Interesting Links for 24-03-2023
Mar. 24th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Sex Worker-Led Payment Platform Shuts Down After Being Cut Off by Processor
- (tags:sexwork payment banking OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Who, really, *is* Brandon Sanderson? (Other than the biggest fantasy writer in the world)
- (tags:writing fantasy )
- 3. Sometimes card tricks look so impossible that they just have to be magic
- (tags:magic cards video impressive )
- 4. Women comparing themselves with 'perfect' genitals in porn is contributing to a 300% rise in labiaplasty
- (tags:genitals vagina surgery porn society )
- 5. Who knew octopi would be so clingy?
- (tags:octopus cute video )
- 6. Epic's new motion-capture animation tech has to be seen to be believed
- (tags:motioncapture impressive faces )
- 7. Nasal Covid vaccine shows promise in early clinical trial
- (tags:pandemic noses vaccine )
- 8. Armed Metropolitan Police officer escapes domestic abuse prosecution after controlling 'every step' of his investigation
- (tags:police abuse UK OhForFucksSake )
- 9. JPMorgan Chase thought it had $1.3 million worth of nickel stored in a warehouse. A closer examination revealed bags of stones.
- (tags:fraud metal trade )
- 10. A Doctor Who game - join them together and try to reach 13. (I've gotten as far as the War Doctor)
- (tags:drwho games )
- 11. Nearly one in five people find everyday sounds intolerable
- (tags:sound psychology )
- 12. A machine that learns to play noughts and crosses, built from 304 matchboxes
- (tags:ai games )
Interesting Links for 21-03-2023
Mar. 21st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Massive Semen Explosion after Blaze Hits Bull Artificial Insemination Facility, Firefighters Forced to Dodge 'Projectiles'
- (tags:sperm fire headline )
- 2. Cyclists Now Outnumber Motorists In City Of London
- (tags:london cycling cars transport )
- 3. The ten types of magic
- (tags:magic video )
- 4. Octopus boss Greg Jackson: The UK is going backwards on renewables
- (tags:UK renewables regulation electricity )
Interesting Links for 15-10-2021
Oct. 15th, 2021 12:00 pm- Christchurch Council to stop paying The Wizard $16,000 a year after 23 years on the payroll
- (tags:newzealand wizardry magic weird marketing )
- Don't let environment get in the way of Brexit trade deals, government tells negotiators
- (tags:UK environment trade Doom OhForFucksSake )
- How do you deal with a shark that won't take no for an answer?
- (tags:shark funny video )
- Huge rise in domestic abuse cases being dropped in England and Wales
- (tags:abuse uk police OhForFucksSake )
- Shoppers start to use new £100 contactless payment limit
- (tags:payment uk Technology )
- Wind turbines are rapidly increasing in size, causing issues in transporting and constructing them
- (tags:windpower Technology )
- Liquid Gallium Shown to Break Down Carbon Dioxide ($100/ton)
- (tags:co2 GoodNews Technology )
Interesting Links for 15-07-2021
Jul. 15th, 2021 12:00 pm- Why are British place names so hard to pronounce?
- (tags:language uk history maps video )
- Magic! Darkest magic!
- (tags:video ViaDrCross magic )
- The Ugly Carpets of Vegas are Hideously Clever Social Engineering at Work - Or Are They?
- (tags:LasVegas design )
- 'Edinburgh Butterfly and Insect World to close doors for good after nearly 40 years (I was really looking forward to taking Sophia!)
- (tags:Edinburgh insects sad )
- Why the government did not 'override' an Act of Parliament over overseas aid - the concerning thing is that the government acted in accordance with the law
- (tags:law UK aid )
- Labels keep 86% of streaming revenues, leaving a pittance for the artists
- (tags:music money )
- How To Fix Your Joycon Drift Permanently!
- (tags:Nintendo video fail )
- Racism fuelling far-right threat in UK - MI5's Ken McCallum warns
- (tags:racism uk terrorism )
- EU unveils sweeping climate change plan
- (tags:europe globalwarming )
- Is this Britain's oldest intact home? (9th century, carved out of rock)
- (tags:homes uk history )
Interesting Links for 02-07-2021
Jul. 2nd, 2021 12:00 pm- A very impressive quick-change act
- (tags:magic clothes impressive video )
- The influencer who lied about having cancer
- (tags:cancer fraud OhForFucksSake )
- The Scottish Parliament has asked people what their priorities are. I just voted down a bunch of transphobic bigotry. Maybe you'd like to do likewise?
- (tags:viaJaneCarnall bigotry scotland government )
- This is basically my relationship with my phone. Except I get lots of happy things too
- (tags:viaSwampers news phones video funny )
- Social Skills 101
- (tags:socialskills comic advice )
- Lego app scans a pile of bricks and tells you what you can make!
- (tags:Lego apps ai )
- Leaky pipes can be better for moving water (and exchanging heat and gas with the air)
- (tags:3dprinting water gas air heat space )
- Are Green MSPs set to join Scotland's SNP government?
- (tags:Scotland GreenParty )
- Calling time on The Watch? What went wrong (and right) with the latest Terry Pratchett adaptation
- (tags:terrypratchett TV viaSwampers )
Interesting Links for 12-05-2021
May. 12th, 2021 12:00 pm- How To Do Everything You Need To Do With a Newborn When Your Partner's Gone Back To Work
- (tags:babies viaJane )
- This illiberal Queen's Speech is the next step for authoritarian populism after Brexit
- (tags:uk authoritarianism doom politics )
- Richard Garfield: Getting Lucky (on the role of luck in making games appealing)
- (tags:games luck viaDanielDWilliam design magic )
- How sex and gender are more complex than most people think (with references)
- (tags:gender transgender genetics )
- Rare fungal infections that destroy eyeballs and kill are on the rise in India
- (tags:India disease fungus pandemic )
- A Feather in Her Cap - The long and furious campaign against the global feather trade
- (tags:history women trade birds clothes uk )
- Will Boris Johnson's voter ID plans really mean more votes for the Conservatives?
- (tags:IDCards voting UK politics )
Interesting Links for 02-09-2020
Sep. 2nd, 2020 12:00 pm- Humble Comics Bundle: Judge Dredd, 2000 AD, & more (some very cheap excellent comics here)
- (tags:2000AD comics )
- Feline coronavirus drug inhibits the main protease of SARS-CoV-2
- (tags:virus pandemic cats )
- Amazon spies on staff, fires them by text for not hitting secretive targets
- (tags:Amazon business OhForFucksSake )
- We are living with the dark side of Clarke's Third Law
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1300654855413956609.html
(tags:technology magic society ArthurCClarke )
Interesting Links for 14-07-2020
Jul. 14th, 2020 12:00 pm- Growing Up With Grandparents In The House Can Lead To More Negative Attitudes Towards The Elderly (but being more relaxed about your own aging)
- (tags:age family psychology )
- Coronavirus: Can Scotland close the border with England?
- (tags:Scotland England UK pandemic )
- Boris Johnson sets up clash with Scotland and Wales over state aid
- (tags:Scotland UK Europe Wales )
- 60 people who Warren Ellis groomed sign an open letter
- (tags:WarrenEllis abuse )
- Work begins in Lincolnshire on world's longest subsea power cable
- (tags:electricity UK Denmark renewables )
- Majority of British women support self-identification for transgender people
- (tags:transgender polls UK LGBT )
- Sexual consent lessons for students at St Andrews University after rape claims
- (tags:StAndrews rape university consent )
- How Conspiracy YouTube rots your brain
- (tags:conspiracy YouTube videos medicine OhForFucksSake )
- Why "the NHS should prioritize spending on frontline services" is a terrible idea
- (tags:nhs organisation )
- Gender Recognition Act: Disney and Sky urge Tories to honour reforms
- (tags:UK Disney transgender sky LGBT )
- Joint Biden-Sanders task forces unveil progressive platform after months of negotiations
- (tags:politics democrats USA )
- Lovely piece of camera magic
- (tags:magic video cake )
Interesting Links for 13-01-2020
Jan. 13th, 2020 12:00 pm- How Animals Behave When We Aren't Looking (gorgeous magical art)
- (tags:art animals magic viaNancyLebov )
- Inspiring middle-age success stories
- (tags:MiddleAge success twitter )
- The Machine Stops (working when you take all of the people out of the process)
- (tags:automation process )
- Edinburgh woman becomes youngest to reach South Pole solo
- (tags:antarctic edinburgh women )
- What's been driving long-run house price growth in the UK? (Low interest rates)
- (tags:uk housing )
- Iran protests escalate as public anger against leaders grows
- (tags:iran protests )
- The debate of our era.
- (tags:war satire TheOnion Iraq Ian USA viaJohnBobShaun )
Interesting Links for 08-12-2019
Dec. 8th, 2019 05:28 pm- Brain tunes itself to criticality, maximizing information processing
- (tags:brain )
- The story of Britain in three polls...
- (tags:UK politics polls )
- William The Conqueror and the tactical assault witch
- (tags:witchcraft magic history UK wtf )
- Hacker who helped expose Ohio rape case pleads guilty, faces more prison time than rapists
- (tags:hacking crime USA rape viaEatSoylentGreen )
- When you listen to music when you're too hungry...
- (tags:music funny viaSwampers food lyrics )
- Edinburgh South West in GE 2019 - a choice between transphobes
- (tags:politics Labour SNP transgender lgbt OhForFucksSake )
- Tactical voting guide 2019: the 50 seats where it is vital to keep the Tories out
- (tags:politics UK voting )
- Banana artwork that fetched $120,000 is eaten by 'hungry' artist
- (tags:art banana )
- Patient data from GP surgeries sold to US companies
- (tags:NHS privacy USA UK OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 30-09-2019
Sep. 30th, 2019 12:04 pm- People are reporting collisions with Tesla's Smart Summon feature
- (tags:cars automation fail )
- A French Tunnel Sculpture That Took 30 Years to Complete
- (tags:France sculpture history )
- Margaret Beckett emerging as favourite to be caretaker prime minister
- (tags:UK politics Labour Europe )
- On Philip Lee, homophobia, and the Liberal Democrat party leadership not listening
- (tags:LGBT libdem OhForFucksSake )
- A Public Service Announcement About Bamboo Straws
- (tags:advice food )
- A viral fake news story linked trans health care to 'thousands' of deaths
- (tags:transgender LGBT OhForFucksSake fraud )
- Opposition parties pour cold water on SNP plan to bring down Boris Johnson this week
- (tags:UK politics )
- Vaccinations could be made compulsory for schoolchildren
- (tags:school vaccination )
- The Uterati Founders Disrupting the Vagina Economy
- (tags:vagina health business )
- China is stealing back its looted heritage
- (tags:art theft history museums China )
- BBC's Who Do You Think You Are? snubbed Christopher Eccleston because his family was too working class
- (tags:family class history TV BBC )
- Jane Eyre translated: 57 languages show how different cultures interpret Charlotte Brontë's classic novel
- (tags:language translation ViaDrCross )
- "What in Harry Potter did you think was magic but later found out was just British?"
- (tags:harrypotter UK school magic )
- Employers Used Facebook to Keep Women and Older Workers from Seeing Job Ads
- (tags:advertising discrimination Facebook jobs )
- Daily Mail owner leads race to buy the i newspaper
- (tags:newspapers uk )
- Austrian elections: support for far-right collapses
- (tags:austria politics )
- We urgently need a long term plan to deal with social care in the UK. Signing this petition was the least I could do
- (tags:care UK politics petition viaFrancescaElston )
Interesting Links for 22-07-2019
Jul. 22nd, 2019 12:01 pm- Gorgeous prize-winning wildlife photography
- (tags:nature beauty photography )
- On "Remain Alliances"
- (tags:politics uk europe )
- "Hacked Off" investigates transphobia in the British media. Finds a _lot_
- (tags:transgender lgbt bigotry media journalism uk OhForFucksSake )
- The Story Universe of Magic: The Gathering Is Expanding
- (tags:magic stories games tv media )
- On liberalism and transphobia
- (tags:transgender gender libdem liberal )
- This is how the Democrats need to fight Trump
- (tags:racism usa politics )
- The state of ABA as treatment for autistic people
- (tags:autism research abuse )
- Jeremy Corbyn has 56% popularity with Labour party members
- (tags:labour )
- UK CO2 Emissions Are Lowest Since 1888 Due to Government Intervention
- (tags:globalwarming co2 GoodNews uk regulation energy )
- EU prepares multi-billion aid plan to shield Ireland from no-deal Brexit
- (tags:ireland europe uk doom )
- Canadian cities take wooden skyscrapers to new heights
- (tags:design architecture wood canada )
- A Peculiarly Dutch Summer Rite: Children Let Loose in the Night Woods
- (tags:scouts children netherlands )
- China: The Land That Failed to Fail
- (tags:china economics politics history )
Interesting Links for 05-10-2018
Oct. 5th, 2018 12:00 pm- "It's all Greek to me" around the world
- (tags: language )
- The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Amazon and Apple
- (tags: security hacking china amazing computers )
- Russian spies attempted to hack into an international laboratory investigating the chemical weapons attack in Salisbury
- At what point does Russia start to be considered a rogue nation?
(tags: assassination russia hacking security ) - A thread of different magical systems.
- (tags: magic )
- The Tories have declared war on reality itself
- (tags: conservatives OhForFucksSake )
- Selfie deaths: 259 people reported dead seeking the perfect picture
- (tags: photography death )
- Twitter-inspired "You Might Be the Killer" is coming to Syfy this weekend
- (tags: movies review )
- Star Wars: Mandalorian TV Show Sets Taika Waititi & Others to Direct
- (tags: StarWars tv )
- The story behind Turkish Delight
- (tags: food turkey history women )
Interesting Links for 26-08-2018
Aug. 26th, 2018 12:00 pm- Drive-in 'sex boxes' for prostitution are a wild success in Switzerland
- (tags: Switzerland prostitution )
- The risks of alcohol (again) (with actual details of how dangerous, and a useful graph)
- (tags: ViaDrCross alcohol health )
- No-deal Brexit will be blocked by at least 40 Tory MPs, former Conservative minister says
- (tags: UK Europe Conservatives )
- The case for abolishing private schools
- (tags: school Education inequality )
- It is actually fine to feed bread to swans (and presumably ducks, etc)
- (tags: myths birds health food bread )
- What happens to British manufacturers using the CE mark after "Brexit day"?
- (tags: UK Europe manufacturing electronics safety trade )
- The Origins of Opera and the Future of Programming
- (tags: opera programming systems teams history )
- Jacob Rees-Mogg suggests that after Brexit, people crossing the Irish border should be subject to 'inspections, just like during The Troubles'
- (tags: OhForFucksSake conservatives Ireland NorthernIreland )
- The Guardian view on science fiction: The Broken Earth deserves its Hugo (totally. Read them)
- (tags: books Hugo scifi race awards )
- Skim reading is the new normal (waffles on a lot, I found it hard not to skim read, and I'd like to see some detail on the studies and the effect sizes)
- (tags: reading technology )
- Muslim Journalist Forced To Show TSA Her Bloody Pad During Search
- (tags: Islam security_theatre usa OhForFucksSake )
- The State of the Bestiary is Stable: 25 years of Magic the Gathering. (Fascinating, mathematical, personal, and analytical)
- (tags: games magic history )
- Friends, gather round for the tale of the worst bride in the world.
- (tags: wedding money OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 15-08-2018
Aug. 15th, 2018 12:00 pm- People Start Hating Their Jobs at Age 35 (not me, I hated my job when I was younger, and enjoy it now)
- (tags: work age )
- To Fix That Pain In Your Back, You Might Have To Change The Way You Sit
- (tags: pain back advice )
- State probe finds strapping children to chairs and placing mesh bags over their heads isn't abuse
- (tags: usa torture OhForFucksSake children )
- "I watched three days of nudity at the Edinburgh fringe – this is what I learned"
- (tags: Edinburgh fringe theatre dance nudity )
- Describing a film: badly
- (tags: movies funny )
- Mineral created in lab that can remove CO2 pollution from atmosphere
- (tags: co2 research globalwarming )
- Report details sexual abuse by more than 300 priests in Pennsylvania's Catholic Church (and over 1,000 victims)
- (tags: abuse catholicism children rape oh usa )
- "Spy Pets" (cute and funny)
- (tags: animals cute funny video )
- And now the BBC seems to be showing anti Pakistani propaganda
- (tags: Pakistan bbc OhForFucksSake )
- Penn Jillette, In Conversation - Talking magic, truth, and Trump’s alleged Apprentice Tapes
- Long and honest interview that's well worth a read.
(tags: magic politics interesting ) - Twitch's top-ranked game streamer, refuses to have women on his streams. A woman gamer sums up how this makes things worse
- (tags: games women )
- Edinburgh Waverley set for revamp to help deal with huge increase in demand at the station
- (tags: transport trains Edinburgh scotland )
- Edinburgh office parking plan to help cut air pollution
- (tags: pollution transport cars Edinburgh scotland )
- Italy's government are blaming Europe. they are clearly wrong
- (tags: Italy europe fraud )
- Massive summer polls are sending clear Brexit message
- (tags: UK Europe polls GoodNews )
- Theresa May considers plan to register 3 million EU citizens alphabetically to cope with flood of applications
- (tags: UK Europe citizenship OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 21-05-2018
May. 21st, 2018 12:00 pm- "What I Learned on My Date With a Sex Robot"
- (tags: sex robots )
- Capitalism and Magic The Gathering
- (tags: Capitalism games magic )
- Why, if the p-value for a study is 0.04, we can't say the study has a 4% chance of being a false positive
- (tags: statistics )
- On this day 1943: Should a woman or even a Yorkshireman be allowed to read the BBC news?
- (tags: history accents bbc gender )
- What is the most sophisticated piece of software/code ever written?
- (tags: software nuclearweapons viaSwampers )
- Acts versus consent: to what am I allowed to consent?
- (tags: sex consent bdsm )
Interesting Links for 02-04-2018
Apr. 2nd, 2018 12:00 pm- Responding To The Lib Dem Policy Consultation on Immigration
- (tags: libdem immigration OhForFucksSake )
- On discovering that you're not a failure - you're a penguin
- (tags: penguins autism diversity )
- New favourite theory about Mad Max
- (tags: movies funny australia )
- Check out this amazing hyper realistic painting of a cat!
- (tags: cats art )
- America is a dystopia
- (tags: usa dystopia OhForFucksSake school )
- Frodo Laid a Geas (I really ought to re-read LOTR)
- (tags: lotr magic )
- Cuttlefish does an amazing impression of a hermit crab
- (tags: animals impressive ocean )
- Heavy metal imagery to help with depression
- (tags: depression HeavyMetal )
- Men's ideal Hugh Jackman vs Women's ideal Hugh Jackman
- (tags: gender society )
- Why Do Cracking Knuckles Make That Noise?
- I really wish mine didn't need to do it intermittently
(tags: bodies sound ) - Vince Cable on internet regulation
- (tags: regulation internet libdem )
- How Amsterdam is reducing child obesity
- Annoying that the article leads with the exercise, rather than the advice on healthy eating, the dieticians, and the banning of junk food advertising on the subway/sporting events.
(tags: obesity children netherlands ) - The flags of most countries are really new
- (tags: flags history )
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
- (tags: photos helicopter )
- "I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site. Here’s how."
- (tags: Technology javascript web security )
Interesting Links for 13-01-2018
Jan. 13th, 2018 01:00 pm- The Widow, the Bank, and the $8 Billion Verdict
- (tags: banking death law money )
- From Russia With Blood: 14 Suspected Hits On British Soil That The Government Ignored
- (tags: uk Russia murder )
- Online shopping in Africa doesn’t work because addresses don't work
- (tags: africa maps location web )
- A brief translation of today's Facebook news from Facebook speak to English (tl;dr "Fuck you, pay us")
- (tags: Facebook advertising )
- Engineer says he quit Google after order to stop pro-diversity posts
- (tags: google diversity )
- Mothers who regret having children are speaking up like never before
- (tags: parenting motherhood mother children women happiness )
- The Clarke Gap (A useful metric for technology)
- (tags: magic Technology ux ArthurCClarke )
- The company that runs Britain is near to collapse. Watch and worry
- (tags: UK business fail )
- 'The desire to have a child never goes away': The Involuntarily Childless
- (tags: children mother fatherhood society motherhood sadness )
- Introducing the world's toughest snail
- (tags: snails awesome ocean )
- _Why_ Haiti is a shithole
- (tags: empire racism history )
- Women get prominent media jobs in wake of misconduct ousters
- (tags: women media jobs equality )
- Friends came to Netflix and everyone is shocked at the homophobia, transphobia and misogyny
- What currently acceptable tv shows will look awful in twenty years?
(tags: tv friends bigotry history ) - Delivering mail in Kabul’s nameless streets
- (tags: Afghanistan mail )
- In the 1880s Norwegians experienced racism in America
- (tags: usa norway racism history )
- "The question we came to dread: ‘Are you going for a second child?’"
- (tags: children life questions )
- Germany's Emerging Coalition Backs Off Delaying 2020 Climate Targets
- (tags: globalwarming Germany politics GoodNews )