Entries tagged with minecraft

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Interesting Links for 03-01-2023

1. Small UI tweaks to make Minecraft more user friendly: (tags:Minecraft ux )
2. Congress just passed the most important anti-corruption reform in decades: (tags:corruption USA law )

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Interesting Links for 27-02-2021

Covid in Scotland: 40-49 next to be vaccinated (including me!): (tags:vaccination Scotland pandemic age )
Cairngorms recreated in Minecraft: (tags:mountains nature Scotland Minecraft )
US says Saudi prince approved Khashoggi killing: (tags:USA murder saudiarabia )
Biden administration pauses arms sales to Saudi Arabia and UAE: (tags:USA saudiarabia weaponry )
10 Software Engineering Laws Everybody Loves to Ignore: (tags:software design )
Some initial, troubling, thoughts on the Shamima Begum decision of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom: (tags:UK law )
Alex Salmond claims he has evidence. Why can't he share it?: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1365357909891309568.html
(tags:law Scotland evidence )
The Metro is printing adverts that you would really struggle to tell aren't news stories.: (tags:journalism UK OhForFucksSake advertising )
"I'm Working Remotely. Can I Keep Hiding My Secret Baby?": (tags:babies work WTF )

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Interesting Links for 28-10-2020

What Comes After the International Space Station?: (tags:iss space thefuture )
Royal High School hotel bid rejected in Edinburgh: (tags:Edinburgh school planning )
Traditional owners mark one year since closure of Uluru climb: (tags:australia )
US grid-battery costs dropped 70% over 3 years: (tags:batteries electricity USA GoodNews )
Brexit border software developers warn it will not be ready in time: (tags:trade UK Europe Doom software )
Covenants, Easements & Wayleaves: The Hidden Urban Interfaces Which Shape London: (tags:tube London transport law architecture history viaFanf )
Scale any task down into a 2-minute version to make it easier to get started: (tags:advice procrastination )
Researchers invent white paint which could reduce the need for air conditioning by keeping surfaces cooler than surroundings: (tags:heat materials viaDanielDWilliam )
Must remember not to let the kids do this: (tags:coke CGI funny video )
Patrol vessel! Vs! Cruise ship!: (tags:boats funny )
Patrol vessel! Vs! Cruise ship!: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1246364316355514368.html
(tags:boats funny )
The UK's mandatory sickness pay is the lowest of the OECD: (tags:sick pay UK OhForFucksSake )
I used Minecraft to teach my kids reading and writing: (tags:Minecraft games literacy children )
COVID's cognitive costs? Some patients' brains may age 10 years: (tags:intelligence disease pandemic )

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Interesting Links for 31-07-2018

Germany gripped by #MeTwo racism debate: (tags: racism society germany )
Fear of litigation is a key factor in decision to perform C-sections: (tags: childbirth lawsuit healthcare )
People ask for evidence of Labour antisemitism...: (tags: Labour Jews )
Calls for Corbyn ally on Labour's ruling body to be suspended after claiming antisemitism row was invented by Jewish 'Trump fanatics': (tags: Jews labour )
Terraforming Mars harder than you'd think: (tags: mars )
Inside the World of Racist Science Fiction: (tags: scifi racism republicans )
Shockingly, people think God looks like they do: (tags: religion psychology )
Rates of Sexual Harassment in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine: (tags: harassment women academia science engineering medicine )
I continue to doubt that there ever was a Jesus: (tags: history Jesus religion christianity )
Wanted: more male psychologists: (tags: psychology men )
ArdaCraft - Middle Earth in Minecraft: (tags: Minecraft lotr )
Religious revelation and the origin of Lord of the Rings: (tags: lotr religion history )
Possibly the world's ugliest baby: (tags: sharks theft babies )
An Empire of Stars - How Britain beat the odds to independently achieve space flight, and then abandoned it on the very same day.: (tags: uk space history )

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Interesting Links for 14-07-2018

The Labour position on Brexit is now slightly harder than the government’s. But neither is remotely realistic: (tags: Labour conservatives uk europe OhForFucksSake )
People Are So Annoying That Animals Are Becoming More Nocturnal: (tags: environment time humans animals )
Nokia 6.1 Review—The best answer to “What Android phone should I buy?”: (tags: phones nokia android )
Nasa works out precisely how fast universe is expanding – and finds bizarre result that could change our understanding of cosmos: (tags: space physics )
Microsoft Urges Congress to Regulate Use of Facial Recognition: (tags: faces vision regulation usa )
I Used A Phone Like Most People In The World And It Was Awful: (tags: inequality phones Technology india )
Women won big in Mexico’s elections — taking nearly half the legislature’s seats. Here’s why.: (tags: women Mexico elections )
Brutalist Web Design: (tags: design web )
Facebook touts fight on fake news, but struggles to explain why InfoWars isn't banned: (tags: fraud news facebook )
A years-old, one-letter typo led to Aliens: Colonial Marines‘ weird AI: HOW WAS THIS NEVER FIXED???
(tags: bugs ai wtf )
A rescue diver on what it was like to save the Thai boys in the cave: (tags: Thailand diving cave )
Trump's ambassador lobbied Britain on behalf of jailed right-wing activist Tommy Robinson: (tags: racism usa Republicans uk )
How The Scottish Island Where Trump's Mom Grew Up Became a Haven For Refugees: (tags: refugee immigration scotland )
How Minecraft is helping kids fall in love with books (says article which doesn't include any evidence of increased interest in books): (tags: books minecraft Education )

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Interesting Links for 11-03-2018

How Wikipedia Chose the Image for the ‘Human’ Entry: (tags: wikipedia humans photos )
This Huge Leak of WhatsApp Chats Reveals The Full Fury Of The Tories’ Brexit Split: (tags: Conservatives UK europe )
"When That Guy Died on My Show": (tags: TV death viaFanf )
Staying awake: the surprisingly effective way to treat depression: (tags: sleep depression viaFanf )
Trudeau Liberals axe funding for books for the blind: (tags: Canada blindness books disability )
"Playing Video Games With My Son Isn’t What I Thought It Would Be": (tags: games children minecraft )
In Britain’s Playgrounds, ‘Bringing in Risk’ to Build Resilience: (tags: safety children school uk )
Bad news: Omega 3s don't confer any significant health benefits; good news: They're mostly harmless: (tags: omega3 )
Old man rants about immigrants stealing British jobs but in a nice socialist way: (tags: Labour immigration satire OhForFucksSake )
No Brexit Deal Until Next Year, U.K. Officials Say Privately: I wonder how bad it has to get before Tory remainers trigger a vote of no confidence
(tags: UK europe OhForFucksSake )

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Interesting Links for 29-12-2017

Female grant applicants are equally successful when peer reviewers assess the science, but not when they assess the scientist: (tags: science patriarchy society women )
Callous and unemotional traits show in brain structure of boys only: (tags: boys gender brain emotion psychology caring )
Jeremy Corbyn: “We’re not advocating a second referendum”: (tags: Europe UK labour )
Britain’s power system is the fourth cleanest in Europe and the seventh cleanest in the world.: (tags: electricity environment renewables )
Campaigning for higher and fairer taxes: (tags: tax uk politics libdem )
Sometimes Star Wars fans are the best fans: (tags: StarWars IceCream fandom )
Introducing Internet-based testing for STIs doubles testing uptake: (tags: sex disease internet )
Canada spends as much on marijuana as wine: (tags: Canada marijuana legalisation )
Shenzhen electrifies massive fleet of 16,000+ electric buses: (tags: China buses transport electricity )
Amazon and Google still can't agree to share nicely: (tags: Amazon Google YouTube OhForFucksSake )
Economics in Minecraft (some amazing stories. I don't understand all of it, but it's very fun): (tags: economics minecraft markets games )
The economics of legal pot: (tags: marijuana legalisation economics )

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Interesting Links for 20-01-2017

34 Year Old Man Realises Nothing Will Ever be as Good as Necromunda: (tags: games life funny )
The BBC are making the Gaiman/Pratchett novel "Good Omens" into a TV show.: I really hope it's not shit. I haven't been able to bear any of the Discworld dramatisations.
(tags: bbc tv terrypratchett neilgaiman )
The new Logan trailer looks just as good as the first one.: (tags: xmen movies trailer )
Higher levels of estrogen may protect against PTSD: (tags: ptsd stress estrogen hormones women )
A little discussed effect of therapy: it changes your personality: (tags: therapy personality psychology )
Amazing story of Napoleonic rabbits: (tags: rabbits history fail )
Investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot shows 40% crash rate reduction: (tags: driving automation transport GoodNews )
Popular photo app Meitu is sending your identifying data to their servers: (tags: privacy apps data )
Villagers knit jumpers for Indian elephants to protect them from near-freezing temperatures: (tags: elephants knitting temperature india )
Patrick Stewart to voice poo emoji in The Emoji Movie (Surely the pinnacle of western civilisation?): (tags: PatrickStewart movies faeces wtf )
Minecraft link to net's biggest botnet: (tags: minecraft ddos )
American farmers secretly feed cows defective skittles because they are cheaper than corn, truck crash reveals: (tags: cows food usa wtf )

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Interesting Links for 14-03-2016

25 years on - There Are Stil Ten Parts in Terminator 2 That Make Absolutely No Sense: (tags: jamescameron movies )
UK Government cutting benefits for the disabled to give a tax break to the richest: (tags: money tax welfare Conservatives uk )
Renewable energy’s global growing pains (An awful lot is happening. But is it enough?): (tags: renewables energy electricity world )
Official Center of the World, Felicity, California: (tags: wtf viaJamesNicoll )
In Comedy, Nothing Is Off Limits, but Political Correctness Does Make for Better Jokes: (tags: comedy video )
20% of reviews on Yelp are fake, and used to scam real businesses: (tags: review fraud OhForFucksSake )
If you're travelling into Glasgow Queen Street in the next 20 weeks then, well, you're not.: (tags: glasgow trains transport scotland )
Combining images using algorthimic pareidolia produces gorgeous results: (tags: art photographs ai beautiful )
Why the poor pay more for toilet paper — and just about everything else: See also: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/72745-the-reason-that-the-rich-were-so-rich-vimes-reasoned
(tags: poverty economics viaBartCalendar )
JPMorgan Algorithm Knows You’re a Rogue Employee Before You Do: (tags: work behaviour psychology fraud )
Obi-Wan Kenobi singing "I Will Survive" is clearly the best thing on the internet: (tags: StarWars funny comic song )
Less than half of America’s youth are straight, new survey finds: (tags: usa lgbt )
The First Image Ever of a Hydrogen Atom's Orbital Structure: (tags: physics quantum )
The Long Slow Death of Twitter: (tags: twitter comic socialnetworking )
Minecraft to run artificial intelligence experiments: (tags: minecraft ai )
Storegga Slide - the massive landslides which washed fifty miles inland in Scotland: (tags: scotland uk prehistory )
Mediterranean Sea filled in less than two years: (tags: prehistory ocean )
Go Ahead & Change Bodies; Just Remember To Take Your Soma: (tags: society thefuture Technology gender race )
Is TDD Dead?: (tags: testing design programming )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3417716.html

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Interesting Links for 01-03-2016

Genetic switch regulating satiety and body weight identified (in mice): (tags: genes food weight mice )
How to criminalise virtually everyone: (tags: crime uk libdem law )
The Ruin Of Minecraft’s Most Obscene Server: (tags: minecraft society )

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Interesting Links for 05-09-2015

Launch of in-car trials for development of 3D-LiDAR high-performance, compact, low-cost driving sensor
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A million interest-only mortgage holders face repossession
- (tags: mortgages UK headdesk )
Barclays to become the first major bank to accept Bitcoin
- (tags: bitcoin banking UK )
Minecraft with a 4000 block render distance
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What happens if you weigh yourself every hour
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Why drivers in China intentionally kill the pedestrians they hit. (Perverse legal incentives)
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Hawaii First to Harness Deep-Ocean Temperatures for Power
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Scientific studies show why everyone should play video games
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Volcano supervillain lair for sale
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This just in: murderbots more efficient than humans.
- (tags: robots murder death ocean )
Reminder: There is no historical evidence for boob armour. But dick armour was totally a real thing.
- (tags: penis armour history )

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Interesting Links for 03-06-2015

Batteriser is a $2.50 gadget that extends alkaline battery life 800%
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Why women in science should never take advice from their elders.
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Missing link found between brain and immune system
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OSHA issues guidance on transgender bathroom access
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Coloring books for adults are apparently very successful
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Growing up in a polyamorous household
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The Unlikely Story of Microsoft's Surprise Minecraft Buyout
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On the dangers of fanfiction
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I have 227 browser tabs open, and my computer runs fine. Here’s my secret.
- (tags: browser viaDrJon )
The map of non-monogamy
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Life is Strange is Getting Really, Really Good (I've just added it to my queue)
- (tags: games viaBartCalendar )
Porn stars watch their own porn with people and it's less awkward than you think
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This Cancer Doctor Is Leading the Attack on Astronomical Drug Prices
- (tags: drugs business healthcare )
Social and sensory overstimulation drives autistic behaviors (in rats)
- (tags: autism rats )
Steam Is Now Offering Refunds
- (tags: steam games valve )

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Interesting Links for 02-02-2015

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Interesting Links for 24-11-2014

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Interesting Links for 16-09-2014