tags:lgbt transgender law UK )
- The rabbi who was also a priest
- (tags:Jews OhForFucksSake christianity history USA viaPatrickHadfield )
- microCOVID Project - estimating risk levels of various activities
- (tags:pandemic risk )
- UK To Increase Aid Spending On Afghanistan By 10% After Cutting It By 78%
- (tags:uk aid afghanistan )
Tags:
- afghanistan,
- aid,
- alcohol,
- apple,
- banking,
- buses,
- christianity,
- credit,
- development,
- doom,
- edinburgh,
- electricity,
- history,
- immune_system,
- iphone,
- jews,
- law,
- lgbt,
- links,
- money,
- obsolescence,
- ohforfuckssake,
- pandemic,
- phones,
- risk,
- scotland,
- software,
- technology,
- transgender,
- uk,
- usa,
- vaccine,
- viapatrickhadfield,
- working_hours
Interesting Links for 06-02-2021
Feb. 6th, 2021 12:00 pm- Jeremy Hunt says Covid restrictions should stay until cases fall to 1,000 a day
- (tags:pandemic UK )
- "How King's College Hospital Cured My Depression" (psilocybin works!)
- (tags:psilocybin mentalhealth depression research )
- The graph of unintelligible languages is acyclic
- (tags:visualisation language )
- Fecal transplant turns cancer immunotherapy non-responders into responders
- (tags:cancer faeces immune_system )
- Denmark to build world's first wind energy island in the North Sea to power millions of homes
- (tags:Denmark windpower )
- American Mothers, On the Brink (I assume British mothers are much the same)
- (tags:work pandemic stress women mother children parenting )
- Indyref2 case dismissed as 'hypothetical' by court
- (tags:Scotland independence law )
- iPhone's Adult Content Filter Blocks Anything 'Asian'
- (tags:OhForFucksSake porn iPhone censorship epicfail )
- On sport, endogenous testosterone, and transgender participation in sport
- (tags:sports olympics testosterone transgender LGBT )
- The sound that connects Stravinsky to Bruno Mars (and dominated the 80s)
- (tags:video music history viaSwampers )
- An eloquent takedown of people who try to hide their bullying behind "Only joking"
- (tags:sexism video jokes humour bullying )
- Cambridge Analytica psychologist advising Covid19 disinformation network
- (tags:pandemic lies OhForFucksSake )
Tags:
- bullying,
- cancer,
- censorship,
- children,
- denmark,
- depression,
- epicfail,
- faeces,
- history,
- humour,
- immune_system,
- independence,
- iphone,
- jokes,
- language,
- law,
- lgbt,
- lies,
- links,
- mentalhealth,
- mother,
- music,
- ohforfuckssake,
- olympics,
- pandemic,
- parenting,
- porn,
- psilocybin,
- research,
- scotland,
- sexism,
- sports,
- stress,
- testosterone,
- transgender,
- uk,
- viaswampers,
- video,
- visualisation,
- windpower,
- women,
- work
Interesting Links for 03-10-2020
Oct. 3rd, 2020 12:00 pm- Why Australia's offshore asylum processing was so awful
- (tags:asylum australia OhForFucksSake )
- Users of the Covid trace app on iOS in Scotland (and Northern Ireland) can get confusing notifications. This explains which ones to ignore.
- (tags:pandemic iPhone apps OhForFucksSake )
- First new deep coalmine in UK for 30 years gets go ahead
- (tags:coal mining UK )
- Inside the World's Most Popular Vibrator
- (tags:technology orgasm )
Tags:
Interesting Links for 29-08-2020
Aug. 29th, 2020 12:00 pm- How to Piss Off Advertisers With Your iOS 14 Settings (I just did similarly on my Android phone)
- (tags:advertising iPhone Apple privacy viaSwampers )
- Bro, This Is Not The 'Beowulf' You Think You Know
- (tags:writing English translation history language review )
- JK Rowling returns human rights award to group that denounces her transphobic views
- (tags:LGBT transgender jkrowling )
- Children are not the primary drivers of Covid-19 transmission to adults in schoolz
- (tags:children school pandemic )
- Chadwick Boseman: Black Panther star dies of cancer aged 43
- (tags:Cancer OhForFucksSake marvel movies )
- Since the invention of categories people argued over which one jellyfish fit in to.
- This then led me on to read about Ctenophora - which are still being argued about!
(tags:history animals ontology ) - How Bella Thorne messed up Only Fans and caused a disaster for sex workers
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1299467098100396032.html
(tags:sexwork payment OhForFucksSake ) - Finally, a position I can vote for
- (tags:politics media uk )
Interesting Links for 27-02-2020
Feb. 27th, 2020 12:00 pm- Digging under the hood of the EU negotiating mandate for the future UK partnership agreement.
- (tags:UK Europe trade )
- Payments to English farmers to drop by up to 25%
- (tags:farming uk Doom )
- WH Smith is a very successful business that's trying to transition away from the high street
- (tags:business uk )
- Apple Bans Bad Guys From Using iPhones in Movies
- (tags:movies iphone )
- Clinical trials have started on a drug which may help with COVID-19
- (tags:virus medicine )
- If you're under 50 years old, your mortality rate after catching COVID-19 is only 0.2-0.4%.
- (tags:death virus )
Interesting Links for 30-08-2019
Aug. 30th, 2019 02:26 pm- Why the UK's "constitution" is unfit for purpose, & how British public complacency & exceptionalism has led to tyranny.…
- (tags:UK Constitution history )
- I'm a medical student, and I'm gay. Work would be simpler if I were heterosexual
- (tags:LGBT work NHS healthcare )
- Boris Johnson Is Planning A Series Of Extreme Measures To Force Through Brexit
- (tags:uk europe doom OhForFucksSake )
- Northern Ireland's lost moment: how the peaceful protests of '68 escalated into years of bloody conflict
- I hadn't realised how corrupt the voting system was until then.
(tags:voting rights NorthernIreland history protests violence uk ) - Dominic Cummings is playing chicken with an oncoming train
- (tags:UK Europe politics Doom )
- Large-scale GWAS reveals insights into the genetic architecture of same-sex sexual behavior
- (tags:genetics sexuality lgbt )
- I tried to glitch the simulation and all I got was a bottle of pee
- (tags:random simulation )
- Protect and survive: Official advice on how to withstand a no deal Brexit
- (tags:UK Europe Doom satire )
- Details of the court case on proroguing parliament
- (tags:parliament government democracy law uk scotland )
- Humans first reached Americas by sea a thousand years earlier than thought
- (tags:usa prehistory )
- A very deep dive into iOS Exploit chains found in the wild (and which can attack an iPhone if it visits a compromised website)
- (tags:security iphone apple )
Tags:
- apple,
- constitution,
- democracy,
- doom,
- europe,
- genetics,
- government,
- healthcare,
- history,
- iphone,
- law,
- lgbt,
- links,
- nhs,
- northernireland,
- ohforfuckssake,
- parliament,
- politics,
- prehistory,
- protests,
- random,
- rights,
- satire,
- scotland,
- security,
- sexuality,
- simulation,
- uk,
- usa,
- violence,
- voting,
- work
Interesting Links for 23-08-2019
Aug. 23rd, 2019 12:04 pm- Jeremy Corbyn's call for 'tactics' meeting - who is going and who isn't?
- (tags:UK Europe politics )
- The main thing I love about the Watchmen trailer is that I have no idea where it's going
- (tags:watchmen TV wtf )
- The crystal growers who sparked a revolution in graphene electronics
- (tags:Japan graphene crystals materials )
- A new survey shows what really interests 'pro-lifers': controlling women
- Yes, I know it's not a surprise. But it's always good to have data.
(tags:misogyny abortion society ) - Starbucks, monetary superpower
- (tags:coffee money business )
- How a Tarahumara woman won a Mexican ultramarathon in sandals
- (tags:running mexico )
- iPhone 7 radiation safety tests find device over legal limit
- (tags:radiation iphone apple )
Interesting Links for 09-04-2018
Apr. 9th, 2018 12:00 pm- 8 tips to help you become more resilient
- (tags: emotion advice )
- Best Breast Pumps 2018 (mostly saved for later for me)
- (tags: breastfeeding Technology review )
- The Oral History Of The Poop Emoji
- (tags: faeces emoji history )
- The Racist and Sexist History of Keeping Birth Control Side Effects Secret
- (tags: contraception racism sexism OhForFucksSake history usa )
- Why did fans leave LiveJournal, and where will they go after Tumblr?
- (tags: fandom socialmedia community )
- Dark Souls speed run in 55 minutes with no glitches
- By comparison it took me a few dozen hours.
(tags: games video impressive ) - Publishers Haven't Realized Just How Big a Deal GDPR Is
- (tags: privacy europe advertising surveillance )
- GDPR Requirements in Plain English
- (tags: privacy Europe law surveillance )
- Star Wars turns out to still be popular, despite loud whining on the internet about ruined childhoods
- (tags: StarWars )
- Brexit: Nearly 20 banks have committed to Frankfurt since vote to leave EU
- (tags: Germany banking europe )
- Childbirth stories are the stuff of life. We should share them
- (tags: childbirth birth stories )
- The "Solo: A Star Wars Story" trailer actually looks pretty good
- (tags: StarWars trailer )
- An introduction to cat behaviour for dog owners
- (tags: cats dogs behaviour )
- I simply don't believe that security on the iPhone works this badly. I assume it's a hoax of some kind.
- (tags: security iphone apple wtf )
- Content aware scaled cats are delightfully odd
- (tags: cats photoshop weird ViaDrCross )
- Fear mongering about cell phones and cancer
- (tags: phones cancer fraud OhForFucksSake )
- The handwriting of Bowie, Cobain, Lennon and more are now downloadable typefaces
- Both cool and creepy
(tags: font music viaElfy ) - Gut microbes are vulnerable to wide range of drugs
- (tags: microbiome drugs )
- Does the “Article 50 Challenge” have any merit?
- (tags: uk europe law )
- Myth busting: Why didn't the Skripals die on the spot?
- (tags: poison russia )
- Why fat piles on when the body’s daily cycles are in disarray
- (tags: fat sleep time hormones stress )
- Too many toys stifles toddler creativity
- (tags: toys creativity )
- GTA 5 Is The Most Profitable Entertainment Title Of All Time, Over 90 Million Units Sold, $6Billion made
- (tags: money media games entertainment )
- Bacteria found in the small intestines of mice and humans can travel to other organs and trigger an autoimmune response
- (tags: immune_system bacteria microbiome )
Tags:
- advertising,
- advice,
- apple,
- bacteria,
- banking,
- behaviour,
- birth,
- breastfeeding,
- cancer,
- cats,
- childbirth,
- community,
- contraception,
- creativity,
- dogs,
- drugs,
- emoji,
- emotion,
- entertainment,
- europe,
- faeces,
- fandom,
- fat,
- font,
- fraud,
- games,
- germany,
- history,
- hormones,
- immune_system,
- impressive,
- iphone,
- law,
- links,
- media,
- microbiome,
- money,
- music,
- ohforfuckssake,
- phones,
- photoshop,
- poison,
- privacy,
- racism,
- review,
- russia,
- security,
- sexism,
- sleep,
- socialmedia,
- starwars,
- stories,
- stress,
- surveillance,
- technology,
- time,
- toys,
- trailer,
- uk,
- usa,
- viadrcross,
- viaelfy,
- video,
- weird,
- wtf
Interesting Links for 10-12-2017
Dec. 10th, 2017 12:00 pm- Ballet rotoscope (delightful connection of line and motion)
- (tags: dance video Technology )
- Membership of Mensa associated with mental and physical disorders
- (tags: mensa Intelligence health mentalhealth )
- Germany has come up with the best solution to single-use coffee cups
- (tags: environment germany )
- How to deal with high housing prices
- (tags: housing japan economics )
- 10 Surprisingly Effective 2 P.M. Pick-Me-Ups
- (tags: work funny advice satire )
- Line Rider synced to Hall Of The Mountain King is a lot of fun
- (tags: music animation video )
- Widening inequality is largely a US and UK phenomenon – why?
- (tags: inequality uk society libdem )
- First electric trains to run on Edinburgh-Glasgow main line on Sunday
- (tags: Edinburgh glasgow electricity Scotland trains transport )
- Global powers lobby to stop special Brexit deal for UK
- (tags: UK europe )
- iPhone slow? Try replacing your battery
- (tags: iPhone speed batteries )
- A Cruise Ship Called “The World” Is a Luxury Home at Sea for the Super Rich
- (tags: money ship ocean )
- The six Brexit traps that will defeat Theresa May | Yanis Varoufakis
- (tags: Europe UK greece )
- Recycling Chaos in U.S. As China Bans 'Foreign Waste'
- (tags: usa China recycling )
- EU closes mammoth trade deal with Japan
- (tags: Japan Europe trade )
- Two-year degrees to lower tuition fees
- (tags: education UK )
- Bermuda abolishes same-sex marriage after six months
- (tags: lgbt marriage OhForFucksSake viaJennieRigg )
Tags:
- advice,
- animation,
- batteries,
- china,
- dance,
- economics,
- edinburgh,
- education,
- electricity,
- environment,
- europe,
- funny,
- germany,
- glasgow,
- greece,
- health,
- housing,
- inequality,
- intelligence,
- iphone,
- japan,
- lgbt,
- libdem,
- links,
- marriage,
- mensa,
- mentalhealth,
- money,
- music,
- ocean,
- ohforfuckssake,
- recycling,
- satire,
- scotland,
- ship,
- society,
- speed,
- technology,
- trade,
- trains,
- transport,
- uk,
- usa,
- viajennierigg,
- video,
- work
Interesting Links for 11-11-2017
Nov. 11th, 2017 12:00 pm- The UK spends more of their money on childcare than any other OECD country
- (tags: uk children money OhForFucksSake )
- The iPhone X Is A User Experience Nightmare
- (tags: apple iphone ux fail )
- It is the Time of Trump. Europe needs to step up
- (tags: Europe usa politics )
- The real lesson of that self-driving shuttle’s first-day accident
- (tags: driving accident automation )
- How can liberalism be to blame for everything when we can't even agree what it is?
- (tags: liberal language politics society )
- Reacting to the Louis C.K. Revelations
- (tags: abuse comedy )
- Mexico baby death trial reveals growing persecution of women who miscarry
- (tags: Mexico women pregnancy OhForFucksSake wtf )
- Men, get ready to be uncomfortable for a while. While forgiveness may come one day, it won’t be soon.
- (tags: abuse women men society thefuture forgiveness viaErindubitably ViaDrCross )
- The naked truth about Facebook’s revenge porn tool
- (tags: Facebook nudity Technology )
- At DC Comics, An Editor Rose Through The Ranks Even After Being Accused Of Sexual Harassment
- (tags: harassment abuse comics dc )
- CBS Diversity Showcase Is a Racist Mess, Participants Say
- (tags: racism comedy )
- EU citizens worth £4.42bn to Scotland (not that the money is the point)
- (tags: Europe immigration money )
- Two marine scientists are now playing each other, on Twitter, in an ocean-themed game of chess.Scientifically-accurate kill scenes are required
- (tags: chess games ocean twitter )
- Senior Saudi figures tortured and beaten in purge
- (tags: saudiarabia )
Tags:
- abuse,
- accident,
- apple,
- automation,
- chess,
- children,
- comedy,
- comics,
- dc,
- driving,
- europe,
- facebook,
- fail,
- forgiveness,
- games,
- harassment,
- immigration,
- iphone,
- language,
- liberal,
- links,
- men,
- mexico,
- money,
- nudity,
- ocean,
- ohforfuckssake,
- politics,
- pregnancy,
- racism,
- saudiarabia,
- society,
- technology,
- thefuture,
- twitter,
- uk,
- usa,
- ux,
- viadrcross,
- viaerindubitably,
- women,
- wtf
Interesting Links for 02-11-2017
Nov. 2nd, 2017 12:00 pm- Kevin Spacey: More allegations of sexual harassment surface
- (tags: hollywood abuse )
- This AR Headset Won't Replace My Monitor, But It's a Promising Start
- (tags: augmentedreality office thefuture )
- Sinn Fein blames DUP deal with Tories as Northern Ireland power-sharing talks collapse
- (tags: NorthernIreland politics fail )
- Nigel Farage: 'Jewish lobby' has disproportionate power in the US
- (tags: Jews usa UKIP OhForFucksSake )
- Wings Over Scotland blogger cleared over online harassment claims
- (tags: Scotland harassment )
- There was no "veil between the worlds" until Victorian times
- (tags: history myths )
- Free ATMs could be cut back in cash machine shake-up
- (tags: money technology banking uk )
- TripAdvisor removed rape and injury warnings at Mexico resorts, tourists say
- (tags: reviews rape fraud OhForFucksSake mexico )
- MPs vote for Theresa May to release 58 secret studies into Brexit's economic damage
- (tags: uk europe politics )
- Disney makes a bigger ask of theaters than ever before with The Last Jedi
- (tags: StarWars Disney movies money )
- Bacterial fats, not dietary ones, may deserve the blame for heart disease: Research could explain why gum disease is associated with atherosclerosis
- (tags: microbiome bacteria fat disease heart )
- Almost half of those who resolve a drinking or drug problem do so without assistance
- (tags: alcohol addiction drugs )
- Some natural environments are better for you than others
- (tags: nature mentalhealth )
- Could Twitter take a page from Something Awful?
- (tags: forum communication discussion internet )
- Disney releases the cast for Lion King 2019
- (tags: Disney lions lionking )
- The robot lawyers are here - and they’re winning
- (tags: robots law )
- Poppy Z Brite LOST SOULS Original Manuscript w/Handwritten Notes, Extra Material (on eBay)
- (tags: books writing horror )
- Every successful relationship is successful for the same reasons
- (tags: relationships advice )
- Racial achievement gap fell by 50% in schools where teachers felt supported and capable
- (tags: Education race school )
- Proportional Representation has its day in Parliament
- (tags: voting UK proportional_representation )
- My brother Mike has made an iPhone game! That you can use to make your own games!
- (tags: games iphone viaMyBrotherMike video )
Tags:
- abuse,
- addiction,
- advice,
- alcohol,
- augmentedreality,
- bacteria,
- banking,
- books,
- communication,
- discussion,
- disease,
- disney,
- drugs,
- education,
- europe,
- fail,
- fat,
- forum,
- fraud,
- games,
- harassment,
- heart,
- history,
- hollywood,
- horror,
- internet,
- iphone,
- jews,
- law,
- links,
- lionking,
- lions,
- mentalhealth,
- mexico,
- microbiome,
- money,
- movies,
- myths,
- nature,
- northernireland,
- office,
- ohforfuckssake,
- politics,
- proportional_representation,
- race,
- rape,
- relationships,
- reviews,
- robots,
- school,
- scotland,
- starwars,
- technology,
- thefuture,
- uk,
- ukip,
- usa,
- viamybrothermike,
- video,
- voting,
- writing
Interesting Links for 17-02-2017
Feb. 17th, 2017 12:00 pm- "It is not a ground for divorce if you find yourself in a wretchedly unhappy marriage"
- (tags: divorce uk marriage law )
- 99.6% of new smartphones run iOS or Android; RIP Windows and Blackberry
- (tags: phones iphone android )
- After a 40 Year Battle, Is Male Birth Control Finally Coming?
- (tags: birthcontrol contraception men india )
- Large imaging study confirms brain differences in ADHD
- (tags: adhd neuroscience brain )
- Highlights From The Comments On Cost Disease (None of which actually have hard numbers)
- (tags: economics )
- Zealandia: Is there an eighth continent under New Zealand?
- (tags: geology newzealand )
- Antibiotics, not surgery, could treat acute appendicitis in 97% of children
- (tags: surgery microbiome antibiotics )
- German parents told to destroy Cayla dolls over hacking fears
- (tags: security hacking spying germany toys )
- Brexit 'is not inevitable' and can be stopped by the will of the people
- Dammit, there's me agreeing with Tony Blair
(tags: tonyblair politics europe uk )
Tags:
- adhd,
- android,
- antibiotics,
- birthcontrol,
- brain,
- contraception,
- divorce,
- economics,
- europe,
- geology,
- germany,
- hacking,
- india,
- iphone,
- law,
- links,
- marriage,
- men,
- microbiome,
- neuroscience,
- newzealand,
- phones,
- politics,
- security,
- spying,
- surgery,
- tonyblair,
- toys,
- uk
Interesting Links for 11-09-2016
Sep. 11th, 2016 07:00 pm- How Lucille Ball saved Star Trek
- (tags: StarTrek history )
- How Apple Made Its Jet Black iPhone None More Black
- (tags: iphone apple design viaSwampers )
- Exam tests if students can identify their Asian teacher in a group
- (tags: race funny )
- What happens when lush bathbomb glitter gets all over your cat
- (tags: cat video funny )
- "My Father Was an Abusive Sociopath, And I Was the Only One He Had Left"
- (tags: psychopath parents family death )
- What were the biggest surprises from living in a simulated Martian habitat for a full year?
- (tags: mars simulation NASA )
- When Will New York City Sink?
- (tags: newyork globalwarming thefuture )
- The design for the new arts venue at the World Trade Center is clearly the puzzle box from Hellraiser
- (tags: design horror usa art )
Interesting Links for 19-04-2016
Apr. 19th, 2016 12:00 pm- This person wrote a #1 app for the iPhone. Here are revenue numbers and what they learned.
- (tags: iphone apps games money advice )
- Web host 123-reg deletes sites in clean-up error
- Just two days after someone faked it. Aah, the hilarity.
(tags: web epicfail ) - University of Edinburgh to monitor staff location
- (tags: edinburgh university surveillance )
- Many railway lines in Britain that were closed in the 1960s are re-opening
- (tags: trains uk history transport )
- CGA Graphics - Not as bad as you thought!
- (tags: graphics computers history video )
- On the Election of Scottish Opposition
- (tags: politics scotland )
- This is what shoggoths look like
- (tags: cthulhu ai art video )
- Independence supporters should not cast second vote for SNP at Holyrood election, says study
- (tags: politics voting scotland )
- Poll says the Labour brand is putting off Scots voters
- (tags: labour politics scotland )
- Saudis are going for the kill but the oil market is turning anyway
- (tags: oil middle_east )
Interesting Links for 09-01-2015
Jan. 9th, 2015 11:00 am- Details on the 20mph speed limits for Edinburgh
- You should all download the Snowscape iPhone app at once!
- Why putting a man being murdered on the front of your newspaper sends the wrong message
- Grading students by contract (I like this approach)
- DNA hinges and pistons hint at the future of nanotechnology
- David Cameron will refuse debates if Greens excluded.
Smart bit of politics. Green voters are coming largely from Labour/Lib-Dem backgrounds, which means that anything that helps them, helps the Conservatives.
- Surviving a night in A&E: a doctor’s story
- Cancer drugs fund has done more harm than good’
- Taylor Swift continues to be totes adorbs.
- The Genius of J.S. Bach's "Crab Canon" Visualized on a Möbius Strip
- Developers of Glorn - The ultimate German strategy simulation board game for 16-32 players
- On the racism of Charlie Hebdo
- #JeSuisAhmed Reveals the Hero of the Paris Shooting Everyone Needs to Know
- Gut bacteria, prebiotics and the link between helping stress, anxiety and depression
- When your robot buys illegal drugs. For art.
- Deliberately offending people is a necessary part of societal change.
- This router can power your devices wirelessly from 15 feet away (with 70% efficiency)
- Proposed email disclaimer law would create new problems rather than solve old ones
- The woman who spent 18 months living as a man - and what she learned
Tags:
- academia,
- apple,
- apps,
- art,
- bach,
- bacteria,
- bitcoin,
- business,
- cancer,
- celebrities,
- christmas,
- conservatives,
- davidcameron,
- dna,
- drugs,
- edinburgh,
- electricity,
- email,
- france,
- freespeech,
- funny,
- games,
- green,
- healthcare,
- iphone,
- islam,
- law,
- links,
- media,
- men,
- murder,
- music,
- nanotech,
- newspapers,
- nhs,
- offensive,
- paris,
- police,
- politics,
- power,
- racism,
- robots,
- satire,
- snow,
- society,
- stress,
- students,
- technology,
- terrorism,
- transport,
- uk,
- viamybrotherhugh,
- video,
- wireless,
- women
