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Interesting Links for 05-02-2024

1. RTD Reveals Series 14 of Doctor Who Was Planned to Air Much Sooner, But Hit By FX Delays
(tags:drwho TV cgi )
2. The Apple Vision Pro's Killer App Is … Kitchen Timers
(tags:time cooking augmentedreality apple )
3. Autistic brains create 42% more information at rest
(tags:autism brain )
4. Alan Moore's "Big Numbers" planning spreadsheet
(tags:comics alanmoore planning spreadsheet )
5. Playing dance mat games can help prevent falls in older people
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6. Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake 'chief financial officer'
(tags:ai fraud video )
7. Nearly 1 in 4 American Adults Who Get COVID-19 Suffer From Long COVID
(tags:Pandemic disability doom )
8. It's now 128 years since we discovered The Greenhouse Effect
(tags:globalwarming co2 history )
9. A newly discovered letter from Tolkien sheds light on Balrogs and Legolas
(tags:Tolkien funny lotr )
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2023-06-06 12:00 pm
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2022-12-04 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 04-12-2022

1. Who wants to give a tummy rub to a cute little kitty?
(tags:cats video cute leopard )
2. What did Susan Hussey say? Royal race row explained (with transcript)
(tags:racism UK royalty )
3. Twitter now reinstating neo-nazis
(tags:ElonMusk Nazis Twitter OhForFucksSake )
4. "I Was Wrong About Mastodon" (and moderation and scaling)
(tags:mastodon socialnetworking )
5. Labour's manipulation of selection contests reveals its emptiness of purpose
(tags:labour OhForFucksSake )
6. The Excel World Championship Is the Internet at Its Best
(tags:Excel spreadsheet competition )
7. EU Leader Uses Mastodon to Tell Elon Musk How Twitter Needs to Be Regulated
(tags:Twitter Mastodon regulation Europe ElonMusk )
8. How British colonialism killed 100 million Indians in 40 years
(tags:UK India )
9. 53% of Britons are non-religious. Who are they and what do they believe?
(tags:religion UK atheism society )
10. Learning to play the piano improves people's ability to process sights and sounds
(tags:piano music psychology )
11. Female monkeys prioritise friends and actively reduce social circle as they age
(tags:monkey friendship family )
12. UK to let safety laws lapse. Because sovereignty.
(tags:safety UK Europe law OhForFucksSake )
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2020-12-07 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 07-12-2020

The 1,700 year old skyscraper city that's being destroyed by the weather
(tags:weather history yemen architecture viaDanielDWilliam )
How the Brothers Grimm went hunting for fairytales, accidentally changed the course of historical linguistics, and kickstarted a new field of scholarship in folklore.
(tags:history Germany language stories fairytale )
Excel formulas become Turing complete
(tags:programming spreadsheet Microsoft )
If you are giving the Guardian money then you are supporting bigoted lies that kill children
(tags:guardian bigotry LGBT transgender OhForFucksSake )
Forget London, Brexit fight is about Paris and Berlin
(tags:Germany France Europe UK trade )
Why a "soft Brexit" was never on the table - by an MP who tried to prevent a hard one
(tags:UK politics Europe history )
Charlie Stross on how the next month or so are likely to look (Bad. Very bad)
(tags:UK Europe Doom charlesstross )
Zalando boss to quit so his wife can focus on her career while he looks after the kids
(tags:work women family )
The 'virtual nannies' looking after kids via Zoom
(tags:childcare children remote )
Kids can eat free in Asda cafes throughout December
(tags:children food supermarkets UK )
What might travel, holidays, and commuting look like over the next ten years?
(tags:thefuture travel work holidays )
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2020-10-06 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 06-10-2020

On Vaccinations Programmes and Normality in September 2021
(tags:vaccination pandemic )
What should the democrats do if they win the election?
(tags:USA politics )
Shock and despair follow revelations that Test and Trace system is being run on Excel
(tags:Excel spreadsheet pandemic OhForFucksSake incompetence )
Boris Johnson encourages people to congregate indoors for the good of the economy
(tags:cinema BorisJohnson pandemic OhForFucksSake )
Lawrence Fox is backed by some deeply unpleasant people with a lot of media knowledge
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1310953494799626240.html
(tags:fascism racism UK media politics )
Details on what went wrong with the Excel/Track and Trace fiasco
"The problem is that the PHE developers picked an old file format to do this - known as XLS. As a consequence, each template could handle only about 65,000 rows of data rather than the one million-plus rows that Excel is actually capable of."
(tags:fail Excel programming )
People Who Want To Be More Empathic May Also Develop "Liberal" Moral Values
(tags:politics morals empathy psychology )
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2020-08-30 12:00 pm
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2020-05-28 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 28-05-2020

This is an *excellent* summary of the Cummings situation
(tags:politics UK conservatives OhForFucksSake pandemic )
Eden Project to explore Dundee as new tourist attraction venue
(tags:nature scotland )
We aren't going to get a deal with the EU
(tags:europe uk doom )
People want to know why a disgraced TalkTalk CEO is leading the government's testing programme
(tags:OhForFucksSake UK pandemic )
Boris Johnson in "unaware of how awful the Conservatives are" shock
(tags:conservatives OhForFucksSake BorisJohnson immigration )
Government refusing to sign up to Brexit safeguards so it can change Human Rights Act, Gove admits
(tags:UK Europe rights )
Spreadsheet poetry
(tags:poetry excel spreadsheet )
Doing Business In Japan (utterly fascinating)
(tags:business society japan )
Why are Polynesians so big and strong?
(tags:Polynesia humans genetics bodies )
Wuhan swabs 9 million people, tests 6.5 million for COVID-19 in 10 days
(tags:china pandemic impressive )
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2019-04-11 12:02 pm
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Interesting Links for 11-04-2019

Google Wing launches first commercial drone delivery service
(tags:google drones business )
"What I Learned By Binge-Watching 'Game of Thrones' Backward"
(tags:gameofthrones tv time )
'Strange blue lights' spotted over Arctic Circle explained by NASA
(tags:nasa arctic light )
First ever black hole image released
(tags:space )
Becoming Fleabag: Phoebe Waller-Bridge on stage - in pictures
(tags:theatre )
Harold Bloom: Anti-Inkling?
(tags:fantasy history writing uk )
More CO2 than ever before in 3 million years, shows unprecedented computer simulation
(tags:co2 globalwarming doom )
Police officers fined stalking victim before she was murdered
(tags:murder police OhForFucksSake epicfail )
Game of Thrones' most thorough guide in existence
(tags:gameofthrones spreadsheet impressive )
Game of Thrones Season 7 in three minutes (nicely animated)
(tags:gameofthrones video animation )
"I Drove My Childhood Favourite Racing Game In Real Life" (a lovely video about games and nostalgia)
(tags:video games )
Some lovely choreography here
(tags:video dance )
M87 Black Hole Size Comparison To Our Solar System
(tags:space xkcd )
Swiss court orders historic referendum re-run because the information provided was incomplete
(tags:Switzerland referendum )
The UK's most-streamed songs may surprise you
(tags:uk streaming music )
In a sovereign decision Ecuador withdrew the asylum status to Julian Assange after his repeated violations to international conventions and daily-life protocols. (And then he is arrested)
(tags:JulianAssange diplomacy asylum )
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2017-11-20 12:05 pm
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Interesting Links for 20-11-2017

But when is International Women's Day?
(tags: men mentalhealth health society )
How childhood gender-stereotyping damages boys
(tags: children boys stereotypes toys society men OhForFucksSake )
Fact checking the "half of all trans prisoners are sex offenders" reporting
(tags: transgender media OhForFucksSake )
Morrissey Defends Kevin Spacey And Harvey Weinstein, Saying Victims Should’ve Known What Could Happen
(tags: abuse OhForFucksSake )
Morrissey was never in The Smiths, say fans
(tags: funny music bigotry uk satire viaSwampers )
The UK government doesn't understand The Good Friday Agreement
(tags: uk Ireland NorthernIreland OhForFucksSake )
Why decentralised social networks aren't catching on
(tags: decentralisation socialnetworking )
I found the best post on Tumblr!
(tags: squirrel funny comic )
How George Washington tried to get back his escaped slave
(tags: usa history slavery )
As Women Take Over a Male-Dominated Field, the Pay Drops
(tags: money pay gender patriarchy )
A message from the Chair of LGBT+ Liberal Democrats
(tags: lgbt libdem )
Why Wikipedia cannot claim the earth is not flat
(tags: Wikipedia knowledge )
A quarter of people actively feel pain when they see others in pain
I do get a sense of nausea when I see some kind of injuries being inflicted on people. Fascinating how different people's reactions can be.
(tags: pain psychology )
Were there camels in Roman Britain?
(tags: rome camels history uk )
FactCheck: how many bankers were jailed for their part in the financial crisis?
(tags: banking crime uk usa )
Meet The Spreadsheet That Can Solve NYC Transit (and the Man Who Made It)
(tags: transport newyork spreadsheet viaSwampers usa )
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2015-09-03 12:00 pm
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