![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Interesting Links for 13-10-2020
Oct. 13th, 2020 12:00 pm- Anyone in Edinburgh want an a IT admin role and know both Windows and Linux?
- (tags:Jobs Edinburgh computers Windows Linux )
- The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture
- (tags:colour sculpture history Roman greece racism )
- How archeology is used for nationalism
- (tags:archeology nationalism viaDanielDWilliam )
- Old Government advert suggesting ballet dancer could retrain is one of several from 2019. The internet is still outraged, of course
- https://mobile.twitter.com/eleanormia/status/1315586377703190528 for more of them.
(tags:advertising jobs anger technology ) - Former Senate Majority Leader Confirms Federal Government Covered Up UFOs For Years
- (tags:USA ufo )
- Solar meets 100 percent of South Australia demand for first time
- (tags:Australia solarpower )
- You can buy these grapes, but there are a few rules you need to know first... (because they're patented)
- (tags:food rules OhForFucksSake patents )
- U S. COVID Cases since June by state partisanship
- (tags:ViaDrCross visualisation pandemic USA politics )
- Scientists discover why mosquitoes are so attracted to human blood
- (tags:blood mosquito )
- Leaders Can Feel Licensed To Behave Badly When They Have Morally Upstanding Followers
- (tags:psychology morality behaviour leadership )
Tags:
- advertising,
- anger,
- archeology,
- australia,
- behaviour,
- blood,
- colour,
- computers,
- edinburgh,
- food,
- greece,
- history,
- jobs,
- leadership,
- links,
- linux,
- morality,
- mosquito,
- nationalism,
- ohforfuckssake,
- pandemic,
- patents,
- politics,
- psychology,
- racism,
- roman,
- rules,
- sculpture,
- solarpower,
- technology,
- ufo,
- usa,
- viadanieldwilliam,
- viadrcross,
- visualisation,
- windows
Interesting Links for 01-06-2019
Jun. 1st, 2019 02:51 pm- New research links autism and brain cancer
- (tags:cancer brain autism )
- Madrid could become first European city to scrap low-emissions zone after right-wing politicians say that pollution is "part of life"
- (tags:pollution spain cities OhForFucksSake )
- German Political Leader Questions YouTubers' Right To Tell Fans Not To Vote For Her Party, Urgently Summons Her Advisers In Response -- By Fax
- (tags:politics Germany Technology )
- Anti vax movement: Russian trolls fueled anti-vaccination debate in U.S. by spreading misinformation on Twitter
- (tags:Russia vaccination OhForFucksSake twitter )
- If you're wondering how the woolly mammoth went extinct...
- (tags:animals prehistory viaLProven extinction )
- Re-routing of Loyalist marches upheld by courts
- (tags:religion scotland )
- Conservatives funding crisis as party loses Brexit donors
- (tags:conservatives money GoodNews )
- Milwaukee County officials sign resolution formally declaring racism as a public health crisis
- (tags:health racism usa )
- Childhood Adversity Linked to Earlier Puberty, Premature Brain Development
- (tags:inequality development brain )
- Google's PageRank patent has expired
- (tags:Google algorithms patents )
- Did your know that Airplane was largely a spoof of a specific film: 'Zero Hour' ?
- (tags:spoof airplanes movies )
- UK refuses visas for a dozen Edinburgh book festival authors
- (tags:UK immigration OhForFucksSake Edinburgh festival )
Tags:
- airplanes,
- algorithms,
- animals,
- autism,
- brain,
- cancer,
- cities,
- conservatives,
- development,
- edinburgh,
- extinction,
- festival,
- germany,
- goodnews,
- google,
- health,
- immigration,
- inequality,
- links,
- money,
- movies,
- ohforfuckssake,
- patents,
- politics,
- pollution,
- prehistory,
- racism,
- religion,
- russia,
- scotland,
- spain,
- spoof,
- technology,
- twitter,
- uk,
- usa,
- vaccination,
- vialproven
Interesting Links for 10-01-2018
Jan. 10th, 2018 12:00 pm- What Is MicroLED and When am I Going to Get It?
- (tags: tv Technology led thefuture )
- Koreas agree military talks to defuse border tension
- (tags: korea NorthKorea GoodNews )
- Just-Eat replaces credit-card charge with...service charge
- (tags: money food uk )
- Luxury retirement village in Granton (Edinburgh) given green light
- (tags: edinburgh scotland housing uk )
- The Edinburgh neighbourhood that's home to billions of pounds of illegal activity and money laundering
- (tags: edinburgh money OhForFucksSake )
- Brain Surgery in 3-D: Coming Soon to the Operating Theater
- (tags: surgery 3d Technology )
- No tracking, no revenue: Apple's privacy feature costs ad companies millions (yay!)
- (tags: advertising Apple privacy GoodNews )
- Virgin West Coast train firm stops selling Daily Mail
- (tags: DailyMail virgin trains )
- "The day I accidentally killed a little boy"
- (tags: death children cars accident )
- Prime Minister has to tell apparently grown adults that bullying people is not ok.
- (tags: bullying politics society )
- How to Take a Picture of a Stealth Bomber Over the Rose Bowl
- (tags: photography airplanes impressive )
- Lessons from the history of radio, and why the internet needs to learn them.
- (tags: internet radio technology communication Nazis war propaganda surveillance )
- How George Lucas influenced Star Wars: The Last Jedi
- (tags: StarWars georgelucas )
- Andrew Hickey reads Fire and Fury so you don't have to
- (tags: usa politics OhForFucksSake review )
- Why dolphins are deep thinkers (They work for fish - and then learn how to game the system)
- (tags: dolphins Intelligence )
- In contrast to Theresa May: here’s how Clement Attlee went about a sacking
- (tags: politics jobs history )
- The Subtle Misogyny in Anti-Goth Makeovers
- (tags: goth fashion society patriarchy )
- Some friends are on a cruise around the antarctic. Some of the photos are awesome.
- (tags: antarctic photos )
- This is my favourite 2016 election map
- (tags: maps politics elections usa xkcd )
- Designing consent for the GDPR is onerous - and that's a good thing
- (tags: consent privacy web surveillance europe )
- In 1936 a doctor injected King George V so his death would be in time for the morning papers
- (tags: royalty uk death history )
- Institutional racism is when changing your name from "Jasmeet" to "Millie" means you suddenly get job interviews...
- (tags: names racism uk jobs )
- Tim Sweeney on the First Version of the Unreal Editor
- (tags: games tools Technology )
- Researchers have tested ways to reduce the collective blaming of Muslims for extremism
- (tags: psychology islam terrorism )
- Michael Barnier asks important questions about Brexit and what comes after
- (tags: uk europe )
- The Fight For Patent-Unencumbered Media Codecs Is Nearly Won
- (tags: videos Technology patents GoodNews )
Tags:
- 3d,
- accident,
- advertising,
- airplanes,
- antarctic,
- apple,
- bullying,
- cars,
- children,
- communication,
- consent,
- dailymail,
- death,
- dolphins,
- edinburgh,
- elections,
- europe,
- fashion,
- food,
- games,
- georgelucas,
- goodnews,
- goth,
- history,
- housing,
- impressive,
- intelligence,
- internet,
- islam,
- jobs,
- korea,
- led,
- links,
- maps,
- money,
- names,
- nazis,
- northkorea,
- ohforfuckssake,
- patents,
- patriarchy,
- photography,
- photos,
- politics,
- privacy,
- propaganda,
- psychology,
- racism,
- radio,
- review,
- royalty,
- scotland,
- society,
- starwars,
- surgery,
- surveillance,
- technology,
- terrorism,
- thefuture,
- tools,
- trains,
- tv,
- uk,
- usa,
- videos,
- virgin,
- war,
- web,
- xkcd
Interesting Links for 18-06-2017
Jun. 18th, 2017 12:00 pm- On Empathy And Autism
- (tags: empathy autism )
- NASA's Wild Fabric Is Basically Chain Mail From the Future
- (tags: materials nasa Technology )
- If regulations were followed, the Grenfell Tower inferno should have been impossible
- (tags: architecture design fire safety epicfail OhForFucksSake uk regulation )
- Amazon has a patent to keep you from comparison shopping while you’re in its stores
- (tags: amazon patents OhForFucksSake )
- "Out for the Count: What I learned At the Election Counts."
- (tags: elections voting scotland )
- "Please Make Yourselves at Home in My Airbnb and Have Sex"
- (tags: sex housing funny )
- Tories refused to build new social housing because of Labour voter fears
- (tags: politics housing uk )
- Woman who urged her boyfriend to commit suicide found guilty in his death
- (tags: death suicide law usa )
Interesting Links for 16-05-2017
May. 16th, 2017 12:00 pm- If you really want a keyboard Android phone then Blackberry's KeyOne is your last, best, hope
- (tags: phones )
- All the projects Google is working on
- (tags: google Technology )
- George R R Martin on the Game of Thrones spinoffs
- (tags: gameofthrones GeorgeRRMartin tv )
- John Varley finally finishes Irontown Blues!
- (tags: books scifi )
- MP3s are not dead. They're free.
- I got very, very annoyed with the reporting around this.
(tags: mp3 Technology patents journalism ) - A great dissection of Trump giving highly-classified information to Russia
- (tags: russia spying security usa OhForFucksSake )
- Programming Sucks (Particularly relevant with the attacks this week)
- It's hyperbolic, but not by as much as you'd think.
(tags: programming OhForFucksSake )
Tags:
- books,
- gameofthrones,
- georgerrmartin,
- google,
- journalism,
- links,
- mp3,
- ohforfuckssake,
- patents,
- phones,
- programming,
- russia,
- scifi,
- security,
- spying,
- technology,
- tv,
- usa
Interesting Links for 21-03-2017
Mar. 21st, 2017 12:00 pm- As an Ally I Only Masturbate to Pornography Featuring POC
- (tags: race porn satire funny )
- A 48-hour sexual afterglow helps to bond partners over time
- (tags: sex relationships psychology )
- Running Delivery Trucks on Trolley Wires Isn’t as Crazy as It Sounds
- (tags: transport electricity )
- "Sorry for the Delayed Response"
- (tags: email apology funny )
- Edinburgh's getting a new airport bus route, from Ocean Terminal
- (tags: edinburgh transport buses )
- At midnight on March 20, 2017, Dolby's last relevant patent on Dolby Digital expired.
- (tags: patents GoodNews Technology audio )
Tags:
- apology,
- audio,
- buses,
- edinburgh,
- electricity,
- email,
- funny,
- goodnews,
- links,
- patents,
- porn,
- psychology,
- race,
- relationships,
- satire,
- sex,
- technology,
- transport
Interesting Links for 08-09-2016
Sep. 8th, 2016 12:00 pm- Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children
- (tags: Intelligence children mathematics )
- Our assumption that spacetime is a continuum leads to many challenges in mathematical physics
- (tags: mathematics physics )
- People are switching to drinking water. Drinks companies reportedly not happy
- (tags: water drinking business )
- A 16-year-old British girl earns £48,000 helping Chinese people name their babies
- (tags: viaSwampers names china )
- Artist-in-residence stuck on bankrupt container ship that no port will accept
- (tags: ocean business ship art )
- Unwieldy LEGO Sculptures Reveal a Multitude of Hidden Shadow Designs
- (tags: lego light design )
- High variability suggests glycemic index is unreliable indicator of blood sugar response
- (tags: sugar food carbohydrates )
- Is sufficient sleep the key to successful antidepressant response?
- (tags: sleep depression antidepressants )
- Acetaminophen (paracetamol) not associated with worse asthma in kids -- ScienceDaily
- (tags: asthma drugs )
- Brand-name drugs, drug patents, and how do we get good quality drugs for less?
- (tags: drugs patents intellectual_property economics )
- Shakespeare's language not as original as dictionaries think
- (tags: shakespeare language history )
- Fasting for three days can regenerate entire immune system, study finds
- (tags: immune_system food )
Tags:
- antidepressants,
- art,
- asthma,
- business,
- carbohydrates,
- children,
- china,
- depression,
- design,
- drinking,
- drugs,
- economics,
- food,
- history,
- immune_system,
- intellectual_property,
- intelligence,
- language,
- lego,
- light,
- links,
- mathematics,
- names,
- ocean,
- patents,
- physics,
- shakespeare,
- ship,
- sleep,
- sugar,
- viaswampers,
- water
Interesting Links for 11-04-2016
Apr. 11th, 2016 12:00 pm- Africa's great opportunity for reform
- (tags: africa government Education tax economy )
- The Largest Ever Analysis of Film Dialogue by Gender: 2,000 scripts, 25,000 actors, 4 million lines
- (tags: gender data research visualisation movies )
- Bitcoin Start-Up Gets an Electronic Money License in Britain (possibly cheaper way to convert pounds to dollars too)
- (tags: bitcoin uk banking money )
- A Faerie Guide To Edinburgh. (It's all true. Every word of it)
- (tags: edinburgh funny video )
- Complete History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris
- A classsic. Which I hadn't watched in years
(tags: games history video russia ) - Otters! In! Snow!
- (tags: cute animals )
- Scottish newspaper reveals identity of superinjunction couple
- (tags: censorship uk scotland law newspapers )
- Ego depletion, an influential theory in psychology, may have just been debunked.
- (tags: psychology research )
- Avoid empathy burnout by understanding someone’s pain without feeling it yourself
- (tags: empathy psychology advice emotions )
- Probably the best article I've read on cryonics
- (tags: death thefuture Technology )
- Earbuds that can transform the sounds that surround you.
- (tags: sound Technology )
- Sometimes you're the bunny, sometimes you're the hawk
- (tags: animals life )
- The Dalek/Cybermen sass-off is still one of my favourite scenes in all of Doctor Who
- (tags: drwho funny )
- Toronto is a glitch in The Matrix
- (tags: canada architecture )
- All Prior Art algorithmically creates all possible new prior art, thereby making the concepts not patentable
- (tags: art patents )
- HMRC chief was partner at law firm that acted for Cameron offshore fund
- (tags: tax davidcameron uk OhForFucksSake )
- Yet another US president realises that if you remove a government you need to be prepared for the aftermath
- (tags: usa middle_east epicfail libya )
- Online Dating and the Death of the 'Mixed-Attractiveness' Couple
- (tags: relationships dating beauty attraction internet )
Tags:
- advice,
- africa,
- animals,
- architecture,
- art,
- attraction,
- banking,
- beauty,
- bitcoin,
- canada,
- censorship,
- cute,
- data,
- dating,
- davidcameron,
- death,
- drwho,
- economy,
- edinburgh,
- education,
- emotions,
- empathy,
- epicfail,
- funny,
- games,
- gender,
- government,
- history,
- internet,
- law,
- libya,
- life,
- links,
- middle_east,
- money,
- movies,
- newspapers,
- ohforfuckssake,
- patents,
- psychology,
- relationships,
- research,
- russia,
- scotland,
- sound,
- tax,
- technology,
- thefuture,
- uk,
- usa,
- video,
- visualisation
Interesting Links for 01-04-2016
Apr. 1st, 2016 12:00 pm- There's a beauty contest for women in tech called IT Princess
- (tags: princess beauty computers OhForFucksSake )
- Bugs in our code? No waaaay....
- (tags: coding programming computers )
- An LJ suggestion I made in _2013_ has finally been posted.
- (tags: livejournal twitter )
- How to be the perfect rape victim
- (tags: rape viaTheFerrett )
- ‘Bloody do-gooder’ desperately confused as to why this is a bad thing
- (tags: society funny viaCipherGoth )
- 25 Superhero Films Just As Bad As Batman vs Superman
- (tags: movies bad superheroes )
- Mathematicians mapped out every “Game of Thrones” relationship to find the main character
- (tags: mathematics network gameofthrones )
- GlaxoSmithKline to 'drop patents in poor countries for better drug access'
- (tags: drugs healthcare patents )
- Is it better to treat mentally ill people in the community, or to lock them up?
- (tags: mentalhealth healthcare freedom )
- Scotland to give legal recognition to people who are neither male nor female
- (tags: Scotland identity gender )
- How Batman vs Superman should have gone
- (tags: batman superman funny comic )
- Shiny: A very entertaining stop-motion short (albeit with a couple of bits that annoyed me)
- (tags: video animation viaSkreidle )
- Watchmen April Fools is the best April Fools
- (tags: funny watchmen photoshop )
- 22 Teachers Caught Being Awesome
- (tags: teaching funny )
- Best explanation of alignment charts that I've seen in a long time
- (tags: roleplaying morality )
- Government announces separate internets for annoying people
- (tags: internet funny )
- April Fool's Day: 10 stories that look like pranks but aren't
- (tags: news funny )
- Satirical website not really sure what to do today
- (tags: news satire funny viaTaheerah )
Tags:
- animation,
- bad,
- batman,
- beauty,
- coding,
- comic,
- computers,
- drugs,
- freedom,
- funny,
- gameofthrones,
- gender,
- healthcare,
- identity,
- internet,
- links,
- livejournal,
- mathematics,
- mentalhealth,
- morality,
- movies,
- network,
- news,
- ohforfuckssake,
- patents,
- photoshop,
- princess,
- programming,
- rape,
- roleplaying,
- satire,
- scotland,
- society,
- superheroes,
- superman,
- teaching,
- twitter,
- viaciphergoth,
- viaskreidle,
- viataheerah,
- viatheferrett,
- video,
- watchmen
Interesting Links for 09-10-2015
Oct. 9th, 2015 12:00 pm- Uncovering The Secret History Of Myers-Briggs
- Women are made more jealous by emotional infidelity than sexual unfaithfulness, Norwegian study suggests
- Main Linux problems on the desktop (2015 edition)
- Gut microorganisms cause gluten-induced pathology in mouse model of celiac disease
- 'Liking' on Facebook is about to get interesting with new 'reactions' emoticons
- Winston Churchill's exploding chocolate bar, and other Nazi boobytraps
- The Righteous Anger of Girls (by Daniel Handler/Lemony Snicket)
- People listen to angry women less
- Epigenetics used to predict sexuality in 70% of sample group
- Stunning video of whales swimming under the Aurora Borealis
- Amazing GIF of a moulting tarantula.
- No, I can't get it out of my head either. Brrrrr
- Python overtakes French as the most popular language taught in primary schools
- Political Madness Gone Correct
- Gene patents probably dead worldwide following Australian court decision
- Chromoscope - the milky way as viewed at different wavelengths of light
- What is it like to experience mental illness?
- David Cameron calls Osama Bin Laden's death 'a tragedy'
Tags:
- anger,
- astronomy,
- auroraborealis,
- celiac,
- cheating,
- computers,
- conservatives,
- davidcameron,
- desktop,
- emoticons,
- emotion,
- epicwin,
- epigenetics,
- experience,
- facebook,
- freespeech,
- gender,
- genes,
- genetics,
- gluten,
- history,
- language,
- lgbt,
- light,
- links,
- linux,
- mentalhealth,
- microbiome,
- myers_briggs,
- norway,
- ohforfuckssake,
- osamabinladen,
- patents,
- personality,
- politics,
- relationships,
- school,
- sex,
- sexuality,
- sky,
- society,
- space,
- spiders,
- students,
- traps,
- uk,
- viajennierigg,
- video,
- wales,
- weapons,
- women,
- wwii
Interesting Links for 27-09-2015
Sep. 27th, 2015 12:00 pm- The Netflix Chaos Engineering approach is damned impressive
- Exxon Confirmed Global Warming Consensus in 1982 with In-House Climate Models
- David Cameron ignored Tory MPs - and his mum - over legalisation of marriage equality
- Block EU Cookie Notices with Adblock
- U.S. won't stop Native Americans from growing, selling pot on their lands
- 19 Things You'll Only Understand If You're Absolutely Fucking Terrified Of Spiders
- Battered woman will stay in prison for failing to protect her kids from the abuser (released 9 years ago).
- The War Over Genome Editing Just Got a Lot More Interesting
- Color film was built for white people. It really didn't cope well with dark skin
- Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds look amazing
- "Still did their job" vs "Just following orders"
Tags:
- abuse,
- adblock,
- beauty,
- cloud,
- colour,
- conservatives,
- cookies,
- davidcameron,
- engineering,
- epicfail,
- failure,
- genetics,
- globalwarming,
- history,
- jobs,
- law,
- legalisation,
- lgbt,
- links,
- marijuana,
- marriage,
- morality,
- netflix,
- patents,
- politics,
- race,
- spiders,
- technology,
- usa,
- vialiamproven,
- viaphilmophlegm,
- video
Interesting Links for 02-09-2015
Sep. 2nd, 2015 12:00 pm- Scotland's only Lib-Dem MP is going on trial - on TV!
- Originally posted as "Scotland's only Lib-Dem is going to trial". Which would be close, but not entirely accurate
- I found the person who created the pyramid joke I went viral with! (Or rather, they found me)
- The finest Batman story of all time
- Slapstick frog is incompetent
- Forging an Alliance for Royalty-Free Video
- Starry Night. Now in both swirly and sparkly editions
- On the new web, get used to paying for subscriptions
- Refugee crisis: Five obstacles to an EU deal
- J.K. Rowling sorts James Sirius Potter and Teddy Lupin into Hogwarts houses
- 7 Simple Things You Can Do Right Now To Make Your Computer Run Faster
- A fascinating discussion of what it's like working with really obsolete technology/computers
Tags:
- advertising,
- animated_gif,
- art,
- batman,
- business,
- computers,
- europe,
- frog,
- funny,
- harrypotter,
- history,
- immigration,
- law,
- links,
- money,
- obsolescence,
- patents,
- politics,
- reality,
- refugee,
- satire,
- scotland,
- technology,
- tv,
- twitter,
- viajohnbobshaun,
- video,
- vincentvangogh,
- viral,
- web
Interesting Links for 24-09-2014
Sep. 24th, 2014 12:00 pm- Norway is basically paying Liberia to not chop down its trees
- So: who will lead the Con-Lab Grand Coalition that will be formed in May 2015?
- Why aren't the British middle-classes staging a revolution?
- I would love to know how many attempts this took (I assume they worked it backwards)
- Amazing cakes
- How 'Let It Go' Saved 'Frozen's' Elsa From Being a Villain
- Texas Court Makes Upskirts Mandatory, Outlaws Kittens, Hates Your Mother
- What it's like having a body clock that keeps you up until 3am
- You should use WebRTC for your 1-on-1 video meetings
- Another Patent Troll Slain. You Are Now Free To Rotate Your Smartphone.
- Red Plenty - Why the Societ Union's centrally planned state failed
- How to complete Snake. (I am _agog_)
Tags:
Interesting Links for 07-09-2014
Sep. 7th, 2014 12:00 pm- When nursing homes don't understand probability you have a problem.
- One in five child deaths in England preventable - worst countries for child death also the most unequal
- Fast-paced TV shows don't harm preschoolers' concentration
- A recent supreme court ruling on patents has wide-reaching effects
- Reuters has carried out a massive investigation into rising sea levels. Can you guess what they found?
- How IPv6 knocked a chunk of the MIT network offline
- How app developers use "viral loops" to pull in more users
- BBC1 viewers have a median age of 59. On BBC2 it's 60.
- TV is increasingly for old people
- Playboy weighs in on the nude celebrity thefts
- I am a dog addict. Posts like this are basically my methadone
- Changing history in a useful way is _hard_
- YouGov release their first poll to show Yes in the lead.
- Interview with an Auschwitz Guard: 'I Do Not Feel Like a Criminal'
- Against Primaries
- Police telling victims to solve crimes by themselves
- How is a binary executable organized? Let's explore it!
Tags:
- addiction,
- age,
- auschwitz,
- bbc,
- celebrity,
- children,
- computers,
- concentration,
- death,
- dogs,
- elections,
- files,
- globalwarming,
- healthcare,
- history,
- holocaust,
- independence,
- inequality,
- internet,
- interview,
- ipv6,
- jews,
- law,
- links,
- marketing,
- nazis,
- nudity,
- ocean,
- patents,
- playboy,
- police,
- politics,
- polls,
- probability,
- scifi,
- scotland,
- suicide,
- timetravel,
- tv,
- uk,
- usa,
- viral,
- voting,
- wtf
Interesting Links for 20-06-2014
Jun. 20th, 2014 12:00 pm- What do the polls look like in Conservative/Lib Dem marginals?
- Benefit cuts for the young - are the Conservatives and Labour in secret agreement?
- Scottish Independence Would Wreck UK-US Special Relationship (Does that mean we'd go to war less?)
- Next time someone you know likes or shares a Britain First page, link them to this
- Manfeels Park. Oh, the pain.
- The present, as science fiction
- Supreme Court smashes “do it on a computer” patents in 9-0 opinion
- Cats! On! Dogs!
- 25 Completely Unrealistic Expectations Of Women In Today's World
- The choice that could have been made: a nice take on a moment from the recent finale of GoT
- A review of Heinlein's Future History short stories/novellas.
- New ultrastiff, ultralight material developed (using a design similar to the Eiffel Tower!)
Tags:
Interesting Links for 16-06-2014
Jun. 16th, 2014 12:00 pm- Fish – Now By Prescription
- Have You Hugged a Concrete Pillar Today?
- Mother of ecstasy-death teen calls for legalisation and education
- If you share conspiracy theories on Facebook/Twitter then you are _part of the problem_
- Things you shouldn't crowdfund: #1 An airline.
- Zelda: Wind waker Tech and Texture Analysis
- Photos of Alaska: Then And Now.
- Life with a Toddler
- Starbucks to Provide Free College Education to Thousands of Workers
- The Best of TV: Analyzing IMDB Data on 90,000 TV Series
- Chinese gov’t reveals Microsoft’s secret list of Android-killer patents
- Rich pay 35% of their income in tax, poorest pay 43%
- Green party peer put on database of extremists after police surveillance
- The True Cost of Hidden Money (and what we can do about it)
- Patient sings through surgery to save voice
- What happened to the Northern Conservative Vote?
Tags:
- airlines,
- alaska,
- android,
- billgates,
- business,
- children,
- china,
- comic,
- concrete,
- conservatives,
- conspiracy,
- crowdfunding,
- drugs,
- education,
- facebook,
- fish,
- games,
- globalwarming,
- graphics,
- green,
- healthcare,
- hypnosis,
- legalisation,
- links,
- materials,
- microsoft,
- money,
- patents,
- police,
- politics,
- singing,
- snow,
- socialnetworking,
- surgery,
- surveillance,
- tax,
- tv,
- twitter,
- uk,
- usa,
- zelda
Interesting Links for 30-04-2014
Apr. 30th, 2014 12:00 pm- Edinburgh's St James Centre is being knocked down and rebuilt for £850m - impressive video fly-by!
- EU moves to end smartphone patent wars in landmark ruling
- Apparently shops who display ‘We Don’t Discriminate’ stickers are bullying Christians...
- Found: The Source Of The LJ perpetual loading problem. (Crappy adverts, underhandedly inserted)
- Until fairly recently, nude swimming was common in America
- What's life like, living with three seconds of lag in your vision?
- These Images of POTUS Obama Firing a Gun Have Not Been Manipulated!
- A new study reveals that men are sexually assaulted almost as often as women.
- The simple tests that tell if you’ll live to a ripe old age
- Don't like the food? Try paying more.
- Chronic stress heightens vulnerability to diet-related metabolic risk
- On the Johnson Farage Dilemma
- People rely on what they hear themselves say to know what they're saying
- MIT conducts world's largest Bitcoin experiment
- Let me introduce you to the term "Abuse of Freepost"
- A Motion Sensing Mechanical Keyboard
Tags:
- advertising,
- age,
- aging,
- architecture,
- augmentedreality,
- barackobama,
- bigotry,
- bitcoin,
- christianity,
- conservatives,
- control,
- crime,
- edinburgh,
- epicwin,
- europe,
- exercise,
- food,
- funny,
- guns,
- hearing,
- interface,
- keyboard,
- lgbt,
- links,
- livejournal,
- memory,
- men,
- metabolism,
- money,
- motioncapture,
- nudity,
- patents,
- perception,
- phones,
- photoshop,
- politics,
- psychology,
- rape,
- religion,
- stress,
- sugar,
- swimming,
- thefuture,
- time,
- uk,
- ukip,
- usa,
- viajohnbobshaun,
- video,
- virtualreality
Interesting Links for 06-01-2014
Jan. 6th, 2014 11:00 am- One of Britain's best-known landlords has issued eviction notices to every tenant who is on welfare
- Where The Wild Things Are - Early DISNEY CG Animation Test
- Why we should give free money to everyone
- Fantastic, well-researched, look at the costs and benefits of marijuana legalisation.
- It's a scandal that drug trial results are still being withheld
- High fibre diet relieves asthma (in mice)
- Movies that passed the Bechdel Test made more money than those that didn't
- Destroying Pluralistic Ignorance: How Skeptics Can Break the Cycle of False Beliefs
- How to kill trolls and influence people: A patent solution
- Andrew Ducker’s Annual Link Stats for 2013
- Smartphones versus DSLRs versus film: A look at how far we've come
Tags:
- 3d,
- andrewducker,
- animation,
- art,
- asthma,
- bechdel,
- belief,
- cameras,
- communication,
- diet,
- disney,
- drugs,
- economics,
- gender,
- guaranteedincome,
- housing,
- ignorance,
- intellectual_property,
- internet,
- legalisation,
- links,
- marijuana,
- mice,
- movies,
- patents,
- phones,
- photography,
- poverty,
- research,
- secrecy,
- society,
- uk,
- video,
- welfare
