Interesting Links for 18-11-2021

Nov. 18th, 2021 12:00 pm
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British pies to be banned from EU unless ingredients come from Brussels-approved farms
(tags:uk safety food europe )
Are Jackson's movies good translations of Tolkien's books?
(tags:lotr movies books )
Dave Chappelle's "Some Of My Best Friends Are Trans" Story Doesn't Hold Up
(tags:LGBT transgender comedy lies )
Boris Johnson's Brexit protocol diverts Northern Irish trade from Britain to Republic
(tags:uk europe ireland NorthernIreland trade )
An emergent improv band forming around a cat drinking milk
(tags:milk cats video music improv viaNancyLebov )
This is why Amazon won't accept UK Visa credit cards from January
(tags:UK visa Amazon credit )
What happened to rock music in 1996?
(tags:music rock history USA radio )
The magic words that control cosplayers
(tags:cosplay conventions )
Mercedes Lackey on trans rights
(tags:LGBT transgender writing )
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Interesting Links for 02-09-2021

Sep. 2nd, 2021 12:00 pm
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The rise of period pants: are they the answer to menstrual landfill - and women's prayers?
(tags:menstruation clothing )
Scots to need vaccine passports for large events
(tags:scotland vaccination pandemic )
Scotland had fourth hottest summer on record
(tags:Scotland temperature )
Round animals!
Anyone complaining that some of them are unhealthy will be roundly booed.
(tags:animals )
Beware of all of these dogs. Their cuteness levels are too high
(tags:dogs cute )
Google's new AI photo technology guesses what details might have been there in a very believable way!
(tags:ai photos )
Pair complete UK's longest straight-line challenge
(tags:uk walking )
White 'old boys' network holding ethnic minority surgeons back from job promotions
(tags:uk racism nhs doctors sexism )
Dogs can distinguish between deliberate acts and accidents
(tags:dogs psychology )
Five Myths About the Taliban's New Arsenal
(tags:taliban afghanistan military viaDanielDWilliam )
What happens to your brain when you give up sugar?
(tags:brain sugar dopamine addiction )
Neil Gaiman's 11 Geekiest Cameo Appearances
(tags:neilgaiman TV radio )
Mayday trailer - Metaphorical sirens as female revenge fantasy. Looks interesting, and rather gorgeously shot.
(tags:women society movies trailer )
I'd wondered why John Varley's "Irontown Blues" hadn't had great reviews. And now I know!
(tags:scifi writing OhForFucksSake publishing )
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Interesting Links for 03-07-2021

Jul. 3rd, 2021 12:00 pm
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New 'Alien' TV Series Will Be Class Warfare With Xenomorphs (from the showrunner of Fargo)
(tags:TV aliens )
Scottish Greens say SQA teaching benefits of climate change
(tags:globalwarming scotland Education )
Loch Ness falls to lowest water level in five years
(tags:LochNess scotland water )
Here's what a Falcon 9 looks like after 8 flights to space in a year
(tags:space recycling Spacex )
Drop-in vaccination clinics to open across mainland Scotland
(tags:Scotland vaccination pandemic )
Five Former Treasury Secretaries: Enable the IRS to fight tax evasion
(tags:tax USA )
Radioactive hybrid terror pigs have made themselves a home in Fukushima's exclusion zone
(tags:pigs radiation Japan headline )
What *is* classic liberalism?
(tags:politics history liberal )
Apps with 5.8 million Google Play downloads stole users' Facebook passwords
(tags:Facebook passwords apps android )
Queer readings of The Lord of the Rings are not accidents
(tags:LGBT lotr history )
Two more cis Black women banned from Olympics for their natural testosterone levels
(tags:women testosterone Olympics OhForFucksSake )
The Gulf of Mexico is on fire
(tags:Mexico sea fire oil )
High Court backs trans women being housed in women's prisons
(tags:LGBT transgender women prison UK )
A useful list of things that have to be explained in writing workshops
(tags:writing advice viaFJM )
English school planning on abusing children
(tags:school abuse UK OhForFucksSake )
When a nerd has a pH monitoring capsule implanted, what else are they going to do but intercept the signals and try to decode them?
(tags:hacks radio technology medicine )
Driver shortage crisis: Major suppliers axe deliveries
(tags:transport UK Europe Doom )
This mudslide in Japan is terrifying
(tags:earth Japan terrifying video )
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Interesting Links for 22-03-2020

Mar. 22nd, 2020 12:00 pm
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Tracking which businesses are treating their employees well and which aren't during the pandemic
(tags:business viaSwampers )
Comixology Unlimited Free Trial Extended to 60 Days
(tags:comics free viaSwampers )
This is Jane during self-isolation
(tags:funny introversion comic pandemic )
Extensive breakfasting is better than a large dinner for preventing obesity
(tags:food time weight )
Map of people's temperatures as detected by smart thermometers
(tags:USA map disease pandemic )
If you ever wondered how a bat pees, you're welcome
(tags:urination bats video )
Is hydrogen the solution to net-zero home heating? (probably not)
(tags:hydrogen heating uk )
Scottish government furious at people traveling to Highlands and Islands to isolate themselves
(tags:Scotland pandemic OhForFucksSake )
Radio interview with an NHS A&E consultant about what it's like doing a shift right now
(tags:NHS pandemic doom radio interview )
Doctor Who and The Unravelling Text
(tags:drwho writing continuity )
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Interesting Links for 14-06-2019

Jun. 14th, 2019 01:49 pm
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Terrible erotica for millennials (the Twister one made me laugh)
(tags:funny erotica writing sex bad )
Radiohead Fans vs. Black-Market Sellers: How the OK Computer Tapes were leaked
(tags:music radiohead )
Most Comprehensive Review To Date Finds The Average Person's Reading Speed Is Slower Than Previously Thought (240 wpm rather than 300)
(tags:reading speed )
Confirmation that politics and discussion shows tell their guests to fight
(tags:argument tv OhForFucksSake radio politics Doom )
When the World's Most Famous Mystery Writer Vanished
(tags:mysteries authors relationships history )
Boris Johnson is heading for Downing Street, but he'll hate the experience as much as we will
(tags:Conservatives politics uk )
Adults Who Played Pokémon Extensively In Childhood Have A Pokémon-Sensitive Region In Their Visual Cortex
(tags:pokemon vision psychology )
A country of purists: the polling which lays bare the death of any compromise on Brexit
(tags:uk europe doom )
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Interesting Links for 22-12-2018

Dec. 22nd, 2018 11:00 am
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World Cup: Almost half world's population watched Russia 2018
(tags: football )
The shampoo bottle saving babies from pneumonia (deaths dropped by 75% for a trivial cost)
(tags: healthcare babies disease india )
The academics and the drone, a tale of hubris.
(tags: academia drone funny )
Analysing 122 Hours of Christmas Radio - from Martin Luther to Michael Bublé
(tags: music christmas radio viaSwampers )
'Wonderful Christmastime' is the worst Christmas song–and quite possibly the worst song–ever
(tags: music christmas awful )
President Trump has made 7,546 false or misleading claims over 700 days
(tags: usa republicans lies )
Terrible news for fans of thinking.
(tags: psychology thought funny )
Origins: Puff the Magic Dragon
(tags: music myths )
Mars Express beams back images of ice-filled Korolev crater
(tags: Mars water ice )
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Interesting Links for 30-10-2018

Oct. 30th, 2018 11:00 am
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The U.S. Catholic Church is facing an unprecedented wave of sex abuse investigations
(tags: abuse catholicism usa crime )
Remainers shouldn't assume EU leaders will welcome another Brexit referendum
(tags: uk europe doom referendum )
What listening to cricket on the radio is like
(tags: cricket funny satire radio )
The OnePlus 6T Review - looks amazing, and if I didn't get a OnePlus 6 recently I'd be getting one. Ah well, next year!
(tags: phones review android )
Archaeologists find 300,000-year-old stone tools in Saudi Arabia
(tags: archeology saudiarabia )
Majority of British public support legalisation of cannabis
(tags: marijuana legalisation UK )
I would feel sorry for the children of these parents. If I wasn't planning on copying several of them...
(tags: viaJane parenting funny )
UK budget takes £400 from poorest and gives it to richest
(tags: money uk Conservatives OhForFucksSake )
Humanity has wiped out 60% of mammals, birds, fish and reptiles since 1970
(tags: apocalypse doom animals environment )
Europe's centre is not holding. People are abandoning it for the far left and right.
This is what you get when standards of living fall, of course.
(tags: politics europe )
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Interesting Links for 22-07-2018

Jul. 22nd, 2018 12:00 pm
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'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' being rebooted, with black showrunner and lead
(tags: buffy tv )
This is my favourite take on The Last Jedi
(tags: StarWars nostalgia )
Rule Explainer: Why We Don’t Diagnose People Through The Internet
(tags: mentalhealth diagnosis internet advice )
Why Is Google Translate Spitting Out Sinister Religious Prophecies?
(tags: translation weird google ai hallucinations )
Psychedelics Promote Structural and Functional Neural Plasticity
(tags: neuroscience psychedelics lsd psychology brain )
Sex Pistols' John Lydon comes out in support of Trump, Brexit and Nigel Farage
(tags: music politics OhForFucksSake SexPistols Europe uk )
Millionaire landlord vows to evict single women if they get pregnant due to new rule
(tags: babies housing safety OhForFucksSake uk )
Why mobile phones are NOT a health hazard
(tags: phones cancer radio physics )
The weapon Pope Innocent II said would change the face of modern warfare forever and then had the Second Lateran Council ban: THE CROSSBOW
(tags: weaponry history bows )
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Interesting Links for 02-07-2018

Jul. 2nd, 2018 12:00 pm
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An old Mitchell and Webb sketch is the cultural comment of our time
(tags: polit history wwii nazis viaKalimac )
Humans are _great_ at inventing reasons for why they do the things they do
(tags: humans relationships hormones )
Genetic ancestry test users 'cherry-pick' which races to identify with
(tags: race genetics )
Open relationships just as satisfying as monogamous ones (around 5% of all relationships)
(tags: relationships psychology happiness polygamy )
The Right to Kill: Should Brazil keep its Amazon tribes from taking the lives of their children?
(tags: children murder Brazil rights )
Opinion polls,and the prospects for a United Ireland
The prospect of Brexit is changing the dynamic on the ground in Northern Ireland. Whitehalls failure to come up with a way of keeping its promises on both Brexit and the Good Friday Agreement is causing huge problems for the UK in negotiations, to the extent that yet another deadline will be…
(tags: ireland NorthernIreland polls )
"The Economics of the Colonial Cringe," about The Economist magazine
(tags: writing UK usa economics society )
Cabin Pressure: The sitcom that broke records
(tags: bbc comedy radio )
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Interesting Links for 10-01-2018

Jan. 10th, 2018 12:00 pm
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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 )
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Interesting Links for 13-10-2017

Oct. 13th, 2017 12:00 pm
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EU tells Britain it will make no concessions to break 'disturbing deadlock' in Brexit negotiations
(tags: uk europe )
Predicting the next five years of Virtual Reality technology
(tags: VirtualReality Technology thefuture )
New York Is Throwing Money at Film Shoots, But Who Benefits?
(tags: movies newyork money )
Harvey Weinstein: Did everyone really know?
(tags: abuse hollywood movies media )
Horseshoe bus seats introduced to encourage passengers to talk to each other
(tags: OhForFucksSake transport social )
Every warning sign has a story.
(tags: sign )
Las Vegas Is Only the Deadliest Shooting in US History Because Black Lives Aren’t Counted
(tags: usa violence death racism )
Finally! The real explanation for why cats behave the way they do
(tags: cats funny viaJennieRigg )
Why I’m not surprised when I hear that powerful men are fucking creeps
(tags: abuse rape work )
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy to return in 2018
(tags: HHG2G radio )
Fighting racism: Teaching kids to identify individual black people can reduce racial bias
(tags: racism psychology )
TerrariaClone – An incomprehensible hellscape of spaghetti code
For the intro text, explaining how it came to be.
(tags: programming fail )
Eating magic mushrooms can treat depression
(tags: psychedelics depression psychology )
Food poverty in the UK is, frankly, disgusting
(tags: food poverty inequality uk )
DNA, tribal identity, and a new history of the old New World
(tags: usa history genetics race )
Birmingham Islamic faith school guilty of sex discrimination for segregating children
(tags: islam school discrimination gender children )
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Interesting Links for 29-05-2017

May. 29th, 2017 12:00 pm
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Lawmaker resigns after being revealed as founder of women-hating community the Red Pill
(tags: misogyny usa politics )
18 Science Facts We Didn't Know at The Start of 2017
(tags: science )
The Real Reasons for Marvel Comics’ Woes
(tags: marvel comics business fail )
A 16th-century engineer whose work almost defeated an Empire
Well, defended against it.
(tags: history engineering war )
A year of digging through code yields “smoking gun” on VW, Fiat diesel cheats
(tags: cars pollution software fraud )
The rise of the QR code in China
(tags: China technology code qr )
How rich would you need to be to have the same quality of life as a billionaire one hundred years ago?
(tags: money history )
Book Review: The Entrepreneurial State (why government funded basic research is a major driver of the economy)
(tags: research economy review )
Song calling Theresa May a ‘liar’ reaches tenth place in download charts but radio stations refuse to play it
(tags: music Conservatives lying radio uk )
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Interesting Links for 12-03-2017

Mar. 12th, 2017 12:00 pm
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SNAKISMS - when philosophy meets Snake
Nice discussion of what they mean at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13806228
(tags: philosophy games viaSwampers )
On refugees escaping the USA to Canada
(tags: canada refugee usa OhForFucksSake )
Trump supporters protest The Man In The High Castle’s anti-Nazi radio station
Philip K Dick would be proud. Or appalled. Or possibly just confused.
(tags: nazis politics radio scifi usa wtf fiction philipkdick viaJamesNicoll )
VIDEO: Germans escaping East Berlin in 80s by swimming across river towards West Berlin as patrol chases them
(tags: video history germany refugee )
In which a little girl discovers which god she's been assigned to...
(tags: religion short_story )
Leaked Treasury report warns of painful economic shock if Britain crashes out of the EU without a deal
(tags: europe uk economy )
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Interesting Links for 02-02-2017

Feb. 2nd, 2017 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 06-01-2017

Jan. 6th, 2017 12:00 pm
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Who wants a laptop with three 17" screens?
(tags: computers Technology wtf )
KLF Announce Return After 23 Year Absence
(tags: music uk viaMyBrotherHugh )
Cancer death rate has dropped 25 percent since 1991
(tags: cancer death GoodNews )
'Monster Trucks' Lost Paramount $115 Million—And The Film Isn't Even Out
(tags: movies money fail )
Unsecure routers, webcams prompt feds to sue D-Link
(tags: Technology networking law usa hacking )
Mad Feet (Mad Max/Happy Feet Mashup)
(tags: trailer funny video viaSwampers )
Norway to become first country to switch off FM radio
(tags: radio norway )
UK wind power overtakes coal for first time
Looks like we're producing slightly less overall - but most of the slack has been taken up by gas.
(tags: windpower coal renewables uk )
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Interesting Links for 31-03-2016

Mar. 31st, 2016 12:00 pm
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Schools charging parents for children to eat their own packed lunches | News
(tags: food children school OhForFucksSake money )
​Microsoft and Canonical partner to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10 | ZDNet
(tags: microsoft linux wtf )
Is the War on Drugs really a war on black America?
(tags: drugs racism society usa )
The US radio market is on the brink of collapse
(tags: radio money epicfail )
Loads of Buffy, Angel, & Spike comics (pay what you want and help charity)
(tags: buffy comics )
No, Taking A Snapchat Screenshot Will Probably Not Land You In Jail
(tags: copyright privacy law uk )
This stupid award-winning animated short with a dog in it made me cry.
(tags: animation dog disabilities )
Animal Facts You Didn’t Know
(tags: facts animals cute )
FOMO is bad for your mental health
(tags: fear life mentalhealth )
The FBI's war on math is still bullshit
(tags: usa encryption mathematics OhForFucksSake )
Psychoactive Substances Act delayed while the Home Office works out what it has banned
(tags: psychedelics law uk OhForFucksSake )
This is my Superman. Sadly, it is not Zack Snyder's Superman
(And that's twice I've cried in one evening.)
(tags: superman viaTheFerrett )
A Trafficking Survivor Shares Why She's Anti-Criminalization
(tags: abuse sexwork prostitution legalisation )
The ABC’s of D&D Monsters
(tags: dnd funny art )
Nintendo Employee 'Terminated' After Smear Campaign Over Censorship
(tags: gaming nintendo wtf )
How to send an 'E mail' - a video from 1984
(tags: email video history computers viaSwampers )
Also, this is my Batman. Who we also don't get to see in movies.
(tags: batman comics )
Alan Moore on Rorschach
(tags: alanmoore watchmen comics )
When Eisenhower tried to get rid of all of the lesbians in the military
(tags: lgbt usa military history )
Star Wars and Deadpool - two things that go so much better together
(tags: StarWars funny )
Star Trek is getting its own MAC makeup line
(tags: StarTrek makeup )
Late sleepers are tired of being discriminated against. And science has their back.
(tags: sleep )
The Strange Case of a Nazi Who Became an Israeli Hitman
(tags: israel nazis EpicWTF history )
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Interesting Links for 13-01-2016

Jan. 13th, 2016 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 20-05-2015

May. 20th, 2015 12:00 pm
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The Quiet Zone: 13,000 square miles where mobile phones are banned
(tags: space telescope radio phones quiet )
Shell Oil’s Cold Calculations for a Warming World
(tags: oil energy globalwarming thefuture )
How To Fight The Filter Bubble
(tags: opinion Twitter society )
Awe may promote altruistic behavior
(tags: altruism society psychology )
Next faces £22m bill after court finds retailer diverted cash to avoid tax
(tags: tax uk )
How to make a dragonscale dress
(tags: dragons clothing gameofthrones )
When your inflatable airbag/helmet explodes into life...
(tags: cycling technology video accident )
Why We Age
(tags: age aging evolution biology )
Simon Pegg on science fiction, commercialisation, and society.
(tags: scifi society )
A Former Informant Describes the Violent and Sartorially Complicated World of Biker Gangs
(tags: motorcycle violence gangs society )
Letter to My Hometown: Edinburgh, you classy tart
(tags: Edinburgh )
The French government has totally ruled out any EU treaty change for David Cameron
(tags: France Europe conservatives )
Beware summary statistics
(tags: statistics )
Poverty shapes how children think about themselves
(tags: poverty children psychology )
A preliminary taxonomy of the voices inside your head
(tags: psychology voice )
List of animals with fraudulent diplomas
(tags: animals academia funny )
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