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Interesting Links for 14-07-2022

1. TANK - a very short film in the style of classic vector graphics game Battlezone
(tags:games video movie )
2. Men once again shocked and disgusted to discover that women have bodies
(tags:models women society breasts )
3. Penny Mordaunt: Tory leadership hopeful repeatedly said 'c**k' in Commons speech after losing Navy bet
(tags:Conservatives funny penis )
4. Tory members support net zero and aren't impressed by tax cuts
(tags:Conservatives globalwarming tax polls )
5. My friend Patrick takes photos. Mostly around Scotland. Many of them beautiful.
(tags:photos scotland )
6. Shakespeare North unveils rival to London's Globe Theatre
(tags:shakespeare uk viaDanielDWilliam )
7. How did explorers in the 7th century BC sail the oceans?
(tags:ocean exploration ships archeology prehistory history viaDanielDWilliam )
8. Crypto Winter, or Crypto Ice Age?
(tags:blockchain epicfail )
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Interesting Links for 01-05-2021

Thoughts about making AI "explainable"
(tags:ai explanations models )
Covid in Scotland: Most councils on track for level 2 restrictions
(tags:pandemic Scotland GoodNews )
Women Who Refuse - cataloguing abuse and violence against women who say No
(tags:women violence )
London School of Dramatic Arts on Noel Clarke
(tags:abuse education acting )
UK government making 50% funding cut to music, dance, drama and performing arts; art and design; media studies; and archaeology
(tags:funding academia UK art music archeology )
Former BiFab yard in Burntisland secures first tenant
(tags:Scotland )
Why this coyote and badger 'friendship' has excited scientists
(tags:friendship animals coyote badgers video )
The difference between Kafkaesque, Kafkacore, Kafkastuck, and Kafkapunk
(tags:culture tropes genre )
Disney's writer wage-theft is far worse than reported
(tags:Disney copyright writing money OhForFucksSake )
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Every British swear word has been officially ranked in order of offensiveness
(tags:swearing language offensive )
'Godzilla' was a metaphor for Hiroshima, and Hollywood whitewashed it (by cutting twenty minutes from the original film)
(tags:Godzilla movies nuclearweapons history censorship )
Why Wikipedia Decided to Stop Calling Fox a 'Reliable' Source
Spoilers: because they aren't
(tags:Wikipedia FoxNews )
Scientists discover the perfect way to make tea! It is, of course, in the microwave
(tags:tea microwave china )
Are *you* the unnecessary pedant?
(tags:language comic funny )
If you could see your brain's world-modelling system it would be incredibly embarrassing
I have to fight mine all the time
(tags:thinking conspiracy models funny comic )
Doctor Who fans "healed something" in me, says Christopher Eccleston
(tags:christophereccleston drwho fandom )
Imperial! Marching! Ducks!
(tags:ducks StarWars video )
Which glowing legendary cat are you? (A personality quiz generated by an AI. Made me giggle a lot)
(tags:quiz cats ai ViaDrCross )
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Interesting Links for 14-04-2020

Pensioner Accidentally Ejected Out Of Jet
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As Divisions Harden, Is Time Running Out for Cyprus Reunification?
(tags:Cyprus )
Otherworldly Images of Andromeda Galaxy Over a Tiny Swiss Village
(tags:Switzerland space photography beautiful )
UK scraps plans to buy thousands of BlueSky ventilators
(tags:technology medicine pandemic UK )
The four largest protective equipment manufacturers in the UK saying they will limit supplies to England, leaving Scotland lacking
(tags:pandemic Scotland England UK )
Cheeky Scots students go viral with hilarious lockdown window display in Edinburgh
(tags:Edinburgh pandemic viaDanielDWilliam )
Mongolia to restore traditional alphabet
(tags:mongolia language )
A Comic Strip Tour Of The Wild World Of Pandemic Modeling
(tags:comic pandemic models )
The UK government is ignoring offers of ventilators
(tags:UK government medicine OhForFucksSake Doom )
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Interesting Links for 05-08-2018

A Labour councillor has quit the party over an anti-Semitic post on social media claiming Jews drink blood and sexually abuse children.
Good that they've gotten rid of him. I suspect there are a few more to go...
(tags: Labour Jews )
The Daily Mail are racist liars (Paris edition)
(tags: DailyMail France fraud racism )
New Picard-centric Star Trek series announced
(tags: StarTrek )
DARPA wants to speed up computers by over 1000 times while using less power
(tags: computers thefuture )
A thread about being a women game developer in Japan in the 90s
(tags: games history women OhForFucksSake )
Guns, technology, and law: the problem the USA has, and how it night fix it.
(tags: guns law technology usa viaTheFerrett )
It is worth reading the whole of this report on the Venezuelan "drone attack"
(tags: drone assassination Venezuela )
What is the best kind of life?
(tags: life rats comic )
Reclaiming "queer"
(tags: lgbt language history )
Amusing stoner confessions
(tags: marijuana funny )
The tiniest choreographer
(tags: dancing babies video )
Why the Mona Lisa cannot be restored
(tags: art history LeonardoDaVinci )
Amazing Star Wars model explosions
(tags: explosions StarWars models )
Today's best mispronounciation
(tags: funny )
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Breastfeeding model causes stir on catwalk
(tags: breastfeeding models )
Venetian Voting was fascinating
(tags: voting history italy )
Is no deal better than a bad deal (Irish edition)?
(tags: Ireland Europe UK trade doom )
This is what a trade agreement looks like. (Not something you dash off in a weekend)
(tags: trade )
Your regular reminder that if you don't block all ads then you are leaving yourself wide open to attackers
(tags: advertising hacking security adblock )
LibDem Whip issues apology over Trade Bill vote
(tags: voting Europe uk libdem )
Conservatives are breaking vote pairing agreements
(tags: voting UK conservatives )
Lance Armstrong’s Tour de France wins reinstated after Brexit revelation that cheating is fine
(tags: UK europe satire cycling )
Jeremy Corbyn Told By Veteran Jewish MP 'You're A F***ing Anti-Semite And A Racist'
(tags: Jews labour )
UK Govt now mandated in law to take all necessary steps to remain part of EEA or EU
(tags: Europe uk )
More British people subscribe to a streaming TV provider than a cable/satellite one.
(tags: tv UK streaming )
Young people don't drive nearly as much as they used to
(tags: driving demographics uk )
Piling on a three way referendum shows 55% for Remain, large percentage want to cause food riots.
(tags: UK Europe polls )
MPs removed the legal safeguards that would have enabled an annulment of the referendum outcome if there was material cheating.
(tags: fraud referendum uk europe )
Since it decriminalised all drugs in 2001, Portugal has seen dramatic drops in overdoses, HIV infection and drug-related crime
(tags: Portugal drugs GoodNews decriminalization )
Banning sex work advertising online will put sex workers in danger
(tags: sexwork UK OhForFucksSake )
Dairy products may become luxuries after UK leaves EU
(tags: UK Europe milk doom )
This vision of a future British economy looks good. Am I missing something? (Other than Labour still being pro-Brexit)
(tags: uk europe thefuture labour economy )
9ft shark spotted in Cornwall
Also - if someone _has_ taken a vertical video, what exactly are they gaining by adding a blurry copy on each side of it?
(tags: Cornwall sharks video )
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"I'm a woman in computer science. Let me ladysplain the Google memo to you"
(tags: Google diversity women )
9 Non-Threatening Leadership Strategies for Women
(tags: management women satire )
What does the ideal House of Commons look like?
(tags: politics uk )
This chart does not show 30% of Remain voters wanting all EU migrants to leave.
(tags: Europe UK immigration polls )
Chimpanzees can learn to play Rock, Paper, Scissors as well as four-year-olds
(tags: chimpanzees intelligence )
Atypical is horrible anti-Autistic-person TV
(tags: tv autism comedy review )
Winners and Losers of the Recent Nuclear Holocaust
(tags: politics nuclearweapons satire funny war )
Scotland's model teenager takes on the world
(tags: models scotland )
LIBOR, a Crucial Financial Benchmark, Is a Lie
(tags: finance viaFanf )
Libor is a made up number
(tags: finance viaFanf wtf )
Too many people won't let boys like nice things
(tags: society gender children boys men )
First Conservative MP threatens to quit party if Theresa May presses ahead with hard Brexit
(tags: uk europe Conservatives )
A British Person Watched The London Scenes Of "Sharknado 5" And There Are A Few Problems
(tags: movies funny london sharks )
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Mario Kart VR looks absolutely incredible
(tags: Mario nintendo VirtualReality awesome video )
At Wimbledon 2017, one of the oldest tennis tournaments serves up new tech
(tags: technology sport )
Miniatur Wunderland, world's largest model railway, filmed with Google Maps Street View
(tags: photos size google models germany )
Electric cars to account for all new vehicle sales in Europe by 2035
(tags: cars thefuture electricity )
Superconducting Quantum Levitation on a 3π Möbius Strip
(tags: quantum video magnets )
Eight unusual neuropsychological syndromes (that I'd never heard of)
(tags: psychology weird )
Pakistan’s secret atheists
(tags: pakistan atheism religion islam )
This is still the best joke of all time
(tags: funny joke facebook )
Turn JavaScript code into Emoji (It was only a matter of time)
(tags: emoji javascript funny )
The Beloit College Mindset List for the Class of 2020
(tags: demographics time age society )
Dark Souls cake!
(tags: cake games )
I Worry Blizzard Won't Make 'Diablo 4' If They Can't Monetize It With Loot Boxes
(tags: games money business )
Labour's 2017 election campaign worst in almost 70 years at turning votes into seats
(tags: voting labour uk politics )
Ravens can be better at planning ahead than four-year-old children
(tags: birds Intelligence )
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Interesting Links for 25-10-2016

EU set for ‘dirty Brexit’
(tags: europe uk )
EZTV Shuts Down After Hostile Takeover
(tags: bittorrent piracy hacking )
Why 538 still give Trump a 14% chance of victory
(tags: politics models statistics usa )
How German nuclear scientists reacted to the news of Hiroshima
(tags: nuclearweapons wwii history )
Unlocking the secrets of bacterial biofilms – to use against them
(tags: bacteria disease biology )
A Book by Its Cover: The strange history of books bound in human skin.
(tags: humans bodies books history )
There are many different kinds of depression
(tags: depression psychology research )
Energy storage via pumped hydro systems is not useful on a very small scale?
(tags: hydroelectric power electricity )
No differences noted over time for children of gay, lesbian, adoptive parents
(tags: lgbt parenting )
Revisiting the “Moral” Panic Around D&D
(tags: dungeonsanddragons religion history usa )
If you want to influence people don't try to persuade them. Use ‘pre-suasion’ instead.
(tags: psychology communication )
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