Entries tagged with octopus

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Interesting Links for 24-03-2023

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): (tags:writing fantasy )
3. Sometimes card tricks look so impossible that they just have to be magic: (tags:magic cards video impressive )
4. Women comparing themselves with 'perfect' genitals in porn is contributing to a 300% rise in labiaplasty: (tags:genitals vagina surgery porn society )
5. Who knew octopi would be so clingy?: (tags:octopus cute video )
6. Epic's new motion-capture animation tech has to be seen to be believed: (tags:motioncapture impressive faces )
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): (tags:drwho games )
11. Nearly one in five people find everyday sounds intolerable: (tags:sound psychology )
12. A machine that learns to play noughts and crosses, built from 304 matchboxes: (tags:ai games )

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Interesting Links for 10-01-2023

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): (tags:restaurant food work business inequality )
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: (tags:LGBT words language sex vagina )
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): (tags:hplovecraft octopus perception humans )
9. Almost 90% of games sold in UK in 2022 were digital: (tags:games internet business uk )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4064452.html

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Interesting Links for 21-03-2021

This is a decent background on the mess going on with the SNP at the moment: (tags:Scotland snp )
£1m-plus PPE contract handed to Tory donor's firm still kept secret one year later: (tags:UK conservatives corruption )
Some fascinating developments in understanding and working with mouse and human embryos: (tags:pregnancy mice humans research )
Infinite Nature: Perpetual View Generation of Natural Scenes from a Single Image: (tags:impressive ai nature video )
People are sharing the useless mental health advice from their GPs: (tags:mentalhealth healthcare awful )
Giant octopus moves in to Edinburgh's Sick Kids hospital: (tags:Edinburgh octopus children hospital )
Here's Google embedding sexism in its translation software: (tags:Google sexism OhForFucksSake translation )
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: (tags:visa fees UK Europe )
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?: (tags:pandemic vaccination UK )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3826778.html

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Interesting Links for 27-09-2019

Marvel mastermind Kevin Feige to develop new Star Wars film: (tags:StarWars )
What *really* happens to people when they're exposed to a vacuum?: (tags:vacuum space )
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: (tags:housing harrypotter )
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: (tags:politics fascism UK )
Infinity is too a number: (tags:mathematics infinity )
TikTok's local moderation guidelines ban pro-LGBT content: (tags:LGBT censorship apps OhForFucksSake )
Boris Johnson could bypass key law blocking no-deal Brexit by issuing order to suspend it: (tags:politics law uk )
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: (tags:law politics UK )
Japan Airlines will tell you where the baby on board is sitting: (tags:babies transport Japan airplanes )
Uber stopped its own investigators from reporting crimes to the police: (tags:OhForFucksSake crime business )
Prehistoric Babies Drank Animal Milk From Bottles: (tags:babies prehistory milk archeology )
Man catches monster tuna worth almost â‚¬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: (tags:racism bbc )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3803549.html

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Interesting Links for 30-06-2019

Boeing's 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers: (tags:engineering design software outsourcing airplanes )
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?: (tags:UK funny )
Researchers model how octopus arms make decisions (and talk to each other without informing the brain): (tags:octopus communication nerves neuroscience )
Britain: Ruined since the 5th century: (tags:history uk )
Scotland's only breast milk bank is looking for volunteers: (tags:milk breastfeeding scotland )
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: (tags:Transgender LGBT uk )
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: (tags:Jobs games OhForFucksSake )
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): (tags:scotland specialeffects movies )
How tea killed the fairies: (tags:tea myths )
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): (tags:renewables electricity thefuture )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3726743.html

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Interesting Links for 24-09-2018

Majority Of Voters Back Urgent Reform Of Westminster System: (tags: reform voting uk )
Why it matters that Bert and Ernie are gay, which they are: (tags: lgbt muppets SesameStreet )
Octopuses on MDMA reveal genetic evolution link to human social behaviors: (tags: social octopus ecstasy psychology )
Continental Drift - It's amazing how recent anything even vaguely resembling modern continents arise: (tags: geology geography video time )
How the World Map Looks Wildly Different Than You Think: (tags: video maps world size )
Solar panels replaced tarmac on a motorway. Here are the results.: (tags: solarpower roads fail )
App update rejected for mentioning iPhone XR in release notes: (tags: apple wtf )
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: (tags: comics penis censorship )
Malware Disguised as Job Offers Distributed on Freelance Sites: (tags: jobs malware virus OhForFucksSake )
“Unadoptable” shelter cats get second chance at life by chasing mice: (tags: cats mice jobs )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3629470.html

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Interesting Links for 29-10-2017

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: (tags: frogs history )
Russian 'methbot' fraud steals $180 million in online ads: (tags: advertising fraud web )
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: (tags: food delivery uk )
Dogs may protect against childhood eczema and asthma: (tags: children dogs asthma eczema )
Octopuses! Invade! Wales!: (tags: Wales octopus )
Look to Sheffield: this is how state and corporate power subvert democracy: (tags: democracy business uk OhForFucksSake )
Delaware's Odd, Beautiful, Contentious, Private Utopia: (tags: law usa freedom weird society )
The Scientific Case for P≠NP: (tags: mathematics frogs science )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3564305.html

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Interesting Links for 31-03-2017

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: (tags: movies statistics visualisation )
Cat ownership rise driven by men: (tags: cats uk )
Transgender World War Two veteran Patricia Davies lived a lie: (tags: lgbt wwii )
Make this the year you go to Beltane Fire Festival (30th anniversary!): (tags: beltane edinburgh )
Why you should always put a coin in the freezer before you leave home: (tags: food health electricity holidays )
OMG! Sharknado is real!: (tags: sharks weather )
Most Scots say Holyrood should decide on referendum: (tags: scotland independence )
Giant 4m octopus filmed for the first time: (tags: octopus video )
UK raids as Dutch prosecutors launch tax evasion investigation: (tags: tax netherlands uk )
Another teaser for season 7 of Game of Thrones. They really are giving nothing away: (tags: gameofthrones video )
Verizon Announces Plans to Install Spyware on All Its Android Phones: (tags: OhForFucksSake privacy phones )
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.
(tags: europe scotland independence )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3378317.html

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Interesting Links for 13-12-2015

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Interesting Links for 18-08-2015

Evolution 101: No, an Octopus is not an Alien
- (tags: octopus aliens science evolution OhForFucksSake viaCipherGoth )
Linux "suspend" functionality seems to be remarkably broken
- (tags: linux technology computers power usb )
Now we can read burned books, by examining the ashes.
- (tags: books fire history xrays viaTheWeaselKing )
What's your least favourite fetish?
- (tags: fetish sex BartCalendar )
Windows 10 Won’t Run Games Using SafeDisc Or Securom DRM
- (tags: Windows drm games )
Just to be clear - we still don't know if video games make people violent
- (tags: violence games psychology research )
Whatever happened to the woman who discovered what the universe is made from?
- (tags: hydrogen science women )
Decertifying the worst voting machine in the US
- (tags: voting technology USA epicfail )
Everything You've Heard About Chastity Belts Is a Lie
- (tags: sex history myths )
Technology has created more jobs than it has destroyed, says 140 years of data
- (tags: technology jobs history )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3248168.html

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Interesting Links for 08-03-2015

Security: Toddler vs Phone Lock
(tags: phones children viaDrDoug )
Felons, addicts, immigrants: This bakery will hire anyone
(tags: jobs drugs crime )
Mindfulness stress reduction may reduce fasting glucose in overweight and obese women
(tags: glucose obesity weight stress mindfulness )
The future of 999
(tags: police emergency phones communication )
Scottish Labour referring to the Scottish First Minister as a "Wee lassie with a tin helmet on"
(tags: Labour Scotland OhForFucksSake )
Ants! On! Stilts! (For! Science!)
(tags: ants science )
The Single Biggest Reason I’m Still A Lib Dem
(tags: politics voting reform libdem uk )
Gwyneth Paltrow is right: there is a "secret organ" you've been ignoring
(tags: organs )
Yacouba Sawadogo - The Man Who Stopped the Desert
(tags: desert environment trees )
Flexbox in 5 minutes (nearer 15, but well worth it)
(tags: web tutorial design css )
Company Growth: Why everything breaks at 25 employees
(tags: business growth communication change )
A meditation on chronic pain
(tags: pain )
Octopus steals camera, takes photo of researcher
(tags: octopus )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3054214.html

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Interesting Links for 25-02-2014

BT's 21CN not fit for purpose?
(tags: bt internet uk )
Octopus can't sleep because of light, starts breaking it every night.
(tags: octopus intelligence )
What does the Russian media think of the situation in Ukraine
(tags: ukraine russia media )
How are bankers getting around the EU pay curb
(tags: europe banking bonus pay )
The truth about the luxury of Qatar Airways
(tags: qatar work airlines )
How accurate are Alex Salmond's claims on Scotland's Oil?
(tags: Oil scotland )
Game developers and their cats – in pictures
(tags: games cats )
Belief in hell makes you less happy.
(tags: happiness hell religion )
Single-sex education doesn't actually offer any advantage over coed schools
(tags: education gender )
Bitcoin's life-or-death moment
(tags: bitcoin regulation )
How ARM Holdings Dominates the Chip World
(tags: arm intel computers history )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/2918727.html

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Interesting Links for 24-05-2013

SAP in search of autistic software engineers who 'think different'
(tags: autism )
How an Entirely New, Autistic Way of Thinking Powers Silicon Valley
(tags: computers autism )
What does the next generation of mobile internet look like?
(tags: internet phones )
EU shelves plans to ban refillable olive oil jugs
(tags: europe )
If you commit a crime, for goodness sake don't boast about it on Twitter afterwards!
(tags: bicycles EpicStupidity twitter viafanf )
The Problem with 'Boys Will Be Boys'
(tags: children gender )
Sometimes it is not a good idea to send people pictures of your cat
(tags: cats funny )
What parents miss when their children come home from college
(tags: children parenting )
How to speak to Geeks
(tags: politeness geeks )
Real life octopus/dolphin snuggling.
(tags: dolphins octopus )
What are people's top five financial regrets?
(tags: money finance )
Race, Intelligence, and Genetics For Curious Dummies
(tags: genetics race intelligence )
Eric Weinstein may have found the answer to physics' biggest problems
(tags: physics )
Edinburgh trams: Overhead cables to go up during summer
(tags: trams edinburgh )
The $99 Ouya Is No PlayStation or Xbox, and That's Just Fine
(tags: consoles android )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/2616408.html

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Interesting Links for 03-01-2012

Combining images from Disney movies with drunken text messages for sheer internet awesomeness!
(tags: disney alcohol text funny )
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.
(tags: webgl javascript html5 3d graphics water )
This is what it looks like when the largest city in the Southern Hemisphere bans advertising
(tags: brazil advertising saopaulo )
Belarus makes it illegal to use non-Belarusian websites.
(tags: belarus internet censorship law )
A fascinating piece on the lead hacker behind the world's busiest spam botnet
(tags: spam hacking )
Invisible Undersea Monster Makes Marine Biologist Scream
(tags: octopus video biology camouflage )