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Interesting Links for 13-02-2026
Feb. 13th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. The Agile Manifesto is 25 years old!
- (tags:software development history )
- 2. Trump failed to indict six members of Congress. This is why it matters (and why juries are important)
- (tags:usa law )
- 3. Putin's megaphone: Orbán's far-right push into UK universities is fuelled by Russian oil
- (tags:Hungary Russia bigotry uk )
- 4. Scottish government bans wet wipes containing plastic
- (tags:scotland plastic pollution babies )
Interesting Links for 19-02-2025
Feb. 19th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The people who can't develop Alzheimer's - but could be key to a cure
- (tags:alzheimers )
- 2. What's the state of public service reform in Scotland?
- (tags:scotland organisation government nhs )
- 3. Why estimating how long a task will take is hard
- (tags:time software estimating )
- 4. Cynthia Erivo To Play Jesus In 'Jesus Christ Superstar' At Hollywood Bowl
- (tags:religion theatre USA race gender )
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- estimating,
- gender,
- government,
- links,
- nhs,
- organisation,
- race,
- religion,
- scotland,
- software,
- theatre,
- time,
- usa
Interesting Links for 04-08-2024
Aug. 4th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Butterflies accumulate enough static electricity to attract pollen
- (tags:electricity butterflies )
- 2. Why are British place names so hard to pronounce?
- (tags:UK history names location video )
- 3. Neil Gaiman Sexual Assault Link Round Up and Timeline
- (tags:neilgaiman assault )
- 4. A bit more context on the Olympic shooting competition.
- (tags:olympics guns )
- 5. The massive transphobic fuss over Imane Khelif seems to lead back to...Russian corruption.
- (tags:russia corruption bigotry lgbt transgender OhForFucksSake sports olympics )
- 6. "We ran out of columns" - The best, worst codebase
- (tags:software development )
- 7. What happened to the swans in St Margaret's Loch (in Holyrood Park)
- (tags:swans disease Edinburgh Scotland death )
- 8. How to visualise (and display) incredibly long periods of time. The vast sparseness of the visualisation is overwhelming.
- (tags:time visualisation )
- 9. Olympic women's boxing eligibility controversy is a reminder of the harm in trusting bad faith actors
- (tags:Olympics bigotry Russia )
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- assault,
- bigotry,
- butterflies,
- corruption,
- death,
- development,
- disease,
- edinburgh,
- electricity,
- guns,
- history,
- lgbt,
- links,
- location,
- names,
- neilgaiman,
- ohforfuckssake,
- olympics,
- russia,
- scotland,
- software,
- sports,
- swans,
- time,
- transgender,
- uk,
- video,
- visualisation
Interesting Links for 24-05-2024
May. 24th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. New pylons to be installed across the UK in National Grid's £30bn green upgrade
- (tags:uk electricity infrastructure )
- 2. For whom Good Omens is being written
- (tags:neilgaiman terrypratchett alzheimers TV writing )
- 3. Football Association resists government pressure to change its transgender inclusion policy
- (tags:football UK transgender LGBT GoodNews sports )
- 4. The next food marketing blitz is aimed at people on new weight-loss drugs
- (tags:food weight drugs )
- 5. Daily cannabis use overtakes drinking for first time in US
- (tags:marijuana alcohol usa )
- 6. The Suit Died, but for Good Reasons
- (tags:history clothing UK monarchy class USA )
- 7. Managers - what are they good for?
- (tags:management engineering software )
- 8. Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue
- (tags:Reddit Google ai OhForFucksSake safety advice headline epicfail )
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- advice,
- ai,
- alcohol,
- alzheimers,
- class,
- clothing,
- drugs,
- electricity,
- engineering,
- epicfail,
- food,
- football,
- goodnews,
- google,
- headline,
- history,
- infrastructure,
- lgbt,
- links,
- management,
- marijuana,
- monarchy,
- neilgaiman,
- ohforfuckssake,
- reddit,
- safety,
- software,
- sports,
- terrypratchett,
- transgender,
- tv,
- uk,
- usa,
- weight,
- writing
Interesting Links for 06-03-2024
Mar. 6th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. French decision to protect right to abortion shows 'real fear far-right populists could gain power'
- (tags:abortion rights France )
- 2. How much effort it takes to clean a professional kitchen (and how much the cook will hate you if you walk in 10 minutes before closing)
- (tags:restaurant cleaning )
- 3. More than one-quarter of scholarly articles are not being properly archived and preserved
- (tags:research academia fail viaPatrickHadfield )
- 4. Why Edinburgh's potholes are winning
- (tags:edinburgh roads weight )
- 5. How Hugo ballots used to be counted
- (tags:software hugo awards )
- 6. Sugary drinks increase your risk of a heart condition by 10%. Drinks with sweeteners raise it by 20%
- (tags:sugar drink heart doom )
- 7. The man who spends £8,500 a year to live on a train
- (tags:trains germany viaDanielDWilliam )
- 8. This is The Longest Train Route in the World (as of 2024)
- (tags:trains china Russia Spain Portugal )
- 9. What is your objective?
- (tags:advice life )
- 10. European Court of Human Rights Confirms: Weakening Encryption Violates Fundamental Rights
- (tags:encryption privacy Europe rights )
- 11. Racism is embedded in LLMs (in this case, based on dialect)
- (tags:racism ai )
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Interesting Links for 17-01-2024
Jan. 17th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. All the Types of Science Fiction
- (tags:scifi funny genre tropes )
- 2. Data collected just before the war in Gaza shows that millions of Palestinians were already unable to afford food and shelter
- (tags:palestine israel doom )
- 3. Abortion clinic protest laws to be watered down by James Cleverly
- (tags:abortion uk OhForFucksSake protest )
- 4. Fujitsu knew from 'very early stage' about flaws in Horizon system
- (tags:postoffices software OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Drinking 100% fruit juice may be linked to weight gain in children
- (tags:fruit sugar weight children )
Interesting Links for 03-10-2023
Oct. 3rd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. How to Compete with Patreon
- (tags:business internet )
- 2. International School Signs (what do your local ones show?)
- (tags:school sign )
- 3. Dreamwidth's war against spam intensifies
- (tags:dreamwidth spam OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Scientists discover world's oldest human-built structure, built by an extinct species
- (tags:humans prehistory )
- 5. Does working from home damage productivity? Just look at the data.
- (tags:work homes productivity )
- 6. New Jersey police bought software to predict crimes. It was wrong 99% of the time.
- (tags:epicfail predictions crime police software )
- 7. How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet
- (tags:google search fraud advertising )
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- advertising,
- business,
- crime,
- dreamwidth,
- epicfail,
- fraud,
- google,
- homes,
- humans,
- internet,
- links,
- ohforfuckssake,
- police,
- predictions,
- prehistory,
- productivity,
- school,
- search,
- sign,
- software,
- spam,
- work
Interesting Links for 15-09-2023
Sep. 15th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. What Mitt Romney Saw in the Senate (And how he saw his party dragged into horror by Trump)
- (tags:politics usa republicans )
- 2. Clearly the easiest way to get yourself clean and ready to face the day.
- (tags:funny video cleanliness )
- 3. Do *you* miss the Flash games of your youth?
- (tags:games Flash history archive technology )
- 4. An update on the SAG/WGA strikes
- (tags:unions actors writers USA strike )
- 5. What's going on with the changes in the Unity game engine's pricing
- (tags:games business software )
Interesting Links for 16-08-2023
Aug. 16th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. The 16 brutal restrictions imposed on women in Afghanistan during two years of the Taliban
- (tags:taliban afghanistan women rights )
- 2. 'We want a second baby, but can't afford one': The rise of Britain's one-child families
- (tags:children money uk )
- 3. Edinburgh is new Covid hotspot as active cases double during Festival Fringe
- (tags:pandemic edinburgh festival fringe )
- 4. Positive Association between Altitude and Suicide across the USA
- (tags:usa suicide oxygen )
- 5. Council Tax Reform is Necessary — and so is Understanding
- (tags:Scotland politics tax )
- 6. Brains of teenage smokers may be different than non-smokers
- (tags:cigarettes neuroscience brain teenagers )
- 7. Google DeepMind's game-playing AI just found another way to make code faster
- (tags:ai coding software )
Interesting Links for 19-05-2023
May. 19th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. A history of LGBT communities and how (some) radical feminists attacked them
- (tags:history LGBT OhForFucksSake )
- 2. 94% of people don't want to be tracked online - why are sites still asking for consent to do so?
- (tags:cookies surveillance web )
- 3. Post-Brexit India deal could cut thousands of jobs in Leave-voting areas, and hike food prices
- (tags:uk europe india trade rice )
- 4. Edinburgh's Water of Leith nature project sees floating habitats placed to support wildlife
- (tags:edinburgh rivers nature )
- 5. The EU's new Cyber Resilience Act is about to tell us how to code
- (tags:europe security software )
- 6. Ikea Tarot Deck
- (tags:tarot ikea awesome )
- 7. The best Covid tracker website is finally shutting down. I am so grateful for the work they put in over the last few years
- (tags:Pandemic visualisation )
- 8. Why is Africa the way it is? - part 2
- (tags:Africa viaDanielDWilliam )
- 9. Why is Africa the way it is? - part 1
- (tags:Africa )
Interesting Links for 18-05-2023
May. 18th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Why did the Southern States secede?
- (tags:USA history civilwar slavery )
- 2. When a Far Right Shitposter Runs a Social Media Platform
- (tags:USA politics fraud disinformation socialmedia ElonMusk Twitter )
- 3. The Dangers of Google’s .zip TLD. Can you quickly tell which of the URLs is fraudulent?
- (tags:hacking security web )
- 4. Alastair Campbell seems to have come around on fixing the voting system
- (tags:politics voting reform labour )
- 5. Titanic: First ever full-sized scans reveal wreck as never seen before
- (tags:titanic 3d scanning )
- 6. Why did the UK do so badly at Eurovision?
- (tags:eurovision music UK )
- 7. Meet the people who carry out virtual relationships for money - two minutes at a time
- (tags:relationships fraud business )
- 8. 94% of people don't want to be tracked online - why are sites still asking for consent to do so?
- (tags:cookies surveillance web )
- 9. Post-Brexit India deal could cut thousands of jobs in Leave-voting areas, and hike food prices
- (tags:uk europe india trade rice )
- 10. Edinburgh's Water of Leith nature project sees floating habitats placed to support wildlife
- (tags:edinburgh rivers nature )
- 11. The EU's new Cyber Resilience Act is about to tell us how to code
- (tags:europe security software )
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- business,
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- cookies,
- disinformation,
- edinburgh,
- elonmusk,
- europe,
- eurovision,
- fraud,
- hacking,
- history,
- india,
- labour,
- links,
- music,
- nature,
- politics,
- reform,
- relationships,
- rice,
- rivers,
- scanning,
- security,
- slavery,
- socialmedia,
- software,
- surveillance,
- titanic,
- trade,
- twitter,
- uk,
- usa,
- voting,
- web
Interesting Links for 12-04-2023
Apr. 12th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. How Nicola Sturgeon's departure has helped to open the floodgates for anti-trans policy in UK politics
- (tags:politics uk transgender lgbt OhForFucksSake bigotry )
- 2. 'Alien Calculus' Could Save Particle Physics From Infinities
- (tags:quantum mathematics )
- 3. Russia's civilian economy is down around 50% as the country shifts to a war economy
- (tags:russia war economics )
- 4. Voters want more compassionate politicians, survey suggests amid Labour ad row
- (tags:politics uk OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Wind turbine blades recycling breakthrough
- (tags:windpower recycling GoodNews )
- 6. No, current AI is not the solution to healthcare
- (tags:healthcare ai )
- 7. Europe and Ukraine have repulsed Russia's attempts to weaponize energy - so far.
- (tags:energy russia europe ukraine war )
- 8. UK economy to shrink by 0.3% this year, the worst performance in the G7
- (tags:uk economy doom )
- 9. Nearly three quarters of Conservative voters want the UK to build more social housing
- (tags:UK housing conservatives polls )
- 10. Truck carrying 40,000 pounds of toxic soil from East Palestine train derailment site crashes on highway (if you made this up then nobody would believe you)
- (tags:environment usa incompetence WTF pollution )
- 11. Why does Outlook map Ctrl+F to Forward instead of Find, like all right-thinking programs?
- (tags:software ux )
- 12. Traffic police roll out new way to catch reckless motorists - drones
- (tags:drone traffic driving safety police UK )
- 13. EVE Online player uses obscure rule to pull off the biggest heist in the game's history (by buying shares and voting themselves into management)
- (tags:games crime mmorpg EveOnline )
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- ai,
- bigotry,
- conservatives,
- crime,
- doom,
- driving,
- drone,
- economics,
- economy,
- energy,
- environment,
- europe,
- eveonline,
- games,
- goodnews,
- healthcare,
- housing,
- incompetence,
- lgbt,
- links,
- mathematics,
- mmorpg,
- ohforfuckssake,
- police,
- politics,
- polls,
- pollution,
- quantum,
- recycling,
- russia,
- safety,
- software,
- traffic,
- transgender,
- uk,
- ukraine,
- usa,
- ux,
- war,
- windpower,
- wtf
Interesting Links for 02-01-2023
Jan. 2nd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. After nearly 30 years, there's finally a new issue of Miracleman by Neil Gaiman
- (tags:comics Miracleman history )
- 2. I've found my New Year's Resolution!
- (tags:resolutions grammar funny )
- 3. Terraria's Steam success is the fruit of unmatched long-term support
- (tags:games )
- 4. Maintenance of FORM, the 1980s software that's used for the particle physics' hardest calculations, rests almost entirely with one septuagenarian physicist.
- (tags:physics software Doom )
- 5. Yesterday was the 40th birthday of the internet!
- (tags:internet history )
- 6. Andrew Tate fuelling misogyny in UK schools, teachers warn
- (tags:misogyny homophobia LGBT bigotry OhForFucksSake school children )
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- bigotry,
- children,
- comics,
- doom,
- funny,
- games,
- grammar,
- history,
- homophobia,
- internet,
- lgbt,
- links,
- miracleman,
- misogyny,
- ohforfuckssake,
- physics,
- resolutions,
- school,
- software
Interesting Links for 05-12-2022
Dec. 5th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. How do workers feel about unions? How about voters in general?
- (tags:unions polls )
- 2. Before clicking this link, guess how movies there now are in the Bring It On franchise. For extra points guess how many are horror movies
- (tags:movies viaNeilRodger )
- 3. Software horror show: SAP Concur
- (tags:software ux epicfail )
- 4. How buying cryptocurrency ought to work
- (tags:investment stupidity EpicStupidity funny )
- 5. Keir Starmer's new plan for a Labour Britain, explained (it's baby steps in the right direction)
- (tags:labour politics uk )
- 6. "As a parent of a trans child, all I want is for the NHS to properly support and care for them"
- (tags:transgender UK NHS LGBT healthcare parenting )
- 7. If you unscrew your belly button, your bottom will fall off (lessons learned from a dad)
- (tags:parenting )
Tags:
- epicfail,
- epicstupidity,
- funny,
- healthcare,
- investment,
- labour,
- lgbt,
- links,
- movies,
- nhs,
- parenting,
- politics,
- polls,
- software,
- stupidity,
- transgender,
- uk,
- unions,
- ux,
- vianeilrodger
Interesting Links for 28-09-2022
Sep. 28th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Most Republicans Support Declaring the United States a Christian Nation
- (tags:republicans politics christianity usa )
- 2. *You* might say that Russia just sabotaged its own gas pipeline to Europe, but I couldn't possibly comment.
- (tags:russia germany gas doom )
- 3. Tory donor makes huge profits from falling pound
- (tags:Conservatives economics doom )
- 4. Did several billion people watch the Queen's funeral?
- (tags:queen funeral tv FactCheck )
- 5. There is no "software supply chain"
- (tags:software quality security )
- 6. Subsistence farms are soul-killing misery machines
- (tags:farming history )
- 7. Edinburgh Ocean Terminal to be partially demolished and turned into homes (I wonder if they'll regret that once the tram goes there)
- (tags:edinburgh shopping )
Interesting Links for 18-09-2022
Sep. 18th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Probably the best customer service email in the history of mankind
- (tags:bakery food customerservice funny )
- 2. Research into who is in The Queue
- (tags:Queen death polls )
- 3. If we don't get rid of the monarchy then can we at least get rid of its privileges?
- (tags:monarchy law UK )
- 4. Labour MP Clive Lewis breaks ranks to criticise monarchist lies
- (tags:monarchy politics uk )
- 5. Women's software contributions are accepted more often. Unless people can tell that they're from women
- (tags:gender bias software )
- 6. American Dark Money, the Mercers and the Conservative Party: A Network of Influence
- (tags:money conservatives )
- 7. Border conflict between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. I wonder about general destabilisation in the region
- (tags:viaDanielDWilliam )
- 8. 18 incredible Edinburgh buildings we can't believe were demolished
- (tags:Edinburgh history architecture viaDanielDWilliam )
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Interesting Links for 15-09-2022
Sep. 15th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. The Queue is the greatest piece of British performance art of all time
- (tags:UK funny Queen death London )
- 2. Ah, that classic comedy sketch, "getting balloons into the back of your car on a windy day"
- (tags:funny video balloon wind viaPatrickHadfield )
- 3. Ethereum has moved to Proof of Stake, reducing the world's electricity bill by 0.5%
- (tags:electricty blockchain )
- 4. Here's Russia recruiting soldiers from prison with a promise of amnesty from all crimes
- (tags:russia prison war military )
- 5. Five years of data show that SSDs are more reliable than HDDs over the long haul
- (tags:ssd harddrive storage )
- 6. The Queue will clearly be the smash romantic comedy of 2024
- (tags:movies UK Queen death funny )
- 7. Quality Is Systemic
- (tags:software systems organisation quality )
Interesting Links for 06-07-2022
Jul. 6th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Wind And Solar Provided A Record 10% Of The World's Power Generation In 2021
- (tags:viaDanielDWilliam solarpower windpower GoodNews renewables electricity )
- 2. The Greenhouse Effect Explained (in-depth video of how it works, with diagrams)
- (tags:globalwarming co2 video )
- 3. Our new national pastime is pretending that Single Market membership is not a good idea
- (tags:europe uk doom trade politics )
- 4. As a senior developer I've had many days like this
- (tags:development software work computers )
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Interesting Links for 25-02-2022
Feb. 25th, 2022 12:00 pm- Petition to require the Royal Mail to continue to accept non-barcoded postage stamps
- (tags:royalmail petition )
- This is pretty much how I feel when people say "There wasn't a sequel" because they didn't like it
- (tags:StarWars sequels movies canon )
- Interactive Modeling Software Designs Intricate Japanese Wood Joinery
- (tags:japan wood craftwork design software )
- The negative space of war.
- (tags:war airplanes visualisation russia ukraine ViaDrCross )
- Clarifying the mandates of the Scottish Human Rights Commission and the Equality and Human Rights Commission in Scotland
- (tags:Scotland rights lgbt transgender )
- Dear Esther dev 10 years on: "That was strange. That was quite a ride."
- (tags:games history interview )
- Britain at loggerheads with EU allies over cutting Russia from Swift bank system
- (tags:Banking Russia UK Europe Ukraine )
- Boris Johnson Allowed Russian Interference into the UK as Putin Prepared For War
- (tags:UK RUSSIA Conservatives )
- An asteroid killed dinosaurs in spring—which might explain why mammals survived
- (tags:dinosaurs extinction paleontology )
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