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Interesting Links for 29-02-2020
Feb. 29th, 2020 12:00 pm- Headline of the day: Children evacuated from swimming pool after prosthetic leg mistaken for paedophile
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- When up means down: why do so many video game players invert their controls?
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- How testing gets autistic children wrong
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- All the ways life has improved since the 1990s
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- Gett: Israeli taxi app sued for service used to avoid Arab drivers
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- Gorgie farm welcomes the Dalry llama
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- Finally, a fix for the Mercator projection!
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Interesting Links for 05-02-2020
Feb. 5th, 2020 12:00 pm- New government plans could see you jailed for life over propaganda
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- Heartbeats and bunnies, how simple repeating patterns lead to chaos (and back again)
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- 'The Good Place,' 'BoJack Horseman,' and the Audacity of Committing to Decency
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- The EU has released a Q & A on the draft negotiating directives
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- Brexit fuelling surge in support for Scottish independence, but work still to be done on currency and economics
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- Children as young as 9 locked up by Indian police for speech violation
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- Graham Linehan is compiling a horrifying database of conversion therapists willing to abuse young trans people
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- Symptomless coronavirus spreader had symptoms after all
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- I'd give this prosthetic three thumbs up
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- 'Happy Brexit Day' Norwich flat residents unite to show support
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- What is SAP? And how are they worth $163Bn?
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- Cats! On! Statues!
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Interesting Links for 15-09-2015
Sep. 15th, 2015 12:44 pm- Prosthetic hand lets man actually feel what he touches for the first time
- Will a robot take your job?
- HMRC reports record £1bn tax take from use of accelerated payment notices
- Malnutrition common in obese people
- Nine out of 10 new diesel cars exceed EU pollution limits (by massive amounts)
- The best idea about Pratchett and the Hugos
- AdultPlayer Android porn app takes photos of you masturbating and then blackmails you
- Real programmers don't use Pascal
- Army of Lame Ducks: Is copyright irrelevant in the viral age?
- I'm fairly sure this video is why the internet was invented
- Football Manager, the World's Most Influential Video Game
- Ron Weasley Made Me Sad (This is the kind of celebrity convention I have no interest in)
- Harry Potter and the set of all sets that do not contain themselves
- George Osborne's biggest benefit cuts are for people who actually have jobs, IFS says
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Interesting Links for 09-09-2015
Sep. 9th, 2015 12:00 pm- White woman accidentally impregnated with black man’s sperm loses legal battle
- Seagate and LaCie wireless hard-drives have open telnet ports. With default passwords.
- New Zealand are apparently now banning books
- There is a PLAGUE UPON THIS NATION, and lo its name is BAD REPORTING ABOUT CATS
- Three recent theories on the word “kibosh”
- Writer/Director Jennifer Westfeldt Splits From Long-Time Trophy Boyfriend
- 32 Things You'll Only Understand If You Went To University In The '90s - (1990-94, I predate some of this)
- The woman with a Furiosa prosthetic (awesome photos in both pages of comments)
- In Their Own Words: An Oral History of Diablo II With David Brevik, Max Schaefer, and Erich Schaefer
- What does summoning a demon sound like?
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Interesting Links for 10-10-2014
Oct. 10th, 2014 12:00 pm- Sex lives of women 'improved' by eating apples
- Devices being remotely wiped in police custody
- Artificial arms get closer to the real thing
- Ebola explained: Just how deadly is the virus, where will the outbreak spread to next – and how can it be stopped?
- Healthy foods are three times as expensive as unhealthy ones - and the difference is growing
- Girls Don't Count
- What is the point of the Labour Party?
- I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds (This really touched me)
- Swedish man first to use mind-controlled prosthetic arm
- Modern malware is incredibly sneaky - checking its environment, and even whether the user is a malware researcher!
- Douglas Carswell becomes Ukip's first ever elected MP
- Is Kindness Physically Attractive?
- Borders to Edinburgh railway: Track laying gets under way
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Interesting Links for 06-02-2014
Feb. 6th, 2014 11:00 am- What would life be like on a torus planet?
- Majority of cuts still to come, says IFS
- Should Netflix bring back channel-surfing?
- Why Mom's Time Is Different From Dad's Time
- Netflix ISP Speed Index
- Your memory rewrites the past and edits it with new experiences
- The comforting tone of the hourly radio pips
- A Side By Side Look at How I Met Your Mother’s Excellent Use of Flashbacks
- Metatextual art
- On Harry, Ron and Hermione
- If you have anything cuter than this then I demand you send it to me at once!
- Cervical cancer vaccine inventor to target herpes
- 11 Emotionally Repressed Valentine's Cards For British People (I'm hoping to get #6)
- LOL and/or Lol! The Internet Has a Style Guide Now
- How a mammoth effort first brought clean water to Edinburgh
- HBO Makes More Money Than Netflix — For Now
- What makes us human? Unique brain area linked to higher cognitive powers
- What do women want? Men with wide faces.
- Artificial arm plugs into nerve endings, giving amputees the ability to feel.
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Interesting Links for 28-02-2012
Feb. 28th, 2012 11:00 am- If you want reproducible science, the software needs to be open source
- We're getting closer to artificual limbs that have sensations
- How much debt would an independent Scotland have?
- The most common cooking mistakes
- People who take Ritalin are far more aware of their mistakes
- 30% of income tax paid by top one per cent of earners. Anyone got comparisons with other countries?
- Beware The Bacon Balrog!
- Man builds hobbit house for just £3,000
- Gender-swapped Dr Who Cosplay. I may need to go lie down for a bit.
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