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Interesting Links for 28-01-2020
Jan. 28th, 2020 12:00 pm- How Warcraft III birthed a genre, changed a franchise, and earned a Reforge-ing
- (tags:games history WarCraft )
- "Shall I compare thee to a summer's duck?" and other sayings
- (tags:language funny game )
- A brief history of early Kirk/Spock slash (and the trouble it could get you in back then)
- (tags:society StarTrek fandom lgbt gay writing slash )
- How Labour lost the Scottish working class
- (tags:Labour Scotland politics )
- 10 Videogame Characters That Are Way Better Than Humans This Valentine's Day
- (tags:relationships funny games valentines_day )
- Nuclear weapons waste storage plans aren't as safe as we thought
- (tags:environment materials nuclearweapons )
- 'I Do Not Like Working Too Hard or Too Long': A Refreshingly Honest Talk With The Witcher's Creator
- (tags:TV books interview fantasy )
Interesting Links for 26-05-2016
May. 26th, 2016 12:00 pm- Is Facebook eavesdropping on your phone conversations?
- (tags: facebook privacy advertising )
- For the first time since the 1880s, more young Americans are living with their parents than with a romantic partner.
- (tags: usa housing money inequality )
- Civilization VI hands on preview (looks very good)
- (tags: games )
- Foxconn replaces 60,000 factory workers with robots
- (tags: robots manufacturing china jobs )
- On School Rolls, Gaelic and Overcrowding in Edinburgh
- (tags: edinburgh language scotland school )
- When LinkedIn emails all of your friends to call you a white supremacist.
- (tags: nazis racism internet OhForFucksSake names viaTheWeaselKing )
- What's happening with Scotland's named person policy? And what's going to happen to it?
- (tags: scotland children snp politics )
- A Silicon Valley billionaire is reportedly funding the legal war to end Gawker
- (tags: media USA wtf )
- How to deal with token characters
- (tags: writing race gender )
- In which the BBC and Sky argue over who Captain America's boyfriend should be
- (tags: sky bbc slash relationships marvel )
- Unflattering Animal Pictures
- (tags: animals photos funny )
- Three UK announces next steps in plans to improve mobile advertising
- (tags: advertising phones )
- Most British people say they will never forgive Tony Blair
- (tags: tonyblair politics iraq war middle_east labour uk )
- Anti-cancer HPV jab piloted in gay men
- (tags: lgbt cancer vaccination )
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Interesting Links for 24-10-2015
Oct. 24th, 2015 12:00 pm- How to _really_ annoy a software developer
- XKCD on World Polio Day
- Sex differences in rhesus monkey toy preferences parallel those of children
- Why you shouldn’t believe everything you’ve read about China this week
- The Future of Dieting Is Personalized Algorithms Based On Your Gut Bacteria
- What does English Votes For English Laws actually do?
- Paint Stripper - paint + nudity + green-screen
- John Oliver discovers Daily Show slashfic
- Mom's thank-you letter to stranger who taught her daughter to skateboard goes viral
- Tolkien's annotated map of Middle-earth discovered inside copy of Lord of the Rings
- Nobody gets any work done on "Take your puppy to work" day
- Of kimono and cultural appropriation
- Medieval sexting
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- china,
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Interesting Links for 27-04-2014
Apr. 27th, 2014 12:00 pm- In which an idiot accidentally captures everything wrong with sexism and the comics industry
- The problem with using reptiles as phones
- An open letter to the head of Google from the head of Europe's largest publisher. (The issues here are vital!)
- Dothraki Or Cornish: Can You Tell The Difference (I got 10/13!)
- This Company Has A 4-Day Work Week, Pays Its Workers A Full Salary And Is Super Successful
- Pain makes women less interested in sex. Men are still eager. (In mice)
- Beware of meat falling from the sky.
- Parent calls cops on teen for giving books away at a book giveaway
- For young women in China, slash fanfiction is a dangerous hobby
Interesting Links for 19-04-2013
Apr. 19th, 2013 12:00 pm- This does a pretty good job of summing up my ideology
- Are you a woman expert? Get your name on this list, to stop journalists saying "We couldn't find a woman expert"!
- Mark Ruffalo approves of Stark/Banner fic.
- Nestlé chairman says water is not a human right
- Where are all the right-wing stand-ups?
- Light drinking is not harmful to babies (in utero, that is. No giving them beer.)
- That moment when you've spent $40,000 on learning something you could have learned for $100
- The True Cost of the Royal Family Explained
- A duckling being chased by a cat dressed as a shark riding a roomba.
- Book reviews in animated GIF form. I really liked War & Peace.
Oooh, and We Need to Talk About Kevin.
- Nine Absurd Ideas for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (That Were Actually Considered)
- DC abandons their QA column after fans actually ask questions.
- Joss Whedon Reflects On What Went Wrong With ALIEN: RESURRECTION
- Undeniable Proof That "The Walking Dead" And "Toy Story" Have The Exact Same Plot
- What different breeds of dogs look like in their first 3 weeks of life. I WANT A PUPPY.
- The Grad Student Who Shook The Global Austerity Movement
- What happened when Canada tried a citizen's income
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- zombies
Interesting Links for 12-04-2012
Apr. 12th, 2012 12:00 pm- Have 1,000 people died after being found "fit for work"?
- Healthy competition in the NHS is a sick joke
- Competition improves hospitals, report finds
- Only scientific study to show that sexual orientation can be changed has been retracted
- The Daily Mail is _really_ good at headlines
- Man Sentenced to 6 Years in Jail for Selling Fake 'Frankenstein' Posters
- Successive political parties have failed to deal with the UK's housing crisis
- Axl Rose declines Hall of Fame honour
- Sweden’s new gender neutral pronoun causes controversy.
- Possibly the least likely slashfic in the history of all slashfic. My brain, she has exploded.
- The Fate of the Republicans Who Supported Gay Marriage
- CIA's Secret Fear: High-Tech Border Checks Will Blow Spies' Cover
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- biometrics,
- cia,
- competition,
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- republicans,
- science,
- sexuality,
- slash,
- spying,
- sweden,
- technology,
- uk,
- usa,
- welfare
Interesting Links for 19-03-2012
Mar. 19th, 2012 11:00 am- Afghan women's rights are being steadily stripped away.
- How John Carter Was Doomed by Its First Trailer (and a director who was too close to the source material)
- In Sweden, cash is sliding towards oblivion
- In Protest, Democrats Zero In On Men's Reproductive Health
- Best Part Of Gay 12-Year-Old’s Day Half Hour Spent Eating Lunch Alone On Staircase
- Fan Fiction Friday: Thomas the Tank Engine in "Tension Relief". AAAAAARGH. MY BRAIN.
- How one man escaped from a North Korean prison camp. (Harrowing, appalling and compelling)
- A very funny picture which contains spoilers for the end of season 1 of GameOfThrones
- Travel Posters for Lazy People.
- Mozilla is going to support h264 video if the OS provides a decoder
- Government pushing to privatise the roads. I really cannot see how this would be more efficient in the long run.
- Demand feeding better for children, scheduled feeding better for mothers
- The bottom half of this article puts forward a much better proposal for funding roads, IMHO
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