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Interesting Links for 16-01-2022
Jan. 16th, 2022 12:00 pm- Tearful funeral worker regrets enforcing Covid rules while No10 partied
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(tags:death Pandemic Party BorisJohnson ) - DSLRs are dead, and lenses are never going to be the same
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- What genuine contrition looks like
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- The UK Prime Minister just doesn't believe that rules apply to him
- (tags:BorisJohnson rules Pandemic OhForFucksSake )
- Microsoft Word will now warn you if you're not using inclusive language
- (tags:language Microsoft )
- "I'm a strong woman - but I'm still a woman. Stop calling me a man"
- (tags:women fitness society )
- Spacecraft detaching and attaching to the ISS
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Interesting Links for 19-12-2020
Dec. 19th, 2020 12:00 pm- Battery prices have fallen 88 percent over the last decade
- (tags:batteries GoodNews technology )
- Swarm of drones flies through heavy forest—while staying in formation
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- Cats passing the mirror test
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- Lorry drivers heading to EU face ham sandwich ban
- (tags:food UK Europe trade transport )
- Blob Opera — (fun with AI and voices)
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- It Took Two Days to Develop Moderna's Vaccine
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- Zoom Executive Accused of Disrupting Calls at China's Behest
- (tags:China USA communication censorship )
- Jack Monroe's 3 Course, Zero-Waste Christmas Dinner from £4.34
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- Switzerland just became the 29th country to get marriage equality
- (tags:marriage Switzerland lgbt )
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Interesting Links for 24-12-2019
Dec. 24th, 2019 01:43 pm- A long thread about how Northern voters turned away from Labour and towards racism
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- Cats film to be 'resupplied' with improved visuals
- (tags:cats musical cgi )
- With 'Knives Out,' Rian Johnson Finally Bounces Back From Critically Acclaimed, Billion Dollar 'The Last Jedi'
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- Cats can very clearly recognise things in a mirror
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Interesting Links for 13-09-2015
Sep. 13th, 2015 12:00 pm- Elite scientists more likely to have an art/craft hobby
- How to build an Android device into your bathroom mirror
- Orcs of New York
- Nobody should be using OpenOffice. It's insecure, and not supported. LibreOffice is better in every way.
- Marketing hack: Give out a USB key that pretends to be a keyboard so it can send people to your website.
- What Ever Happened to Google Books?
- A short comic about cancer research
- Black Woman Says She Endured 8 Days In Psych Ward Because Cops Didn't Believe BMW Was Hers
- Getting Rid of Women's Periods With Birth Control is Perfectly Safe
- 26 pictures to illustrate how small we are in the scheme of things
- What happens when you let a Disney animator draw in 3D with virtual reality
- The physics of perfect happiness, and its effects upon baristas.
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Interesting Links for 07-06-2015
Jun. 7th, 2015 12:00 pm- What's the best word for genitalia?
- Not sure if being stuck at an airport with the casts of two Disney musicals would be the best or worst thing...
- Inside the World's Biggest 'Magic: The Gathering' Tournament
- YASKAWA BUSHIDO PROJECT / industrial robot vs sword master
- Why good people do bad things (and how to get them not to)
- What do IQ tests actually tell you?
- Here's What Drug And Legal Experts Actually Think Of The Blanket Ban On Legal Highs
- This Woman Has Been Sitting on Manspreaders For the Last Month and She Has Never Felt More Free
- The professor afraid of his students, and the one who isn't
- This Charity Gives Poor People A Year's Income, No Strings Attached (I donate to them)
- It turns out that "bra size" is not a very useful term
- Ferris Bueller took his Day Off 30 years ago today
- Hollywood's inaccurate STEM stereotypes are bad for all of us
- Shakespeare's Big 4 (a summary)
- What does it look like when Jesus walks on water?
- HTML is done
- An Interactive Mirror Built from 450 Rotating Penguins
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Interesting Links for 11-01-2014
Jan. 11th, 2014 11:00 am- The 10 Best Gadgets at CES
- There are plans for a bridge/park across the river Thames
- Looks like eye-tracking is going to be big this year (part 1)
- Looks like eye-tracking is going to be big this year (part 2)
- Chocolate Teapots: Not quite as useless as you might think
- Chocolate Teapots: Absolutely Useless
- Woman Sues Lawyers for Not Warning Her Divorce Would End Her Marriage
As Bart said, worth getting Independence so as not to share a country with this person...
- The Art of Bill Sienkiewicz
- Men – if you're not a feminist, it's fine, just move on (I love the second graph)
- School expels student...for witchcraft. In modern day America. What is _wrong_ with these people?
- Cats & Mirrors
- Are there really two NHS managers for every nurse?
- Disney takes a chainsaw to the Star Wars expanded universe
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Interesting Links for 17-09-2013
Sep. 17th, 2013 12:00 pm- Europe's largest tidal power project is approved (between Orkney and mainland Scotland)
- Netflix studies piracy sites to decide what to buy
- On the banality of systemic evil
- Richard Dawkins's Existence Poses a Real Problem for the Darwinian Theory of Evolution!
- I really like this photo
- Setttling disputes: THE VIKING WAY
- Women given a named midwife fare better and its costs less
- How the Christian fandom worked out what its canon was.
- Daniel Dennett: The Normal Well-tempered Mind
- Some thoughts on veils.
- Edinburgh Trams: Start date for passenger service by end of May 2014
- Stop Saying “I Have a Boyfriend” |
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