Interesting Links for 01-02-2025
Feb. 1st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Mainstream media paved the way for Trump's anti-trans policies
- (tags:LGBT bigotry journalism )
- 2. When will Edinburgh have a South Suburban line?
- (tags:transport edinburgh rail trams )
- 3. Neil Gaiman's The Sandman Canceled at Netflix After Season 2
- (tags:neilgaiman sandman tv )
- 4. Chunks of Labour are moving in a socially conservative direction
- (tags:Labour politics OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Norway's wealth fund reports record profits. It's now worth $319,900 per citizen.
- (tags:Norway money )
Interesting Links for 04-09-2024
Sep. 4th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Is My Blue Your Blue? (Hue 177 for me, bluer than 76% of the population)
- (tags:colour perception names )
- 2. Kids who use ChatGPT as a study assistant for maths problem do worse on tests
- (tags:maths ai teaching )
- 3. Rail nationalisation takes a step closer under Starmer's first major public reform
- (tags:rail uk labour )
- 4. Labour won't ban dynamic pricing despite Oasis tickets anger, but will make it more transparent
- (tags:labour economics music )
- 5. New coastal neighbourhood masterplan unveiled for Seafield in Edinburgh
- (tags:edinburgh housing sea viaDanielDWilliam )
- 6. What British women really fantasise about
- (tags:fantasy sex uk )
- 7. I'd love to see some science-based discussion on this piece about whether Covid is something worth stressing about.
- (tags:pandemic )
- 8. Grenfell disaster - key points
- (tags:UK fire fraud death OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 30-08-2024
Aug. 30th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Suspects in foiled plot to attack Taylor Swift shows aimed to kill 'tens of thousands'
- (tags:terrorism music Austria )
- 2. UK rail minister got engineer sacked for raising safety concerns
- (tags:safety rail UK Labour OhForFucksSake )
- 3. The UK's problem isn't inequality it's lack of growth
- (tags:inequality growth economics UK )
- 4. IRS reports collecting $1 billion from rich households' back taxes
- (tags:tax USA GoodNews )
- 5. 'The Neverending Story' Getting New Film Series Adaptation (I hope they do a more faithful adaptation this time. I think it would actually work best as a TV series)
- (tags:movies )
- 6. The secret inside One Million Checkboxes
- (tags:internet communication art )
Interesting Links for 09-10-2021
Oct. 9th, 2021 12:00 pm- Lateral flow tests: Health chiefs probe 'high number' of positive rapid Covid tests followed by negative PCRs
- (tags:pandemic weird )
- Edinburgh's former Royal High school: Lease granted for music school trust
- (tags:edinburgh school history architecture )
- How the worst civilian rail disaster in UK history helped create the paramedic
- (tags:healthcare disaster history rail UK )
Interesting Links for 21-05-2021
May. 21st, 2021 12:00 pm- UK failed to secure the Brexit deal it wanted for Northern Ireland, David Frost admits
- (tags:uk NorthernIreland europe trade doom )
- How will the huge rail shake-up affect Scotland?
- (tags:scotland uk rail )
- Underbelly are seeking planning permission to fence off part of The Meadows temporarily
- (tags:Edinburgh planning viaDanielDWilliam )
Interesting Links for 20-05-2021
May. 20th, 2021 12:00 pm- UK Launches World's First Vaccine Booster Jab Trial
- (tags:UK vaccines research )
- Pregnancy MRI scans are amazing and terrifying
- (tags:pregnancy babies mri terrifying )
- Boris Johnson's £840-a-roll gold wallpaper keeps falling down as decorators called back in
- (tags:UK politics WTF metaphor )
- Parents' evenings to stay online after pandemic'
- (tags:schools parents internet )
- Rail services to come under unified state control
- (tags:rail trains UK government )
Interesting Links for 11-07-2017
Jul. 11th, 2017 12:00 pm- Facebook’s and eBay’s monopolies are very different from, and scarier than, Google’s. But what about Amazon?
- (tags: monopoly business Amazon Google Facebook eBay )
- What happened when Walmart left
- As much a symptom as a cause. Population in the county dropped by 90%, and loads of businesses shut.
(tags: ) - How to make a friend fast - the scientific method
- (tags: relationships friendship psychology )
- EU Prepares "Right to Repair" Legislation to Fight Short Product Lifespans
- (tags: hardware Technology europe )
- Major rail disruption looms in August as stations are closed
- (tags: trains transport rail uk )
- Running a hospital at full capacity costs lives and money
- (tags: efficiency hospital healthcare )
- New way to predict when electric cars and home batteries become cost effective
- Interesting conclusion about nuclear
(tags: nuclearpower electricity thefuture ) - 15 Years Later, Here's Why A Gamer Was Duct-Taped To A Ceiling
- (tags: gaming funny history meme viaSwampers )
- Sex Ed for Pirates
- (tags: piracy sex Education funny comic )
- Every total solar eclipse happening in your lifetime
- (tags: sun thefuture )
- Gangnam Style is no longer the most-played video on YouTube
- I've not seen the most-played. Or, in fact, seven of the top ten. I may have to rectify some of that.
(tags: music video youtube ) - Taylor Review: UK should end cash-in-hand economy
- (tags: jobs money uk )
Interesting Links for 23-06-2017
Jun. 23rd, 2017 12:00 pm- That Dire Helium Shortage? Vastly Inflated
- (tags: chemistry materials )
- Trial! By! Cake!
- (tags: history cake funny viaSwampers )
- The Pinkest Pink Versus the Blackest Black
- (tags: colour art Technology )
- Scotland may close its first train station for 31 years
- (tags: rail scotland transport )
- Workplace gender quotas weed out incompetent men and make businesses more efficient
- (tags: gender equality business politics )
- Scots ban on puppy tail docking relaxed after Holyrood vote
- (tags: dogs scotland )
- Helpful criticism from a true fan...
- (tags: fandom funny true comic )
- Where do you fit in? (Enter your income, discover how many people earn less than you)
- (tags: income )
- Gender Variance Around the World Over Time
- (tags: lgbt history )
- House cat challenges a lion
- (tags: lions cats video )
- Virtual reality controllers take another step forward
- (tags: VirtualReality ux )
- Brexit: Leave voter realises his fruit farms could collapse without EU migrant workers
- (tags: europe UK jobs farming OhForFucksSake )
- Ron Howard taking over as director of Star Wars Han Solo film
- (tags: StarWars movies )
- System detects, translates sarcasm on social media
- I bet it works *fantastically*
(tags: meaning language ) - If you build it, they will ride: pop-up bike lanes show that demand exists
- Oh to have a bike lane to work
(tags: bicycles transport ) - Finnish citizens given universal basic income report lower stress levels and greater incentive to work
- (tags: GuaranteedIncome finland GoodNews )
- Teenage boys wear skirts to school to protest against 'no shorts' policy
- (tags: clothing heat gender )
- New Hampshire Accidentally Approved A Bill Allowing Pregnant Women To Commit Murder
- (tags: law women pregnancy usa murder )
- Taylor Swift makes $200,000 per week since returning to Spotify
- (tags: money spotify streaming music )
- UN vote backing Chagos Islands a blow for UK
- (tags: uk law unitednations )
Interesting Links for 19-05-2017
May. 19th, 2017 12:00 pm- 'American Gods' showrunners on $2 million Crocodile Bar mistake
- (tags: neilgaiman tv money )
- FactCheck Q&A: Should we nationalise the railways?
- (tags: transport rail trains uk )
- Yorkshire Party manifesto launch wants county parliament
- (tags: uk politics )
- Daryl Bem Proved ESP Is Real. Which Means Science Is Broken
- (tags: research science fail psychology statistics )
- North Sea Wind Power Hub: A giant wind farm to power all of north Europe
- (tags: windpower ocean europe )
- Who takes their dad to court for not handing over their lottery winnings?
- (tags: money family wtf )
- Tory manifesto: Thousands of foreign spouses to be barred entry to UK as income limit increased
- (tags: immigration Conservatives uk money OhForFucksSake )
- This is pretty much exactly how programming works.
- (tags: programming comic funny )
- Female 'Overwatch' player was harassed for 16 minutes — so she uploaded it to YouTube
- (tags: abuse gaming misogyny OhForFucksSake )
- Omar, perhaps world's longest cat, finds internet fame
- (tags: cats )
- Estate of Edward Albee Yanks Rights to Production Over Casting of Black Actor
- (tags: race theatre )
- 21 Things You Find Out When You Become A Stripper
- (tags: sexwork )
- Wonder Woman first reactions are very positive
- (tags: comics movies )
- What questions does a 4-year-old ask Google?
- (tags: children google )
Interesting Links for 11-04-2017
Apr. 11th, 2017 12:00 pm- First UK rail freight service to China to depart
- (tags: uk china rail transport trade )
- Russian arrested in Spain over US election hacking
- (tags: russia spain hacking usa elections )
- How to force manufacturers to take IoT security seriously?
- (tags: Technology security )
- British Religion in Numbers
- (tags: religion demographics uk )
- Are the voters on Twitter typical of the rest of us?
- (tags: twitter voting polls )
- NHS Scotland to fund 'game-changer' Prep HIV drug
- (tags: hiv drugs scotland healthcare )
- Three Ways to Grade a Test
- (tags: Education )
- Chechnya has opened concentration camps for gay men
- (tags: lgbt fascism russia )
- Scots to bask in 3 months of hot weather
- (tags: Scotland weather )
- Using Facebook more leads to less happiness
- (tags: facebook happiness psychology )
- Why an X-Men comic has ignited political debate in Indonesia
- (tags: xmen islam politics )
- The Great Impostor
- See also http://www.xkcdb.com/?10480 for a more informal discussion.
He makes Frank Abagnale look like an underachiever.
(tags: viaSwampers ) - The Ableist, Racist, Classist Underpinnings Of ‘Laziness’
- (tags: work class race )
Interesting Links for 10-04-2017
Apr. 10th, 2017 12:00 pm- Flat-Earthers Have a Wild New Theory About Forests
- (tags: forests conspiracy wtf )
- People prefer fairness over equality
- (tags: inequality psychology society )
- 15 honest British seaside postcards (Some of you will particularly appreciate Whitby)
- (tags: UK funny holidays goth )
- When having separate bank accounts is the opposite of independence
- (tags: relationships money )
- Ikea's smart-lighting system is not a terrible apocalypse of security failure!
- (tags: ikea security )
- LJ to Dreamwidth in a Hurry
- (tags: livejournal dreamwidth )
- Want to find an old LJ friend? Linking DW and LJ identities
- (tags: livejournal dreamwidth )
- On the Women’s Petition Against Coffee of 1674
- (tags: coffee history )
- What is this colored fiber in my chicken?
- (tags: chicken food wtf )
- The connection between short and long-term memory is not what we thought
- (tags: memory brain mice )
- I took a feminism test. I'm not sure how I feel about the results
- (tags: feminism )
- Borders Railway extension prospects studied
- (tags: rail scotland )
- Third of cohabitants believed they had same rights as married couples (or did not know). 75% think those rights should exist.
- Scotland is, as usual, ahead of the curve: http://www.familylawweek.co.uk/site.aspx?i=ed2365
(tags: uk scotland law relationships )
Interesting Links for 10-07-2016
Jul. 10th, 2016 12:00 pm- The real reason people read books
- (tags: books funny comic )
- Do not believe websites that tell you you have a virus
- Really, they have no way of telling
(tags: virus fraud web ) - The Economist asks why millenials aren't buying diamonds. The internet responds
- (tags: diamonds funny economics twitter viaSkreidle )
- 25 GIFs that explain how things work
- (tags: animated_gif viaSkreidle )
- Do you like hilarious reviews of terrible romance novels? Then you need to read "The Playboy Sheikh’s Virgin Stable Girl"
- (tags: funny review romance )
- Amazon's review system is broken
- (tags: amazon reviews )
- When a road closed, a Scottish amateur railway kept people moving.
- (tags: rail scotland transport )
- Babies: Cuter in theory than in practice
- (tags: babies cute funny )
Interesting Links for 20-04-2016
Apr. 20th, 2016 12:00 pm- Our Augmented Reality future looks, frankly, amazing
- (tags: augmentedreality VirtualReality Technology computers thefuture )
- Cognitive function declines slightly at 25-hours per week, more at 35 hours, and signicantly at 40 hours
- Cognitive functioning improves up to the point at which workers work 25 hours a week and declines thereafter...at first the decline is very marginal, and there is not much of an effect as working hours rise to 35 hours per week. Beyond 40 hours per week, the decline is much more rapid.
(tags: work time ) - Sony's strategy with the PS4.5 is rather novel. I wonder if it will work.
- (tags: games consoles sony playstation computers )
- Ascension Island has a fascinating history
- (tags: environment history UK ocean )
- Anyone amused by legal shennanigans will enjoy this
- (tags: rail business law funny viaJennieRigg )
- Keeping it reel: the dying art of the film projectionist – in pictures
- I remember my surprise, a couple of years ago, at discovering that the local Vue no longer had any projectionists, and everything was run directly from head office.
(tags: film Technology history movies ) - The alt-right is more than warmed-over white supremacy. It’s that, but way way weirder.
- (tags: politics history racism usa republicans )
Interesting Links for 26-01-2015
Jan. 26th, 2015 11:00 am- Saudi Arabia has been holding reformist daughters of the late king under guard for over a decade
- Landlines: The tech that just won't die
- The Story Behind The Xmas Kings Cross Problems (Fascinating story of project-planning gone wrong)
- Knitting - with PVC pipes
- The Secret Douglas Adams RPG That People Have Been Playing for 15 Years
- My wife seems to think this isn't a puppy. I don't really understand why...
- Given the same science-related CV with different genders on it, universities will offer $4000 more to the men.
- This is pretty-much why I'm not interested in things like Torture Garden
- Germans have a right to pee while standing up
- Is Scotland actually getting "Home Rule"?
- Clifford D Simak: The anti-Lovecraft
I love Way Station. Lovely novel, in a style I don't really see any more.
- It was not illegal for women to act in Shakespeare’s time
- How Google's upcoming paid streaming service is going to work
- American Sniper is doing a great job as propaganda. I wonder if the creators know.
- How to grow a beard
- Scientists Figure Out How To Unboil Eggs
- The five tribes of UKIP
- Lifespan depends on month of birth
- Syriza and Independent Greeks agree anti-austerity coalition
Interesting Links for 22-10-2014
Oct. 22nd, 2014 12:00 pm- Poor kids who do everything right don’t do much better than rich kids who do everything wrong
- The Internet: A Glossary
- A journalist investigates Gamergate to find the true basis for it. Can you guess what they find?
- Mexican drug cartels are worse than ISIL
There is, of course, a really simple answer.
- Gritty vs Dark vs Grimdark
- Why America Should Adopt High Speed Rail
Obviously, only works in areas of reasonably concentrated cities. But even the USA has some of those.
- The Onion's Tips For Not Accidentally Murdering Your Girlfriend
- When did women stop coding, and why?
- Brain scans show cause of seasonal affective disorder
- 'Walking Dead' Actress Goes Undercover And Saves 55 Sex Slaves In Real Life
- Evil TV/Movie characters - in vinyl!
- If WoW selfies aren't a thing, they really should be
- Converting a path tracer from C++ to Rust
- How Facebook is wrecking political news
Interesting Links for 21-07-2014
Jul. 21st, 2014 12:00 pm- When Rhode Island accidentally legalized prostitution, rape (and STDs) decreased sharply
- How effective was the Paris ban on pro-Palestine demonstrations?
- Single mothers do just as good a job as couples (once you take poverty into account)
- A nice rant on edge cases and the fallibility of medicine
To be taken with a pinch of salt, a lot of carefulness, and a bunch of research
- Ever wondered how games work out the path your minions should take? This is how
- Game of Thrones theme song played by the Queen's guards
- Labour rules out immediate public spending increase
- Indie titles without DRM sell twice as many copies each, on average, as those with DRM.
- Labour has formally pledged to include further devolved powers for the Scottish Parliament in its manifesto
- The Japanese diplomat who saved 6,000 Jews from genocide during WWII
- How has technology changed since the Moon Landings? And why?
- Concept of cuteness is hardwired from age of three
- Why the modern bathroom is a wasteful, unhealthy design
- It's time for Western psychology to recognise that many individuals, and even entire cultures, fear happiness
- The science, and art, of turbulence
- The Cornish beaches where Lego keeps washing up
- ‘Innovation and standardisation’ keep China’s high-speed rail costs low
Interesting Links for 21-05-2014
May. 21st, 2014 12:00 pm- Why Do People Persist in Believing Things That Just Aren't True?
- Possibly the angriest music review of all time
- Psychologists finally notice that favouritism is actually more damaging than negative discrimination
- What would a UKIP of the left actually look like?
- How Much Does It Cost to Book Your Favorite Band?
- CIA ends use of vaccine programmes (but not before causing death of 60 health workers, and 66 kids getting polio...)
- Possibly the finest idea for a movie ever
- Reports of the death of phone numbers have been greatly exaggerated.
- FBI Grappling With Hiring Policy Concerning Marijuana
- What causes people to commit mass murder?
- Remember that app that could translate street signs? Google bought it, and it's free to download! (for now)
- New plastic surgery installs 'internal bra' under the skin (nsfw)
- E-cigarettes help smokers quit
- Facebook now allows you to obnoxiously pester your friends to fill in their profiles.
- Paedophiles' brains are tuned to children's faces
- Major U.K. Real-Time Train Database Opens Up To More Developers
- Synchronized oscillators may allow for computing that works like the brain
Interesting Links for 30-10-2013
Oct. 30th, 2013 11:00 am- HS2 will be worth 2.3x what it costs. Unless rail demand keeps rising, in which case 4.5x
- Scroll Down to Riker
- Nice map of mortality rates in the US, broken down by type and state.
- Digital radio is a failure. Anyone tell me why?
- The Status of Moore's Law: It's Complicated
- 9/11 Suspects Can’t Mention being Tortured during Trial Testimony because Their Torture is Classified
- Eye tracking technology shows people check out women at first glance
- I am not even slightly convinced that sending people with dementia to a prison does any good.
- This is pretty much how I feel about faith
- ISPs told to block 21 pirate sites
- Blockbuster calls in administrators for second time in year
- The problem with having God on your side. (warning, rest of site is NSFW)
- The Real Link Between Creativity and Mental Illness
- This flame is made of pure water
- Press regulation: The 10 major questions
Interesting Links for 09-10-2012
Oct. 9th, 2012 12:00 pm- Microsoft claims ownership of the number 45 (or, at least, their copright infringement detection bot has gone horribly wrong)
- New Conservative justice minister in favour of rehabilitiation, against capital punishment.
- Topology unveils some interesting facets of the quantum world - may hold the key to understanding states of matter.
- Jimmy Savile and workplace culture today
- Why Time Travel Stories Should Be Messy
- Last year, spending by Apple and Google on patents exceeded spending on research and development
- Nuclear fusion research takes some positive steps forward
- Gay Marriage Could Turn Britain Into Nazi Germany. According to bigots.
- How much do cats actually kill?
- Prenatal mercury exposure may be linked to risk of ADHD-related behaviors; Fish consumption may be linked to lower risk
- Why all the West Coast bids were wrong
- Epic Frequency Turns Audio Files Into Wall Art