Interesting Links for 28-10-2022
Oct. 28th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. I have no idea how Meta spent this much money on VR nonsense
- (tags:vr Facebook MarkZuckerberg wtf )
- 2. AI generated Warhammer figures of politicians is as glorious and horrifying as you'd hope!
- (tags:viaMyBrotherMike Warhammer politics ai awesome )
- 3. What Do Blind People Dream About?
- (tags:dreams blindness )
- 4. Coverage of the debate on the Scottish Gender Recognition Act (reforming how transgender people can get a gender recognition certificate)
- (tags:Scotland transgender law politics )
- 5. You may have heard of Stanislav Petrov, but have you heard of the *other* Russian whose choices averted World War Three?
- (tags:nuclearweapons history Russia USA epicwin viaPatrickHadfield )
Interesting Links for 08-05-2012
May. 8th, 2012 12:00 pm- The truth about space pens
- Move fast and break things - why Facebook (the company) works the way it does.
- A brilliant post about how similar software development and having your bathroom refitted are.
- Brazil retailer using Facebook likes on its clothing hangers
- Scotland's councils - coalitions everywhere! (Including one where it's Labour+Conservatives!)
- Religion riskier than porn for online viruses.
- Fox News contributor laments mistake of letting women vote
- How savage has European austerity (spending cuts) been?
- Why the Department of Defense refused to support The Avengers
- Losing yourself in a fictional character can affect your real life
- Oral zinc may lessen common cold symptoms (and cause nausea)
- Labour-SNP Coalition to Control Edinburgh City Council. Hurrah for common sense beating tribalism.
- Want creative adults? Encourage fanfic.
- I had no idea that Ireland has mysterious boulders that move when nobody is looking
- Google gets license to test drive autonomous cars on Nevada roads
- Does your Hi-Fi system have an atomic clock? Then frankly you haven't spent enough on it.
Interesting Links for 30-11-2011
Nov. 30th, 2011 11:00 am- Welsh paralympic great Tanni Grey-Thompson criticises absence of women on BBC Sports Personality Of The Year list
- The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin (I find it fascinating. Sticking to pounds for now though.)
- Good Lord, Windows phones seem to be selling. (Always in favour of more competition)
- Top Five Regrets of the Dying
- And an interesting piece on those deathbed regrets.
- EU: Copyright Doesn't Cover Functionality, Programming Language or APIs
- Should public racism be cause for arrest?
- 17 cultural reasons why this European never wants to live in America
- One of Europe's largest companies wants to abandon email. Bwahahahaha
- So, who else is looking forward to the forthcoming war with Iran?
- This is pretty much how I feel about respecting other people's beliefs
- Women who play online games have more sex
- Subtitling educational pictures. I declare myself "amused"
- US judge goes crazy, orders hundreds of sites "de-indexed" from Google, Facebook
- Scooby-Doo and Secular Humanism
- Apple's Siri Is (currently) Pro-Life (one hopes they update this)
- Cheer up: The economy could be much worse (soon, I suspect).
- Egypt imports 21 tons of tear gas from the US, port staff refuse to sign for it
- The Apologies of Zuckerberg: A Restrospective
- Quote of the Day - Isaac Asimov on Ignorance in America
- If you want to be the best in the world at something then you cannot be normal.