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Interesting Links for 14-01-2022
Jan. 14th, 2022 12:00 pm- In bad news for US cloud services, Austrian website's use of Google Analytics found to breach GDPR
- (tags:privacy usa europe )
- Covid in pregnancy linked to birth-related complications (but vaccination isn't)
- (tags:Pandemic pregnancy )
- New external system for complaints against Scottish ministers
- (tags:Scotland complaints government )
- A collection of Simpsons/Watchmen mashups
- (tags:funny Simpsons mashup Watchmen comics )
- The Inside Story of Politics for All, Twitter's Infamous UK News Account
- (tags:UK news Twitter )
- Beautiful butterfly dresses!
- (tags:clothing insects )
- How to communicate with difficult doctors
- (tags:doctors language )
- What If…. the Scottish Conservatives once more become a separate party?
- (tags:scotland Conservatives politics viaDanielDWilliam )
- Unvaccinated in New York 13 times more likely to get hospitalized
- (tags:vaccination pandemic newyork )
- Orwell on Political Correctness
- (tags:GeorgeOrwell language )
- Putting cows into the Mootrix increases their milk production
- Prior art http://pvponline.com/comic/mon-may-12
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Interesting Links for 17-01-2020
Jan. 17th, 2020 12:00 pm- C Is Not a Low-level Language
- (tags:programming computers hardware software design )
- Christopher Tolkien has died
- (tags:Tolkien death france )
- 'Watchmen': HBO won't continue without after creator says he's done with it
- Oh the irony
(tags:Watchmen TV HBO DamonLindelof ) - No-Bullshit Games - mobile games that aren't pay-to-win, have non-removable ads, or full of demands to spend more.
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- An animation showing temperature change by country from 1880 to 2019
- (tags:globalwarming visualisation animation )
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Interesting Links for 18-12-2019
Dec. 18th, 2019 01:53 pm- Dr. Manhattan's 12 Days of Christmas
- (tags:viaSwampers christmas time watchmen )
- Turns out that it's not '0%' of Labour ads that are misleading. It's 7%. Which is _almost_ as high as the Conservative's 88%, right?
- (tags:lies politics uk labour Conservatives )
- Ofcom proposes locked-handset ban
- (tags:regulation phones uk )
- Gender recognition consultation opens in Scotland
- (tags:Transgender law scotland )
- The Jewish Chronicle, hater of Jeremy Corbyn declares that "The concept of 'Islamophobia' is thus profoundly anti-Jew."
- (tags:OhForFucksSake Jews Islam bigotry )
- The similarities between The Last Jedi and The Empire Strikes Back are striking
- (tags:StarWars )
- The tree of life may have only two major branches once again
- (tags:life prehistory )
- 30 (procedurally generated) animations. I love how pretty things are nowadays
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- Japan changes the way they anglicise names
- (tags:names japan )
- Britain has *already* started to go Mad Max!
- (tags:driving wtf video UK )
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Interesting Links for 18-10-2019
Oct. 18th, 2019 03:07 pm- John Bercow declares trans rights are human rights in passionate speech
- (tags:uk politics transgender lgbt )
- Nottingham's Workplace Parking Levy Creates Jobs, Cuts Car Use and Slashes Pollution
- (tags:cars transport tax cities )
- Emergency services rescue 86kg mastiff after he gets too tired to finish his walk -
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- The real (and fake) sex lives of Bella Thorne
- (tags:sex abuse celebrity women pornography fraud viaDanielDWilliam )
- Saturday is the most important day in the entire Brexit saga
- (tags:UK Europe doom )
- Culture Plays An Important Role In Our Perception Of Musical Pitch
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- Brexit: Exiled Tory MPs will help deliver new referendum if Boris Johnson's deal is defeated, supporters believe
- (tags:UK Europe referendum wtf )
- Johnson's Brexit deal: far worse than Theresa May's and infinitely inferior to Remaining
- (tags:politics UK Europe Doom )
- In U.S., Decline of Christianity Continues at Rapid Pace
- (tags:Christianity religion society demographics USA )
- Fat accumulates inside lungs of overweight people, causing inflammation
- (tags:fat inflammation )
- Like It or Not, Damon Lindelof Made His Own Watchmen (An in-depth interview. Spoilerish stuff is discussed)
- (tags:watchmen DamonLindelof tv interview )
- I am not shocked or angry Dolly Parton vehemently rejects feminism. Here's why.
- (tags:feminism history women )
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Interesting Links for 23-08-2019
Aug. 23rd, 2019 12:04 pm- Jeremy Corbyn's call for 'tactics' meeting - who is going and who isn't?
- (tags:UK Europe politics )
- The main thing I love about the Watchmen trailer is that I have no idea where it's going
- (tags:watchmen TV wtf )
- The crystal growers who sparked a revolution in graphene electronics
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- A new survey shows what really interests 'pro-lifers': controlling women
- Yes, I know it's not a surprise. But it's always good to have data.
(tags:misogyny abortion society ) - Starbucks, monetary superpower
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- How a Tarahumara woman won a Mexican ultramarathon in sandals
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- iPhone 7 radiation safety tests find device over legal limit
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Interesting Links for 09-05-2019
May. 9th, 2019 12:03 pm- RemainEU.org - Voting Strategy for the 2019 EU Elections
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- Tactical Voting in the UK in the EU Elections 2019 - Why is it so difficult?
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- Britain goes week without coal power for first time since Industrial Revolution
- (tags:coal globalwarming uk electricity GoodNews )
- Edinburgh University's response to the climate emergency
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- Scotland's bottle return scheme deposit to be set at 20p
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- New Scottish rail timetables to ease commuter misery
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- New Type of Dementia Identified
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- HBO drops first teaser for its upcoming Watchmen series
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- 'Avengers: Endgame': The Screenwriters Answer Every Question You Might Have
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- Conversations I can look forward to having with my daughter
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- BBC staff during independence referendum thought "that our responsibility was to produce a series of pieces to demonstrate how foolish it would be to vote Yes"
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- The Muslim who saved the (Marvel) Universe
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- ??200m fund to replace unsafe cladding in wake of Grenfell Tower fire
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- The bears and the dogs are in cahoots!
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- Tactical voting advice for the European elections. (backed up by polling)
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- Work on the Edinburgh tram extension to begin this month
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- Facebook Algorithms Make It Harder to Catch Extremists
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- The Brexit party is a post-politics entity
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Interesting Links for 23-11-2018
Nov. 23rd, 2018 11:00 am- 'He's like Al Capone': turkey on the loose ruffles feathers in Rhode Island town
- "The turkey can also fly, which animal control officers are unable to do"
(tags: ViaDrCross turkey usa ) - Salvation Army warns staff to keep their homophobia quiet
- (tags: lgbt religion charity homophobia bigotry )
- Buses and taxis to lead UK self-driving public transport push in Edinburgh and London
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- Nuisance calls: new UK law provides for director liability
- (tags: UK phones law )
- The act of drawing something has a “massive” benefit for memory compared with writing it down
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- Downing Street says there will be no new Brexit referendum while Theresa May is prime minister. So if the will of parliament is for a referendum, she resigns or is ousted
- (tags: europe uk referendum )
- 6 Strange Facts about the Interstellar Visitor 'Oumuamua
- (tags: space weird )
- More conferences should do this
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- Automated Couture: Using Robots to Make Clothing
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- The coal industry is in a lot of trouble
- (tags: coal economics )
- When the servers go down people can't control their central heating. And it's getting cold outside...
- (tags: heating Internet OhForFucksSake )
- The Watchmen movie proves you can be faithful to a comic and still miss its whole damn point
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- We’re heading for a second referendum – and maybe a third
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Interesting Links for 18-08-2018
Aug. 18th, 2018 12:00 pm- The Next Ten Billion Years
- (tags: thefuture short_story scifi )
- Job interviews are worse than useless (and so are academic ones)
- (tags: interviews fail research psychology work academia viaSwampers )
- Austerity doesn’t work. Here's a very simple explanation for why.
- I agree with all of this other than the last couple of seconds
(tags: austerity economics video labour ) - A list of things that are older than students starting uni in September...
- (tags: age history funny )
- HoverGlide – The World’s First Floating Backpack
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- What fraction of Pennsylvania Catholic priests were child molesters?
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- Israel bars Gaza mother from accompanying 3-year-old son to chemotherapy
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- Damon Lindelof on the new Watchmen TV series and what he wants to achieve with it
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- Mostly saving this for next time some idiot claims the American Civil War wasn't about slavery
- (tags: slavery usa history )
- Home Office keeps some asylum seekers waiting over 20 years
- (tags: UK asylum OhForFucksSake )
- Lot of stuff on the news about the impact of No Deal on UK road haulers and drivers. FYI the EU has published 68 documents that explain in detail the law that will apply to the UK, as a 'third country'. It is, of course, terrifying.
- (tags: law UK Europe regulation doom )
- Newton's first law as illustrated with a dog
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Interesting Links for 23-05-2018
May. 23rd, 2018 12:00 pm- Genetic differences between people across the world are no greater than differences between pigeons
- (tags: genetics )
- Damon Lindelof writes open letter to Watchmen fans with details on HBO series
- (tags: tv comics watchmen )
- Annual US housing costs as a percent of median US household income
- (tags: housing usa visualisation )
- 'growth mindset' educational interventions aren't very effective
- (tags: psychology education belief )
- In India, Journalists Face Slut-Shaming and Rape Threats (plus fake porn videos)
- (tags: abuse journalism India OhForFucksSake )
- Dealership Makes Woman Sitting Right in Front of Them Confirm She's Not a Robot
- (tags: robots funny )
- NHS Highland blasted for autism ignorance
- (tags: Scotland NHS autism OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 16-04-2018
Apr. 16th, 2018 12:00 pm- In case you weren't aware how awesome Christopher Lee is
- (tags: ChristopherLee awesome )
- How To Get Out of a Speeding Ticket
- (tags: funny video speed police viaSwampers )
- Glitch tapestries
- (tags: materials Technology art )
- What will it take for the Lib Dems to get bolder?
- (tags: politics libdem )
- ‘I was a teacher for 17 years, but I couldn’t read or write’
- (tags: reading Education teaching usa )
- Ten Things A Diehard Alan Moore Fan Learned From the New Annotated Watchmen
- (tags: watchmen alanmoore comics )
- H&R Block and Intuit Lobbying Against Simpler Tax Filing
- (tags: usa tax OhForFucksSake )
- Ask me first: What self-assessments can tell us about autism
- (tags: autism research )
- The way they the government has been treating the 1940s-1970s Caribbean immigrants and their children is frankly shameful
- (tags: immigration UK OhForFucksSake )
- Why more authors are going audio-only
- (tags: writing audio )
- Glorious Portraits from the 2017 World Beard And Mustache Championship
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- When Do Kids Understand Death?
- (tags: death children )
- Hackers stole a casino's database through a thermometer in the lobby fish tank
- (tags: casino Internet security OhForFucksSake )
- Found Footage Offers a New Glimpse at 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
- (tags: earthquake sanfrancisco usa history film )
- ‘Moderate’ drinking guidelines are too loose
- (tags: alcohol health )
- Talking to a young child about death
- (tags: death children prehistory )
- Over 65,000 home routers are being used to create proxy networks for various types of secret or illegal activities.
- (tags: hacking security internet )
- It is frankly amazing what people can fit into 64KB
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Interesting Links for 22-06-2017
Jun. 22nd, 2017 12:00 pm- Tory-DUP deal plunged into fresh jeopardy as unionists demand £2bn investment in Northern Ireland
- (tags: politics NorthernIreland Conservatives money )
- World's biggest coal company closes 37 mines as solar power's influence grows
- (tags: india coal electricity )
- Directors? Star Wars Don't Need No Stinking Directors
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- Wal-Mart to vendors: get off Amazon's cloud
- (tags: amazon business Technology )
- DUP MP says there is 'no demand' for removing terrorist flags flying in her constituency
- (tags: terrorism NorthernIreland uk )
- Ikea investigates after bowl sets Swede's grapes on fire
- (tags: ikea Sweden fire design viaSwampers )
- Is £70,000 a year rich?
- It is, and it isn't. Basically, the middle-class standard of living has dropped. Largely because of housing prices, I suspect.
(tags: money uk ) - What Wonder Woman got right and wrong about World War I
- (tags: WonderWoman history wwi )
- Damon Lindelof's Bringing a Watchmen Series to HBO
- (tags: watchmen comics tv )
- f.lashes - Interactive LED Lashes!
- (tags: led light Technology viaElfy )
- Radical kindness as an expression of anger.
- (tags: life anger niceness viaElfy )
- Portrait: Masahiro Kikuno, Japanese Independent Watchmaker
- (tags: time design japan )
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Interesting Links for 01-05-2017
May. 1st, 2017 12:00 pm- "Thoughts about the "strong and stable" mantra, in the context of my mum, who thinks Theresa May is great."
- (tags: jobs history society uk politics )
- Theresa May Says There Are "Many Complex Reasons" Why Nurses Use Food Banks
- (tags: food pay Conservatives )
- Cats Who Just Realized You Took Them To The Vet
- (tags: cats cute )
- Watchmen (2009 movie), ultimate cut (sums up my feelings nicely)
- (tags: watchmen movies alanmoore superheroes comics )
- "All paths to happiness" - a short story across infinite worlds
- (tags: happiness short_story quantum scifi )
Interesting Links for 07-06-2016
Jun. 7th, 2016 12:00 pm- Britain's housing shortage takes marriage, children, and careers off the agenda for millions
- (tags: society housing uk relationships marriage )
- Panama Papers Show How Rich United States Clients Hid Millions Abroad
- (tags: usa tax )
- The Condorcet Paradox at work? Rock-paper-scissors in the EU referendum
- (tags: referendum europe immigration voting paradox viaFanf )
- Uncovering a 30 year old C64 bug
- (tags: bug Technology history )
- The Five Monkeys Experiment Obviously Never Happened
- (tags: monkeys science psychology meme )
- Babies don't just look cute, they even smell cute
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- The Simulation Argument FAQ
- (tags: simulation matrix philosophy reality )
- A friend in Edinburgh is starting up a parent+kids choir
- (tags: music edinburgh )
- Saturday Morning Watchmen - disturbingly entertaining!
- (tags: watchmen animation funny )
- Genetic variations linked with social, economic success
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- In US, poverty dampens genetic influence on IQ
- (tags: iq genetics genes poverty usa )
- Connection established between anxiety control, inflammation, Type 2 diabetes
- (tags: anxiety diabetes inflammation )
- 2001 A Space Odyssey Fail (when every member of the orchestra plays the wrong instrument)
- (tags: music fail video )
- Disadvantages of purely functional programming
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- NoScript is harmful and promotes Malware!
- (tags: advertising web OhForFucksSake )
- Psychopathic colleagues can be helpful and co-operative
- Or, perhaps more accurately, "psychopathy is a mixture of different traits, not all of which are necessarily harmful."
(tags: psychopath psychology work ) - It’s Not Just Robots: Skilled Jobs Are Going to “Meatware”
- (tags: work Technology thefuture )
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Interesting Links for 01-04-2016
Apr. 1st, 2016 12:00 pm- There's a beauty contest for women in tech called IT Princess
- (tags: princess beauty computers OhForFucksSake )
- Bugs in our code? No waaaay....
- (tags: coding programming computers )
- An LJ suggestion I made in _2013_ has finally been posted.
- (tags: livejournal twitter )
- How to be the perfect rape victim
- (tags: rape viaTheFerrett )
- ‘Bloody do-gooder’ desperately confused as to why this is a bad thing
- (tags: society funny viaCipherGoth )
- 25 Superhero Films Just As Bad As Batman vs Superman
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- Mathematicians mapped out every “Game of Thrones” relationship to find the main character
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- GlaxoSmithKline to 'drop patents in poor countries for better drug access'
- (tags: drugs healthcare patents )
- Is it better to treat mentally ill people in the community, or to lock them up?
- (tags: mentalhealth healthcare freedom )
- Scotland to give legal recognition to people who are neither male nor female
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- How Batman vs Superman should have gone
- (tags: batman superman funny comic )
- Shiny: A very entertaining stop-motion short (albeit with a couple of bits that annoyed me)
- (tags: video animation viaSkreidle )
- Watchmen April Fools is the best April Fools
- (tags: funny watchmen photoshop )
- 22 Teachers Caught Being Awesome
- (tags: teaching funny )
- Best explanation of alignment charts that I've seen in a long time
- (tags: roleplaying morality )
- Government announces separate internets for annoying people
- (tags: internet funny )
- April Fool's Day: 10 stories that look like pranks but aren't
- (tags: news funny )
- Satirical website not really sure what to do today
- (tags: news satire funny viaTaheerah )
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Interesting Links for 31-03-2016
Mar. 31st, 2016 12:00 pm- Schools charging parents for children to eat their own packed lunches | News
- (tags: food children school OhForFucksSake money )
- Microsoft and Canonical partner to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10 | ZDNet
- (tags: microsoft linux wtf )
- Is the War on Drugs really a war on black America?
- (tags: drugs racism society usa )
- The US radio market is on the brink of collapse
- (tags: radio money epicfail )
- Loads of Buffy, Angel, & Spike comics (pay what you want and help charity)
- (tags: buffy comics )
- No, Taking A Snapchat Screenshot Will Probably Not Land You In Jail
- (tags: copyright privacy law uk )
- This stupid award-winning animated short with a dog in it made me cry.
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- Animal Facts You Didn’t Know
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- FOMO is bad for your mental health
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- The FBI's war on math is still bullshit
- (tags: usa encryption mathematics OhForFucksSake )
- Psychoactive Substances Act delayed while the Home Office works out what it has banned
- (tags: psychedelics law uk OhForFucksSake )
- This is my Superman. Sadly, it is not Zack Snyder's Superman
- (And that's twice I've cried in one evening.)
(tags: superman viaTheFerrett ) - A Trafficking Survivor Shares Why She's Anti-Criminalization
- (tags: abuse sexwork prostitution legalisation )
- The ABC’s of D&D Monsters
- (tags: dnd funny art )
- Nintendo Employee 'Terminated' After Smear Campaign Over Censorship
- (tags: gaming nintendo wtf )
- How to send an 'E mail' - a video from 1984
- (tags: email video history computers viaSwampers )
- Also, this is my Batman. Who we also don't get to see in movies.
- (tags: batman comics )
- Alan Moore on Rorschach
- (tags: alanmoore watchmen comics )
- When Eisenhower tried to get rid of all of the lesbians in the military
- (tags: lgbt usa military history )
- Star Wars and Deadpool - two things that go so much better together
- (tags: StarWars funny )
- Star Trek is getting its own MAC makeup line
- (tags: StarTrek makeup )
- Late sleepers are tired of being discriminated against. And science has their back.
- (tags: sleep )
- The Strange Case of a Nazi Who Became an Israeli Hitman
- (tags: israel nazis EpicWTF history )
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- prostitution,
- psychedelics,
- racism,
- radio,
- school,
- sexwork,
- sleep,
- society,
- startrek,
- starwars,
- superman,
- uk,
- usa,
- viaswampers,
- viatheferrett,
- video,
- watchmen,
- wtf
Interesting Links for 09-01-2016
Jan. 9th, 2016 12:00 pm- How MSG Got A Bad Rap (Flawed Science And Xenophobia)
- How Would You Respond If Asked: ‘What Time is the 3 o’clock Parade?’
- Super Mario Watchmen cosplay crossover
- DWP fit-to-work assessments cost more money than they save
- What to do when men offer to buy you a drink
- In which JK Rowling gets her revenge on Stephen Fry
- A short story. Wherein two witches are promised the same child
- Cartoon Network UK defends censoring Steven Universe's 'gay' content
- Half-Life 1 & 2 writer answers fan’s HL3 question by announcing retirement
- Japan Keeps The Defunct Kami-Shirataki Train Station Open for Just One High-School Girl
- Anscombe's quartet - a very simple, visual, explanation of how easy it is to mislead with data
- (And the importance of visualising it)
- The wisdom of Uncle Iroh
- Beware the Straight Spouse Network
Tags:
- advice,
- alcohol,
- animation,
- avatar,
- children,
- cosplay,
- customerservice,
- data,
- dating,
- disabilities,
- disney,
- epicfail,
- fairytale,
- food,
- graphs,
- half-life,
- harrypotter,
- history,
- japan,
- jkrowling,
- lgbt,
- links,
- mario,
- math,
- msg,
- ohforfuckssake,
- short_story,
- statistics,
- stephenfry,
- support,
- trains,
- tv,
- uk,
- valve,
- viasteer,
- watchmen,
- welfare,
- witchcraft
Interesting Links for 14-12-2015
Dec. 14th, 2015 12:00 pm- Saudi Arabia: First woman councillor elected
- Setting The Default - Why it's important to keep pushing at cultural boundaries
- The Myth of the Good Guy With the Gun
- What Really Happens When You Get Shot
- Garfield. Minus Garfield. Minus Jon. Plus Jon Osterman (Dr Manhattan).
- The Radicalization of Luke Skywalker: A Jedi’s Path to Jihad
- Bacon-Flavored Condoms: Threat or Menace?
- The Power of Theatre (here persuading Nigerian representatives to talk about improving how they deal with scammers)
- We can now take high-frequency dopamine readings in humans (and it doesn't mean what we thought it did)
- This is still the best explanation of what's _really_ going on with Obi-Wan and Luke in Episode IV
- How the Labour party will now be slowly destroyed by our electoral system
- Padmé Didn't Die of a Broken Heart (I love this analysis)
- MRA Dilbert - Taking the words of Scott Adams and combining them with the art of Scott Adams
- Why Charles M. Schulz Gave Peanuts A Black Character (1968)
- Director George Miller Explains Why Mad Max: Fury Road Deserves Its Oscar Nominations
- Hospital holiday decorating
- Everything You Know About Latkes Is Wrong
Tags:
- analysis,
- bacon,
- brain,
- christmas,
- comic,
- comics,
- condoms,
- democracy,
- dilbert,
- dopamine,
- feminism,
- food,
- fraud,
- funny,
- garfield,
- guns,
- history,
- hospital,
- jews,
- labour,
- lies,
- links,
- men,
- movies,
- myths,
- nigeria,
- norms,
- ohforfuckssake,
- oscars,
- politics,
- race,
- racism,
- reform,
- rights,
- society,
- starwars,
- terrorism,
- theatre,
- viabartcalendar,
- viaelfy,
- viaswampers,
- voting,
- watchmen,
- women
Interesting Links for 23-08-2015
Aug. 23rd, 2015 12:00 pm- Watchmen - made with newspaper comic-strip characters
- The Washington Post shares photos of the TSA master keys...
- There have only been 70 years where you could consider locks completely trustworthy
- Mother wondering if she is to blame for Edinburgh Fringe show
- 6 Links Jeremy Corbyn Doesn’t Want You to Know About (Oh dear, this doesn't look good)
- Why Does Tap Water Go Stale Overnight?
- The Fundamental Limits Of Knowledge About The Start Of The Universe
- 40 leading economists point out that Jeremy Corbyn's policies are not actually extreme
- The Interleaving Effect: Mixing It Up Boosts Learning
- What the alternate Hugo Ballot would likely have been
- More and more women are identifying as bisexual and 'no label' rather than lesbian
- A footsoldier's equipment, from 1066 to the modern day
Interesting Links for 04-03-2014
Mar. 4th, 2014 11:00 am- Government complicit in redaction of exam questions on evolution
- I rather like this comment policy
- How Terry Gilliam's Watchmen movie would have ended
- All RGB colors in one image
- The Indian sanitary pad revolutionary (an inspiring story)
- Nick Clegg: Edward Snowden's revelations made it clear: security oversight must be fit for the internet age
- Who loses from punishing Russia?
