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Interesting Links for 03-06-2021
Jun. 3rd, 2021 12:00 pm- I recommend you do not do this to your penis
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- Guess how many objects are in Low Earth Orbit - then click on this link.
- (tags:space visualisation viaSwampers )
- Trans *and* not skinny? The NHS wants you to fuck off and pay for surgery yourself.
- (tags:nhs transgender OhForFucksSake )
- NFL pledges to stop assuming that black people are less intelligent
- (tags:racism football USA WTF )
- "I painstakingly built my own analog drum machine"
- (tags:drums music technology )
- Covid precautions may have killed off one strain of Flu
- (tags:pandemic flu viaDanielDWilliam )
- "Xbox Co-pilot mode changed my disabled sister's life"
- (tags:xbox disability amazing games consoles )
- The Loaf Guardians: Parsing the Early History of the Anglo-Saxons
- (tags:UK history )
- Scotland's largest council pension fund backs climate change move
- (tags:globalwarming pensions scotland glasgow )
- Amazon Won't Test Job Seekers For Marijuana Use, Backs Legalisation
- (tags:marijuana amazon legalisation )
- Mass scale manipulation of Twitter Trends discovered
- (tags:twitter fraud )
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Interesting Links for 13-08-2014
Aug. 13th, 2014 12:00 pm- Testosterone in men increases their brains' response to threat
- The world's largest scale model of the Solar System is in Sweden. Just about.
- What happens if you write a TCP stack in Python?
- Finally, there will be a reversible USB connector (that carries significant power too!)
- XBox One to support DLNA and MKV. Edging towards tempting...
- BGP routing table size issues caused problems for large chunks of the internet yesterday
- Love Robin Williams? Read this board-game review
- I _need_ this T-Shirt
- This is what happens when your country doesn't have mandatory sex education
- What caused today’s Internet hiccup
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Interesting Links for 13-04-2014
Apr. 13th, 2014 12:00 pm- Wallpaper porn
- Video: Nirvana reunion at Rock Hall of Fame sees Lorde, Joan Jett and St Vincent step in for Kurt Cobain
- How to eliminate the scourge of our times: toast sweat
- 5 Traits You Think You Control (But Totally Don't)
- The geology of Game of Thrones
- Twins’ immune systems look like those of complete strangers
- An Eyeful of Sound - animating people's synaesthesia experiences
- Someone out there is writing a book about there being two kinds of people: Goats and Dogs.
- Confirmation of neurobiological origin of attention-deficit disorder (in mice)
- Gender neutral cosmetics. And about time too.
- The state of British prisons is a disgrace, particularly if you maintain your innocence
- The technical hackery used to get Titanfall running on an XBox 360 is damned impressive.
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Interesting Links for 11-12-2013
Dec. 11th, 2013 11:00 am- What PS3 and Xbox 360 can do that next-gen can't
Media streaming is a big one for me. PS3 is our main streaming device.
- How to write about The North
- Same-sex weddings to begin in March (in England/Wales)
- Scotland to tie pay for MSPs to public sector wages.
- 5000 year old female skeleton has an artificial eye - inlaid with gold!
- US banks to be banned from trading using their own money
- Artificial sweetener aspartame continues to be totally safe
- Human brain hard-wired for rural tranquillity
- Miraclement Recolouring Comparison (for the imminent reprints)
It's going to kill me to wait for the trades!
- The VICE Albums of the Year 2013 (hilarious)
- Life on Earth may have developed below rather than above ground
- YouTube names 2013's top trends.
- Uruguay legalises production and sale of cannabis
- The fourth wave of feminism: meet the rebel women
- China says $3.7 trillion is enough - Will Mostly Stop Buying dollars to suppress appreciation of yuan
- The death of the Almighty Johnsons (I loved the end of season three, but was hoping for a season four)
- Charles Stross audience-interview over on io9.
- George Osborne's U-turn could add £200bn to energy bills
- Madagascar village hit by bubonic plague
- Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram
- Europe Fisheries Vote Shows That the EU Can Be Reformed
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Interesting Links for 11-07-2013
Jul. 11th, 2013 12:00 pm- Valve's flat management structure 'like high school'
- What next for the privatised Royal Mail?
- Internet petitioners want Xbox One’s digital sharing features back
- Help produce an anthology of the best Scottish comics
- A decent sized picture of the "Real" Iron Throne.
- Why are there no movies where Harry is just good friends with Sally?
- 'Game of Thrones' characters in retro 80's clothes: Tis Grand Theft Westeros.
- Apparently I am simultaneously not yet 30 and have been 30 forever.
- Not Everything Is a Feminist Issue, for Chrissakes
Interesting Links for 01-07-2013
Jul. 1st, 2013 12:00 pm- Valve Starts Sharing Revenue With Toolmakers
- Texas teen makes violent joke during video game, is jailed for months
- The PS4 and Xbox One aren't that expensive, historically speaking.
- Google making the Web faster with protocol that reduces round trips
- First MP comes out as bisexual.
- Vietnam shipped slave labour to Russia in order to pay off war-debt in the 80s.
- Why retail console games have never been cheaper
- Man creates “invisible headphones” by implanting magnets into his ears
- Rule #1 of running tv-associated conventions: Do not insult the actors.
- Living in a city makes you more innovative (and six other things that do too!)
- The Zen of Cookie Monster
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Interesting Links for 27-12-2011
Dec. 27th, 2011 11:00 am- Some people have better sex lives than you
- Ten awesome Android homescreens
- The Lifecycle Of LiveJournal
- BT: The telco that stole Christmas
- Richard Branson: It's time to end the war on drugs
- 'Fatshion' blogs defiantly celebrate plus-size couture
- Microsoft no long allowing gun-like avatar items on XBox Live
- Man misses mouse and shoots roommate, revealing child rapist
- Five points about employment regulation everyone should know
- Prejudice is a fairly basic human trait (and requires work to minimise)
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