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Interesting Links for 01-12-2023
Dec. 1st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. The Fairytale Of New York is over - Shane MacGowan dies
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- 2. Britons support rejoining the single market, even if it means free movement
- (tags:polls UK europe GoodNews )
- 3. 'Napoleon' & 'Flower Moon' Flopped Harder Than 'Marvels' — Why the Different Narrative?
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- 4. How do you weigh an octopus?
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Interesting Links for 29-05-2023
May. 29th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Hark to the tale of Octlantis and Octopolis, and the octopi who made them their homes
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- 2. Twitter pulls out of voluntary EU disinformation code
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- 3. UMD Study Finds Brain Connectivity, Memory Improves in Older Adults After Walking
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- 4. Most Americans say they would support stricter gun control laws
- (tags:guns law USA polls )
- 5. A measles vaccine delivered via sticker shows promising early results
- (tags:vaccination technology GoodNews )
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)
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- 3. Sometimes card tricks look so impossible that they just have to be magic
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- 4. Women comparing themselves with 'perfect' genitals in porn is contributing to a 300% rise in labiaplasty
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- 5. Who knew octopi would be so clingy?
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- 6. Epic's new motion-capture animation tech has to be seen to be believed
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- 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)
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- 11. Nearly one in five people find everyday sounds intolerable
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- 12. A machine that learns to play noughts and crosses, built from 304 matchboxes
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Interesting Links for 10-01-2023
Jan. 10th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Speech synthesis is getting a lot better at copying human voices - still mostly sounds artificial though
- (tags:speech voice ai microsoft )
- 2. Fine dining may not be possible in a world where workers are treated fairly (and the world's best restaurant is closing)
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- 3. NI Protocol: UK and EU reach agreement on trade data sharing
- (tags:UK Europe GoodNews NorthernIreland )
- 4. Major donors call on Rishi Sunak to reform political funding system
- (tags:money politics UK reform corruption )
- 5. Federal agency considers ban on gas stoves following report linking them to childhood asthma
- (tags:gas asthma USA )
- 6. Suffix 'ussy' is American Dialect Society's word of the year
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- 7. Looking at Edinburgh pedestrian deaths
- (tags:edinburgh transport cars buses death safety roads viaDanielDWilliam )
- 8. What an octopus must think of a human (told in the style of lovecraftian horror)
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- 9. Almost 90% of games sold in UK in 2022 were digital
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Interesting Links for 23-07-2021
Jul. 23rd, 2021 12:00 pm- ScotWind offshore wind auction attracts 74 bids
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- Westminster Orders Northern Ireland's Leaders To Set Up Abortion Services Immediately
- (tags:abortion UK NorthernIreland )
- Edinburgh mum snaps spectacular image of octopus in front of Forth Road Bridge
- (tags:Edinburgh octopus viaDanielDWilliam )
- Richard of York and the struggles of the 1450s, as told in Good Place memes
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- Why the UK has a vaccine supply problem
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- A Defunct Video Hosting Site Is Flooding Mainstream Websites With Hardcore Porn
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Interesting Links for 21-03-2021
Mar. 21st, 2021 12:00 pm- This is a decent background on the mess going on with the SNP at the moment
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- £1m-plus PPE contract handed to Tory donor's firm still kept secret one year later
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- Some fascinating developments in understanding and working with mouse and human embryos
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- Infinite Nature: Perpetual View Generation of Natural Scenes from a Single Image
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- People are sharing the useless mental health advice from their GPs
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- Giant octopus moves in to Edinburgh's Sick Kids hospital
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- Here's Google embedding sexism in its translation software
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- Why is the Taiwanese government telling its citizens to stop changing their name to "Salmon"?
- (tags:names fish Taiwan food marketing )
- Met Police are happy to beat up women, but anti mask idiots are free to march as much as they like
- (tags:protests police OhForFucksSake London UK )
- Visa to hike interchange fees for UK customers in post-Brexit move
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- Republicans warn that if people get their vote then they won't be able to win
- (tags:politics usa republicans )
- How vaccinated is the UK, and what does the data tell us we need to watch out for?
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Interesting Links for 27-09-2019
Sep. 27th, 2019 12:55 pm- Marvel mastermind Kevin Feige to develop new Star Wars film
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- What *really* happens to people when they're exposed to a vacuum?
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- This is the massager your cat needs
- It's mostly the expression on its face I love
(tags:massage cats video ) - A Sleeping Octopus Changes Color While Dreaming
- (tags:octopus sleep colour viaElfy )
- Supreme court litigant advised to buy stab vest after death threats
- (tags:UK Europe OhForFucksSake )
- I, too, would like to live in a 350sqft Harry Potter Themed Playhouse
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- I was not invited to this party. Which is a shame, because it was clearly the best party ever
- (tags:dogs babies video viaSwampers )
- Boris Johnson's backers have bet billions on the pound crashing
- (tags:finance politics UK Europe OhForFucksSake )
- Boris Johnson is capitalising on MPs fearing for their lives
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- Infinity is too a number
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- TikTok's local moderation guidelines ban pro-LGBT content
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- Boris Johnson could bypass key law blocking no-deal Brexit by issuing order to suspend it
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- Can Boris Johnson actually suspend the Benn Act?
- (tags:politics law UK viaDanielDWilliam )
- The Civil Contingencies Act 2004 is not an Enabling Act for Brexiters
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- Japan Airlines will tell you where the baby on board is sitting
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- Uber stopped its own investigators from reporting crimes to the police
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- Prehistoric Babies Drank Animal Milk From Bottles
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- Man catches monster tuna worth almost €3 million and throws it back into sea
- (tags:fish environment japan ireland )
- Why Are Rich People So Mean?
- (tags:money inequality psychology )
- Brexit, Padfield, and the Benn Act
- (tags:uk europe law )
- BBC says staff cannot call Donald Trump a racist even if he says racist things
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Interesting Links for 30-06-2019
Jun. 30th, 2019 03:29 pm- Boeing's 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers
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- The Conservatives are suffering entryism from Brexit extremists
- (tags:UK Europe conservatives doom )
- Stonewall was not the start - it took a decade of resistance to reach that point
- (tags:lgbt transgender history protests viaLilysea )
- Babylon 5 Is the Greatest, Most Terrible SF Series
- (tags:tv Babylon5 review )
- Are the Brits at it again?
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- Researchers model how octopus arms make decisions (and talk to each other without informing the brain)
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- Britain: Ruined since the 5th century
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- Scotland's only breast milk bank is looking for volunteers
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- German far-right group used police data to compile death list
- (tags:fascism police germany )
- Stonewall's CEO Reveals Why She Decided To Fight For Transgender Rights
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- Have some relationship advice
- Some great comments too
(tags:relationships advice ) - The computer games industry is renowned for terrible jobs. This is worst than most
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- Three Halflings in a Trenchcoat: a homebrew fighter class for D&D
- (tags:dungeonsanddragons funny )
- Ray Harryhausen | Titan of Cinema | National Galleries of Scotland (next year)
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- How tea killed the fairies
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- UK to deport aspiring astrophysicist, 23, to Pakistan where she faces death or forced marriage to cousin
- (tags:UK pakistan OhForFucksSake )
- 100% renewable energy without blackouts (by 2050)
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Interesting Links for 24-09-2018
Sep. 24th, 2018 12:00 pm- Majority Of Voters Back Urgent Reform Of Westminster System
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- Why it matters that Bert and Ernie are gay, which they are
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- Octopuses on MDMA reveal genetic evolution link to human social behaviors
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- Continental Drift - It's amazing how recent anything even vaguely resembling modern continents arise
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- How the World Map Looks Wildly Different Than You Think
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- Solar panels replaced tarmac on a motorway. Here are the results.
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- App update rejected for mentioning iPhone XR in release notes
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- Chechnya starts concentration camps for gay men, first time after Hitler
- (tags: lgbt homosexuality Chechnya fascism bigotry OhForFucksSake )
- Labour's new Brexit referendum would not offer option to remain in EU, says John McDonnell
- (tags: Labour UK Europe OhForFucksSake )
- No one understands why DC is now removing Batman’s penis from comic
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- Malware Disguised as Job Offers Distributed on Freelance Sites
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- “Unadoptable” shelter cats get second chance at life by chasing mice
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Interesting Links for 29-10-2017
Oct. 29th, 2017 11:00 am- The Collapse Of Visceral's Ambitious Star Wars Game
- (tags: games StarWars fail )
- A vision of Middle Earth
- (tags: lotr Tolkien art )
- Giant Frog Farms of the 1930s
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- Russian 'methbot' fraud steals $180 million in online ads
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- EU governments want to give record labels control over what we can post
- (tags: censorship europe copyright OhForFucksSake )
- How Deliveroo's 'dark kitchens' are catering from car parks
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- Dogs may protect against childhood eczema and asthma
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- Octopuses! Invade! Wales!
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- Look to Sheffield: this is how state and corporate power subvert democracy
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- Delaware's Odd, Beautiful, Contentious, Private Utopia
- (tags: law usa freedom weird society )
- The Scientific Case for P≠NP
- (tags: mathematics frogs science )
Interesting Links for 31-03-2017
Mar. 31st, 2017 12:00 pm- You can’t buy Congress’s web history - that's not how it works
- (tags: privacy politics usa internet )
- The Four Types Of Scarlett Johansson Movies
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- Cat ownership rise driven by men
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- Transgender World War Two veteran Patricia Davies lived a lie
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- Make this the year you go to Beltane Fire Festival (30th anniversary!)
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- Why you should always put a coin in the freezer before you leave home
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- OMG! Sharknado is real!
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- Most Scots say Holyrood should decide on referendum
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- Giant 4m octopus filmed for the first time
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- UK raids as Dutch prosecutors launch tax evasion investigation
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- Another teaser for season 7 of Game of Thrones. They really are giving nothing away
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- Verizon Announces Plans to Install Spyware on All Its Android Phones
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- The Man Who Wrote Article 50 Says It’s “Balls” To Say Scotland Won’t Get Into The EU
- He dismissed the assertion that an independent Scotland would have to "join the back of the queue" for EU membership, arguing that no such queue exists.
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Interesting Links for 13-12-2015
Dec. 13th, 2015 12:00 pm- Suspension notices sent to five thousand Ottawa students demanding proof of vaccination
- Russia plans $40 a barrel oil for next seven years as Saudi showdown intensifies
- A spotter's guide to really unusual patronuses
- 15 Autism Myths
- Avengers sex toys are the best sex toys
- Highly educated women no longer have fewer kids
- The Divorce Colony - where the 19th century well-to-do went to end their marriages
- There was an almost-ready Ebola vaccine for a decade. But no rich people under threat...
- Awesome cephalopod gifs
- Paris climate negotiations produce an agreement
- The open-office trend is destroying the workplace.
- Ideal Way to Write a Screenplay (or, indeed, any other kind of fiction)
- Active ingredient in magic mushrooms reduces anxiety, depression in cancer patients
- LSD changes consciousness by reorganizing human brain networks
- Are lower pesticide residues a good reason to buy organic? Probably not.
- There's actually a good reason to not remove labels from sofas
- The Truth About Hymens And Sex
- If Facebook Got Rid of Everything You Hate
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Interesting Links for 18-08-2015
Aug. 18th, 2015 12:00 pm- Evolution 101: No, an Octopus is not an Alien
- Linux "suspend" functionality seems to be remarkably broken
- Now we can read burned books, by examining the ashes.
- What's your least favourite fetish?
- Windows 10 Won’t Run Games Using SafeDisc Or Securom DRM
- Just to be clear - we still don't know if video games make people violent
- Whatever happened to the woman who discovered what the universe is made from?
- Decertifying the worst voting machine in the US
- Everything You've Heard About Chastity Belts Is a Lie
- Technology has created more jobs than it has destroyed, says 140 years of data
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Interesting Links for 08-03-2015
Mar. 8th, 2015 12:00 pm- Security: Toddler vs Phone Lock
- Felons, addicts, immigrants: This bakery will hire anyone
- Mindfulness stress reduction may reduce fasting glucose in overweight and obese women
- The future of 999
- Scottish Labour referring to the Scottish First Minister as a "Wee lassie with a tin helmet on"
- Ants! On! Stilts! (For! Science!)
- The Single Biggest Reason I’m Still A Lib Dem
- Gwyneth Paltrow is right: there is a "secret organ" you've been ignoring
- Yacouba Sawadogo - The Man Who Stopped the Desert
- Flexbox in 5 minutes (nearer 15, but well worth it)
- Company Growth: Why everything breaks at 25 employees
- A meditation on chronic pain
- Octopus steals camera, takes photo of researcher
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Interesting Links for 25-02-2014
Feb. 25th, 2014 11:00 am- BT's 21CN not fit for purpose?
- Octopus can't sleep because of light, starts breaking it every night.
- What does the Russian media think of the situation in Ukraine
- How are bankers getting around the EU pay curb
- The truth about the luxury of Qatar Airways
- How accurate are Alex Salmond's claims on Scotland's Oil?
- Game developers and their cats – in pictures
- Belief in hell makes you less happy.
- Single-sex education doesn't actually offer any advantage over coed schools
- Bitcoin's life-or-death moment
- How ARM Holdings Dominates the Chip World
Interesting Links for 24-05-2013
May. 24th, 2013 12:00 pm- SAP in search of autistic software engineers who 'think different'
- How an Entirely New, Autistic Way of Thinking Powers Silicon Valley
- What does the next generation of mobile internet look like?
- EU shelves plans to ban refillable olive oil jugs
- If you commit a crime, for goodness sake don't boast about it on Twitter afterwards!
- The Problem with 'Boys Will Be Boys'
- Sometimes it is not a good idea to send people pictures of your cat
- What parents miss when their children come home from college
- How to speak to Geeks
- Real life octopus/dolphin snuggling.
- What are people's top five financial regrets?
- Race, Intelligence, and Genetics For Curious Dummies
- Eric Weinstein may have found the answer to physics' biggest problems
- Edinburgh trams: Overhead cables to go up during summer
- The $99 Ouya Is No PlayStation or Xbox, and That's Just Fine
Interesting Links for 03-01-2012
Jan. 3rd, 2012 11:00 am- Combining images from Disney movies with drunken text messages for sheer internet awesomeness!
- WebGL Water. Nice demo.
I remember when this kind of thing would take up the complete CPU of my computer, while running as native code.
- This is what it looks like when the largest city in the Southern Hemisphere bans advertising
- Belarus makes it illegal to use non-Belarusian websites.
- A fascinating piece on the lead hacker behind the world's busiest spam botnet
- Invisible Undersea Monster Makes Marine Biologist Scream
