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Interesting Links for 16-11-2023
Nov. 16th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. People think white AI-generated faces are more real than actual photos
- (tags:ai faces reality )
- 2. Scottish photographer big award for a small photo
- (tags:photography )
- 3. I disagree with James Cleverly over a great many things, but he clearly has a good leadership style
- (tags:leadership )
- 4. Google snippets falsely claimed eating glass has health benefits (because it shared text generated by an AI)
- (tags:google ai glass health fraud OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Iceland volcano in pictures: Steam pours from cracks, sinkholes collapse roads as eruption feared imminent
- (tags:iceland volcano photos )
- 6. AI outperforms conventional weather forecasting for the first time
- (tags:ai weather )
- 7. The company whose systems didn't do DST
- (tags:time xml summer computers wtf )
Interesting Links for 31-08-2018
Aug. 31st, 2018 12:00 pm- Unmarried mother wins access to a widowed parent's allowance in a landmark Supreme Court ruling.
- (tags: law marriage relationships uk pensions )
- Ever wanted to see “beyond” the NES game screen? With WideNES, you can
- (tags: games emulation )
- "I won’t cheer if Wonga fails. I was grateful it was there for me"
- (tags: loans poverty )
- Panasonic to move Europe headquarters from UK to Amsterdam
- (tags: business europe uk doom )
- People who are religious gain happiness from believing there is a deeper meaning to everyday events
- (tags: religion meaning psychology )
- Microsoft will require suppliers to offer paid parental leave
- (tags: parenting holidays Microsoft usa )
- Earth quickly heading for 'point of no return' unless we takes immediate action, climate scientists warn
- (tags: globalwarming thefuture doom )
- Calm down. Barnier's words were not a green light for Brexit deal
- (tags: uk Europe doom )
- Ireland to hold referendum on women's role in the home
- (tags: Ireland referendum women )
- AI Can Make Anyone Look Like a Professional Dancer
- (tags: dance video ai )
- Google reportedly bought Mastercard data to link online ads with offline purchases
- (tags: advertising surveillance Google mastercard shopping )
- Once you've fallen for someone else you're not likely to be able to save your relationship.
- (tags: relationships psychology )
- New centrist party backed by LoveFilm founder splits before launch
- (tags: politics uk )
- The new Edinburgh St James shopping centre is now half finished
- (tags: edinburgh construction shopping thefuture )
- EU to recommend that member states abolish daylight saving time
- Although the article seems unclear if we're abolishing Summer Time or moving to it always being Summer Time. (Because Daylight Saving Time is summer time.)
Which would be odd, if only because it would mean that it was never Greenwich Mean Time in Greenwich any more.
I'll look forward to more details coming out.
(tags: Europe summer time )
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Interesting Links for 08-10-2016
Oct. 8th, 2016 12:00 pm- Government bars foreign academics from advising on Brexit
- (tags: uk europe OhForFucksSake )
- I'm being stripped of my citizenship – along with 65 million other Britons
- (tags: UK europe citizenship )
- Putting heating on ‘like a bereavement’
- (tags: death summer funny time )
- Doon Mackichan speaks out against 'crime porn'
- (tags: crime tv )
Interesting Links for 04-09-2015
Sep. 4th, 2015 12:00 pm- European Referendum polls are showing a win for staying in.
- Clive Coleman: Naked Rambler 'to continue protest'
- Why college students are now smoking more pot than cigarettes
- 3D-Printed Penises Reveal That Women Prefer Normal Sized Dicks to Anacondas
- Possibly the most British thing ever
- Are emotive appeals effective in persuading people to give to charity?
- Has one picture shifted our view of migrants?
- The disastrous Australian Emu War.
- What do the people of Orkney think of Alistair Carmichael?
- EU states refuse to pass tax data to European tax-probe committee
- Emotional behavior altered after multiple exposures to anesthesia during infancy
- Julie and I have an occasional mouse visitor. We are currently pretending it's this dragon instead
- The true story of Eleanor Rigby
- The mystery of Devil's Kettle Falls
- Fish go down to 8370m. But not 8400m. Nobody knows why.
- Darren Aronofsky film soundtracker Clint Mansell speaks about their partnership
- The Sim City Planning Commission Handbook (1990)
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Interesting Links for 25-09-2014
Sep. 25th, 2014 12:00 pm- Please be careful with your iPhone 6 - looks like it bends if you apply too much pressure
- Cats aren't actually domesticated. (And they think of you as a large, not terribly effective, cat)
- India now has a spaceship orbiting Mars
- The Surprising Path to a Faster NYTimes.com (How do you optimise a site with a million static pages?)
- Technology boost for Scotland's oil reserves in North Sea
- Scots should forget devo max – it’s not possible and wasn’t offered
- China Asks: How much will it cost us to make Solar Cheaper than Coal?
- Neil Gaiman: ‘Terry Pratchett isn’t jolly. He’s angry’
- Black holes don't exist
- Shock news: male sex toys are popular, and men read erotica too
- Bisexuality and the classics
- "Game Of Thrones" As Told By The Daily Mail Sidebar Of Shame
- What happens when you ask a bunch of authors about the symbolism in their books?
- Summer Glau rehearsing a fight scene for Serenity is something to behold
- Spike TV is making a show of Red Mars!
- One in four Americans want their state to secede from the U.S., but why?
- Most studies into computer games and violence suffer the same fatal flaw
- How do male scientists balance the demands of work and family?
- Nanotechnology leads to LEDs that are 57% more efficient
- Why did people stop believing in the welfare system? It's all Tony Blair's fault
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