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- apple,
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- children,
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- war,
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Interesting Links for 05-08-2022
- 1. The many levels of racism
- (tags:racism ontology )
- 2. Behind a nice conceit and good packaging, the Mr Men and Little Miss books are very, very bad
- (tags:books children )
- 3. Turning off the UK's analogue phone system is proving harder than they thought
- (tags:uk phones )
- 4. Putin is recruiting prisoners from Russian jails to fight on frontline in Ukraine
- (tags:russia ukraine war prison )
- 5. Edinburgh North Bridge to remain closed until 2025 after discovery of 'previously concealed' issues
- (tags:Edinburgh bridge )
- 6. How to really change someone's mind
- (tags:belief communication viaDanielDWilliam )
- 7. The monkeypox situation keeps getting worse - here's why
- (tags:monkey pandemic vaccination doom viaDanielDWilliam )
- 8. Playing action video games boosts brain activity and decision-making skills
- (tags:videogames games psychology )
- 9. Apple retaliated against women who complained about rape, assault, and harrassment
- (tags:apple rape harrassment assault OhForFucksSake )
- 10. Who knew that watching fences being knitted would be so soothing
- (tags:video )
- 11. Summers are getting so hot in Florida that turtles there are mostly born female
- (tags:florida usa globalwarming turtle gender )
- 12. Scottish prosecutors angered by US criticism of record on child slavery
- (tags:scotland children slavery )
- 13. It's lovely to see sheer joy in playing with technology
- (tags:Technology weather viaSwampers touchscreen happiness )
- 14. What happens to Russian soldiers who refuse to continue fighting in Ukraine?
- (tags:ukraine russia military war viaDanielDWilliam )
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- airplanes,
- airport,
- amazon,
- animation,
- batteries,
- bigotry,
- conservatives,
- design,
- ethics,
- europe,
- funny,
- games,
- genocide,
- history,
- lgbt,
- lighting,
- links,
- mining,
- morocco,
- music,
- ohforfuckssake,
- pandemic,
- party,
- photos,
- politics,
- russia,
- sex,
- society,
- space,
- sun,
- time,
- transgender,
- transport,
- turtle,
- uk,
- ukraine,
- unions,
- viapatrickhadfield,
- video,
- work
Interesting Links for 05-04-2022
- 1. Russian state-owned media reveal their horrific plans for Ukraine
- (tags:Russia Ukraine genocide )
- 2. The EHRC are producing transphobic guidance that is explicitly against what the law states
- (tags:LGBT transgender UK bigotry OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Seen from space, the world's longest conveyor belt is in Morocco (carrying phosphorus over 100km)
- (tags:mining transport Morocco )
- 4. I assume it's deliberate that the old-school music here is vastly more varied and interesting than the modern ones?
- (tags:music video animation )
- 5. Sisyphus: turtle edition
- (tags:funny turtle video )
- 6. Over 80 LGBT and HIV organizations pull out of UK government's LGBT conference over transphobia and conversion therapy
- (tags:LGBT UK transgender bigotry conservatives )
- 7. Backyard approaching lighting at Adelaide Airport
- (tags:airport airplanes lighting )
- 8. How did the Victorians Become a Reference Point for Joyless Prudery?
- (tags:history society UK sex )
- 9. Government's former ethics chief supplied karaoke machine for Downing Street party
- (tags:ethics conservatives party Pandemic )
- 10. Europe's Biggest Lithium Mine Is Caught in a Political Maelstrom
- (tags:mining batteries Europe politics )
- 11. New Amazon Worker Chat App Would Ban Words Like "Union", "Plantation", and..."Restroom"
- (tags:Amazon work OhForFucksSake unions viaPatrickHadfield )
- 12. New picture shows highest resolution ever
- (tags:sun photos space )
- 13. How Elden Ring Succeeds by Ignoring 20 Years of Open-World Design
- (tags:design games )
- 14. People in non-industrial societies spend a lot of time doing nothing
- (tags:society time )
Entry tags:
- autism,
- bbc,
- conservatives,
- estrogen,
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- labour,
- libdem,
- links,
- politics,
- regulation,
- sex,
- streaming,
- temperature,
- turtle,
- uk
Interesting Links for 02-08-2019
- Tories could lose majority overnight as MP warns he could leave the party
- (tags:politics uk Conservatives )
- BBC iPlayer gets Ofcom green light to make shows available for a year
- (tags:BBC streaming regulation )
- High levels of oestrogens in the womb linked to autism
- (tags:autism estrogen hormones )
- Turtle embryos influence their sex by wiggling inside their egg
- (tags:turtle sex temperature )
- Lib Dems win Brecon and Radnorshire byelection, cutting Johnson Commons majority to one
- Looking at the figures, the only things you can certain of is that FPTP is terrible and Labour are in real trouble.
(tags:libdem Conservatives politics uk ) - When will Labour try to force out Boris Johnson with a vote of no confidence?
- (tags:Labour Conservatives politics uk )
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Interesting Links for 03-07-2018
- Prototype Discworld spotted in the wild
- (tags: terrypratchett turtle )
- We're Not Addicted to Smartphones, We're Addicted to Social Interaction
- (tags: psychology addiction phones socialnetworking )
- More States Opting to 'Robo-Grade' Student Essays by Computer (even though cheating is easy)
- (tags: computers essays automation teaching )
- The lost standing stones of Devon are still hiding from archaeologists
- (tags: archaeology Devon uk )
- MPs request Bank and Treasury Brexit analysis. Today. Not two fucking years ago.
- (tags: UK Europe incompetence OhForFucksSake economics )
Entry tags:
- archaeology,
- art,
- australia,
- barackobama,
- children,
- economics,
- education,
- environment,
- epicwtf,
- europe,
- evolution,
- fail,
- france,
- funny,
- games,
- independence,
- inequality,
- links,
- london,
- maps,
- money,
- music,
- plastic,
- politics,
- poll,
- race,
- research,
- robots,
- scotland,
- sound,
- surgery,
- technology,
- testing,
- transport,
- turtle,
- uk,
- usa,
- vianwhyte,
- viapadmini,
- visualisation,
- war,
- work
Interesting Links for 15-07-2016
- Scotland slides slowly closer to Independence
- (tags: scotland europe independence )
- Robot runs over toddler in shopping centre (IT HAS BEGUN!)
- (tags: robots children war )
- What are the British public's expectations of what will happen under Brexit?
- (tags: uk europe poll )
- Blind-tested soloists unable to tell Stradivarius violins from modern instruments
- (tags: music testing research sound )
- Oxford Street to be pedestrianised by 2020
- (tags: london transport )
- Up to 70% of people in developed countries have seen incomes stagnate
- (tags: economics money work )
- Very Brexit Problems
- (tags: uk europe funny )
- France bans plastic bags
- (tags: plastic france environment )
- Everything you need to know about Theresa May’s Brexit nightmare in five minutes
- (tags: europe politics uk viaNWhyte )
- Things that are Obama's fault, in graphs
- (tags: barackobama visualisation )
- Why Do Turtles Have Shells?
- (tags: turtle evolution archaeology )
- Why are there fewer Pokemon locations in black neighborhoods?
- (tags: race inequality Technology maps usa games viaPadmini )
- Theresa May praised for having lowest number of privately-educated ministers in over 70 years
- (tags: politics Education )
- There are few words as terrifying as "amateur surgeon" - particularly in the same headline as "testicle"
- (tags: surgery australia EpicWTF )
- 91-year-old woman fills out crossword that turns out to be $116k artwork in German museum
- (tags: art fail )
Entry tags:
- academia,
- antarctic,
- apple,
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- comic,
- copyright,
- corruption,
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- globalwarming,
- hbo,
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- linux,
- methane,
- microsoft,
- military,
- movies,
- operatingsystems,
- perspective,
- phones,
- politics,
- relationships,
- republicans,
- science,
- society,
- software,
- stanleykubrick,
- technology,
- turtle,
- tv,
- uk,
- usa,
- viafanf,
- video,
- windows
Interesting Links for 31-08-2012
- What Killed the Linux Desktop
- Apple Rejects App That Tracks U.S. Drone Strikes. Huzzah for censorship!
- Antarctic may host hundreds of billions of tons of methane.
- Why Johnny can’t stream: How video copyright went insane (loopholes inside loopholes inside loopholes)
- Fox News calls Paul Ryan a liar.
- Stanley Kubrick likes it when things line up. (Nicely effective video)
- Why "Hard-Working Families" is a toxic phrase
- How difference academic subjects say "I'm not dating anyone".
- HBO brings streaming-only service to Europe (well, Nordic countries so far)
- Apparently people just don't want Microsoft Windows phones.
- How the turtle got its shell
- Most Online Journalism Is Rotten to the Core