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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 )
Tags:
- 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
