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Interesting Links for 11-02-2019
Feb. 11th, 2019 12:52 pm- Your Smart TV is a computer. Which means you don't really own it, and it breaks in unpredictable ways.
- (tags:tv Technology fail )
- City polite versus country polite
- (tags:politeness cities )
- Brexit: Thousands of British lorry drivers face being barred from entering EU after missing out on permits
- (tags:UK europe transport doom )
- Plummeting insect numbers threaten collapse of nature
- (tags:insects nature doom )
- New research debunks importance of eye contact
- (tags:psychology eyes )
- Top two-player board/card games, 2019 edition
- (tags:games )
- The Invisible Bunnies That Power World of Warcraft
- (tags:rabbits WorldOfWarcraft viaSwampers )
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Interesting Links for 14-11-2017
Nov. 14th, 2017 12:00 pm- Are British people actually polite?
- (tags: etiquette UK politeness funny true )
- 15% of people are sensitive to bread. But it's not gluten that's upsetting their stomach.
- This is what happened to me. I assumed gluten-sensitive, but my IBS is FODMAPs-related, and discovering that helped me to finally get it under control.
I don't blame people who think they're gluten-sensitive. If you got an upset stomach every time you ate wheat then you'd probably start to think you had a gluten problem too...
(tags: food health gluten viaSwampers ) - Tiny Tiny RSS sends bad threads to "The Gas Chamber"
- (tags: OhForFucksSake Holocaust Technology )
- Ferry McFerryface to be name of new Sydney ferry after public vote
- (tags: names funny viaSwampers )
- Not the comp.text.sgml Frequently Asked Questions List
- I kinda wish I found this less funny
(tags: text Technology funny ) - In 2015, homeowners voted CON 46 LAB 22, mortgage holders CON 39 LAB 31. But social renters voted CON 18 LAB 50, private renters CON 28 LAB 39.
- (tags: housing uk voting politics )
- Working 9 to 5? 66% of Brits would prefer their work day started and ended earlier (I am clearly deeply odd)
- (tags: work time uk )
- Government offers now a meaningless vote on Brexit
- (tags: europe uk government OhForFucksSake )
- A UK Cinema Is Screening Every Episode Of 'Game Of Thrones' Back-To-Back
- I love Game of Thrones, but this is too much.
(tags: cinema gameofthrones ) - Amazon announces Lots of the Rings prequel series
- (tags: Amazon lotr tv )
- The UK Supreme Court has never ruled whether Article 50 can be rescinded
- (tags: UK law europe )
- 'Bros' fight the patriarchy with fliers about consent and housework at Blazers games
- (tags: consent patriarchy society GoodNews men )
- A clear example of the sociopathic nature of the gig economy
- (tags: work OhForFucksSake apps )
- The Post-Weinstein Reckoning
- (tags: women abuse society viaFanf )
- SpotMini - the latest robot dog from Boston Dynamics
- (tags: robots video )
- Against Brilliant Jerks
- (tags: society behaviour teams viaFanf )
- Trade school, not 4-year college, can solve the US income gap
- (tags: Education work money )
- Illegal puppy trade surges in UK ready for Christmas (horrifying!)
- (tags: dogs uk abuse )
- Book Review: Legal Systems Very Different From Ours
- (tags: law society )
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Interesting Links for 10-10-2016
Oct. 10th, 2016 12:00 pm- San Jose: Law would make city first to allow "tiny homes" for homeless
- (tags: homelessness housing usa )
- Single body to advise public on pensions and debt
- (tags: uk pensions debt advice )
- We’re now up to five reports of “safe” Galaxy Note 7s exploding worldwide
- (tags: samsung Technology safety )
- 'Don't feed the trolls' really is good advice – here's the evidence
- (tags: troll psychology behaviour )
- We Drop People Who Give Us Critical Feedback (Despite them actively improving us)
- (tags: information work criticism psychology )
- Why the replication crisis seems worse in psychology.
- (tags: psychology research )
- The future of mobile phone announcements
- (tags: phones Technology thefuture satire comic )
- The Massacre at Monkey Hill (a fascinating story of primate research gone wrong)
- (tags: monkeys anthropology research fail )
- If only everyone used Twitter the way Canadians do
- (tags: Canada internet politeness argument )
- "As A Father of Daughters"
- (tags: women society funny satire )
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Interesting Links for 03-06-2014
Jun. 3rd, 2014 12:00 pm- 23 Words That Have A Totally Different Meaning In Scotland
- Edinburgh trams ‘worth 400 year wait’
- Smokers with gene defect have one in four chance of developing lung cancer
Which I think means that those without it have a 10% chance. Anyone care to check my maths?
- D-day landings scenes in 1944 and now – interactive
- Whether or not Laverne Cox is a woman is not a question of biology; it's a question of language
- Bricksy: LEGO Banksy
- Game of Thrones meets Jeremy Kyle
- The LiveJournal staff want to know - How do you use LiveJournal?
- Why net neutrality is important
- Autism linked to male hormones
- Why walking consumes more gasoline than driving!
- Female hurricanes are deadlier than male hurricanes
- A story of greed, short-sightedness, and legal incompetence. (Scottish Power, in this case)
- A critical look at the data behind the "The female hurricane is more deadly than the male" story
- Labour's fake folksiness and empty slogans speak of snobbery and stupidity
- There's a Reddit for polite discussion between feminists and Men's Right's Activists
- New graphene-reinforced aluminum matrix nanocomposites with tensile and yield strengths 25% and 58% higher than pristine aluminum
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Interesting Links for 12-12-2013
Dec. 12th, 2013 11:00 am- People are targetting malware at high-stakes poker players, so that they can cheat in games against them
- Animated GIFs made from 150-year-old zoetropes
- What does a ten-month-old _really_ want for Christmas?
- David Cameron keeps 'little black book' of policies blocked by Lib Dems
- 24 Rules For Being A Gentleman In 2014 (or, indeed, a good person. Other than #5)
- French cafe offers discounts to polite customers
- Caltech Announces Open Access Policy
- Canada will phase out door to door mail delivery over 5 years
- Yellowstone supervolcano is more than twice as big as previously thought
- Labour moves closer to promise for free childcare for all preschoolers
- Why the MPs pay regulator thinks their pay raise is justified
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Interesting Links for 01-08-2013
Aug. 1st, 2013 12:00 pm- Naked Ladies Infected with Smut!
- How an independent Scotland could revamp the welfare system
- EEGs show different results for autism and Asperger's and Autism
- How copyright prevents access to books from the middle of the 20th century
- The Christian Church sanctified same sex marriages in 100AD
- Swimming in a sea of shit: The Internet’s war against creatives
- Liverpool FC Threaten To Ban Fans Who Say 'Play Like A Girl'
- XKeyscore: The NSA tool that collects nearly everything a user does on the internet
- Porcupines make the cutest noises in the universe.
- Possibly the finest comic about tortoises known to man.
- Trask Industries: Solving Your Future - Today
- Debunking the flags/stats link from yesterday
- 33 Skeletor Affirmations To Start The Day
- Labour leadership attacks the Labour for Independence group.
- Did the Conservative chair just admit to breaking the law?
- Europe's biggest battery to regulate UK renewable energy
- Most toxic behaviour comes from mostly-well-behaved people.
- An app that lets iPhone users take 20 full-resolution photos per second.
- In the world of massive holes, where does Crossrail fit in?
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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 03-04-2013
Apr. 3rd, 2013 12:00 pm- Airline to charge passengers by the kilo.
- Edinburgh to get first new park in 10 years
- A longer life for lithium-sulfur batteries (twice the power/weight ratio of Li-ion)
- The is pretty much how I felt about Saturday's Dr Who.
- To forgive is to give up all hope of a better past.
- The OAuth Bible (mostly bookmarked for me to read later)
- The UK has seven social classes. Which are you? (I'm Established Middle Class, unsurprisingly)
- Scotland has a major skills gap in Computing. Get yerself retrained!
- Banking experts say Scotland should have its own currency (and I agree)
- Strange rock used as a ham press turns out to be $5M meteorite
- The most powerful backbencher in the House of Commons
- Nuclear power has saved 1.84million lives from air pollution
- Haymarket is finally getting redeveloped.
- A mother tongue spoken by millions of Americans still gets no respect.
- Reading is for the love, not just for predetermined info gathering
- If Richard Littlejohn didn’t exist, you’d have to make him up
- How to deal with fat people
- Iain Banks has cancer, and less than a year to live.
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Interesting Links for 22-03-2013
Mar. 22nd, 2013 11:00 am- Public consultation backs lowering drink drive limit in Scotland
- Cyrpus bailout plan: good idea, badly implemented?
- Why Charlie Stross doesn't self-publish (much the same reason I'm not a contractor)
- Trans woman commits suicide after being bullied by the Daily Mail
- What babies do when you think they're going to sleep
- Neil Gaiman on Political Correctness
- Apple's Data Centers Now use 100 Percent Renewable Energy
- UK Supreme Court holds first secret hearing
- The world should welcome electronic cigarettes.
- Women in science: know your limits!
- The racist joke incident (fascinating to see how it's handled)
