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• April 20th, 2020, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 20-04-2020

How the government could have done more earlier to protect against Covid-19

(tags:Incompetence government UK pandemic )

How does coronavirus kill? Clinicians trace a ferocious rampage through the body

(tags:virus illness )

Coronavirus: UK Care home deaths are far higher than official figures

(tags:UK pandemic death statistics )

Hilariously bad wildlife photos

(tags:nature photos funny viaEatSoylentGreen )

Ten Types Of Authors Who Can Go Fuck Themselves

(tags:writing authors viaFJM )

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  authors, death, funny, government, illness, incompetence, links, nature, pandemic, photos, statistics, uk, viaeatsoylentgreen, viafjm, virus, writing

• June 14th, 2019, 01:49 pm

Interesting Links for 14-06-2019

Terrible erotica for millennials (the Twister one made me laugh)

(tags:funny erotica writing sex bad )

Radiohead Fans vs. Black-Market Sellers: How the OK Computer Tapes were leaked

(tags:music radiohead )

Most Comprehensive Review To Date Finds The Average Person's Reading Speed Is Slower Than Previously Thought (240 wpm rather than 300)

(tags:reading speed )

Confirmation that politics and discussion shows tell their guests to fight

(tags:argument tv OhForFucksSake radio politics Doom )

When the World's Most Famous Mystery Writer Vanished

(tags:mysteries authors relationships history )

Boris Johnson is heading for Downing Street, but he'll hate the experience as much as we will

(tags:Conservatives politics uk )

Adults Who Played Pokémon Extensively In Childhood Have A Pokémon-Sensitive Region In Their Visual Cortex

(tags:pokemon vision psychology )

A country of purists: the polling which lays bare the death of any compromise on Brexit

(tags:uk europe doom )

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  argument, authors, bad, conservatives, doom, erotica, europe, funny, history, links, music, mysteries, ohforfuckssake, pokemon, politics, psychology, radio, radiohead, reading, relationships, sex, speed, tv, uk, vision, writing

• November 6th, 2018, 11:00 am

Interesting Links for 06-11-2018

Discovered a lovely word today: “apricity.”

(tags: language sun temperature )

Irish government says Dominic Raab’s Brexit backstop plan not worth the paper it's written on

(tags: uk europe ireland NorthernIreland doom )

Iceland recognises Palestinian state

(tags: iceland palestine israel )

The Conservative Party will break Theresa May at the worst possible moment

(tags: Conservatives doom )

I can't tell if Stacksort is the worst programming thing ever, or the funniest.

(tags: stackexchange funny programming )

Why women receive less CPR from bystanders

(tags: health women society OhForFucksSake )

Labour will vote against a customs union - unless it's permanent

I've completely lost track of whether there's enough votes for _anything_ right now. Frankly, I'm not sure there is.
(tags: labour politics europe uk )

Google’s AI creates its own inhuman encryption

(tags: encryption google ai )

Prejudice against women in power is greater than we think

(tags: sexism society )

Voters' preexisting opinions shift to align with political party positions

(tags: politics OhForFucksSake )

Llama “nanobodies” might grant universal flu protection

(tags: llama flu disease medicine )

Air pollution linked to autism

(tags: autism pollution china )

Categorising male authors

(tags: men authors funny satire )

Right-Wing Social-Networking site Gab comes back after a week offline. Users blame the Jews.

(tags: socialnetworking politics freespeech racism )

Sci-Fi Writer Greg Egan and Anonymous Math Whiz Advance Permutation Problem

(tags: mathematics )

This is how psychotherapy for depression changes the brain

(tags: brain counselling neuroscience )

Ten changes to help save the planet

(tags: globalwarming advice )

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  advice, ai, authors, autism, brain, china, conservatives, counselling, disease, doom, encryption, europe, flu, freespeech, funny, globalwarming, google, health, iceland, ireland, israel, labour, language, links, llama, mathematics, medicine, men, neuroscience, northernireland, ohforfuckssake, palestine, politics, pollution, programming, racism, satire, sexism, socialnetworking, society, stackexchange, sun, temperature, uk, women

• February 8th, 2016, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 08-02-2016

• Meet the new generation of ‘plyscrapers’ (skyscrapers made of wood)
  • architecture wood design
• Album Colors Of The Year 2015
  • music design colour
• A short, entertaining, and very bright history of Japan (Anyone care to comment on its accuracy?)
  • video Japan history
• Who wants a 3D Printed Concrete Castle?
  • castle 3dprinting concrete
• Remembering Alexandre Dumas during Black History Month
  • authors history race France
• Cartoon Network cancelled Young Justice because too many women were watching
  • tv women OhForFucksSake
• Behold, the world's first makeup robot is here!
  • robots makeup video funny
• The English syllabus seems designed to wreck poetry for children
  • OhForFucksSake poetry education UK
• Continental makeover planned for Edinburgh’s George Street
  • Edinburgh
• Here’s What We’ll Do in Space by 2116
  • space thefuture
• MPs from seven parties unite for voting reform campaign
  • voting reform politics uk
• What's going on with the roadworks around (and demolition of) Edinburgh's St James Centre?
  • Edinburgh
• It turns out Netflix plays a bigger part in our relationships than we thought
  • tv relationships Netflix

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  3dprinting, architecture, authors, castle, colour, concrete, design, edinburgh, education, france, funny, history, japan, links, makeup, music, netflix, ohforfuckssake, poetry, politics, race, reform, relationships, robots, space, thefuture, tv, uk, video, voting, women, wood

• December 21st, 2015, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 21-12-2015

• ‘You Stink,’ He Explained - The unending deliciousness of literary rivalries
  • writing authors argument hate

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  argument, authors, hate, links, writing

• July 27th, 2015, 12:03 pm

Interesting Links for 27-07-2015

• A great interview with the creators of Rick And Morty
  • (tags: tv animation DanHarmon )
• Genderflip: What would book covers look like if you reversed the genders of their authors?
  • (tags: gender authors books publishing design )
• Some amazing body-paint cosplays (Venom is damned impressive)
  • (tags: nsfw bodyart cosplay )
• What's the right word for "Fear of finishing things"?
  • (tags: phobia language )
• A Three-Minute History of Global Warming
  • (tags: globalwarming history video )
• How security experts stay safe online (hint: It's not the same way most of us do)
  • (tags: security passwords software viaCipherGoth )
• Michael Moorcock: “I think Tolkien was a crypto-fascist”
  • (tags: Tolkien MichaelMoorcock interview )

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  animation, authors, bodyart, books, cosplay, danharmon, design, gender, globalwarming, history, interview, language, links, michaelmoorcock, nsfw, passwords, phobia, publishing, security, software, tolkien, tv, viaciphergoth, video

• October 13th, 2012, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 13-10-2012

• Parental leave change to give fathers year off work.
  (tags: paternity parenting work uk )
• New insight into celiac disease
  (tags: gluten food immune_system )
• immune dysfunction contributes to schizophrenia
  (tags: schizophrenia genetics immune_system )
• Anticipating feelings of guilt predicts ethical behavior
  (tags: guilt ethics behaviour )
• Can we build a more efficient airplane? Not really, says physics.
  (tags: science airplanes Technology )
• On depression, and having some control over your mood
  (tags: viaSkreidle self-control depression )
• A large number of authors tell you how to pronounce their names.
  (tags: authors writing names )
• What if Robert Heinlein just emailed you a bunch of story ideas?
  (tags: viaJohnCoxon ideas stories robertheinlein )
• When Gordon Met Chell - worth watching just for the voice acting alone.
  (tags: portal half-life video )

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  airplanes, authors, behaviour, depression, ethics, food, genetics, gluten, guilt, half-life, ideas, immune_system, links, names, parenting, paternity, portal, robertheinlein, schizophrenia, science, self-control, stories, technology, uk, viajohncoxon, viaskreidle, video, work, writing

• July 25th, 2012, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 25-07-2012

• Chick-Fil-A Debuts New Homophobic Sandwich
  (tags: LGBT TheOnion funny )
• Some advice for authors creating their website.
  (tags: web writing books authors )
• Cutting Through The Bullshit On The Dark Knight Shooting
  (tags: usa guns )
• Huge reservoir of resurgent viruses found...in bats.
  (tags: virus disease bats )
• If you thought that US Anti-Vaccination people were crazy, take a look at this Pakistani poster...
  (tags: viaPhilmoPhlegm vaccination )
• We now have a software emulation of an entire organism at the molecular level
  (tags: TheMatrix simulation ArtificialLife software )
• BABYMETAL - where JPop synths meet shouty Death Metal. More fun than a bucket of otters.
  (tags: video HeavyMetal music )
• About 9/10 of the way through "Audition" I looked round at the audience, and they all looked like this...
  (tags: scary movies dog funny )
• Lightning captured at 7,207 images per second
  (tags: video science lightning )
• Tony Blair would come across as intellectually inconsistent, if he didn't come across as intellectually blank
  (tags: politics religion tonyblair )
• Police failing to stop Female Genital Mutilation because of "human rights".
  (tags: fgm uk )
• Why don’t we drink other animals’ milk?
  (tags: milk food animals viaFanf )
• IPv4 addresses to run out in Europe this weekend.
  (tags: europe ipv4 internet )
• Mindfulness meditation reduces loneliness in older adults
  (tags: meditation mindfulness loneliness age )
• What happens when roommates or romantic partners have different levels of tolerance for housework left undone?
  (tags: homes tidiness relationships housework )
• Is the Academic Publishing Industry on the Verge of Disruption?
  (tags: academia publishing OpenAccess )
• Newspapers frequently feign shock at the blatantly obvious in order to suck readers in.
  (tags: media politics uk )
• The bots that help run Wikipedia
  (tags: wikipedia technology )
• Gay marriage to be introduced in Scotland. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
  (tags: scotland lgbt marriage epicwin )
• David Cameron pledges to legalise gay marriage by 2015.
  (tags: uk marriage lgbt davidcameron )

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  academia, age, animals, artificiallife, authors, bats, books, davidcameron, disease, dog, epicwin, europe, fgm, food, funny, guns, heavymetal, homes, housework, internet, ipv4, lgbt, lightning, links, loneliness, marriage, media, meditation, milk, mindfulness, movies, music, openaccess, politics, publishing, relationships, religion, scary, science, scotland, simulation, software, technology, thematrix, theonion, tidiness, tonyblair, uk, usa, vaccination, viafanf, viaphilmophlegm, video, virus, web, wikipedia, writing

• April 24th, 2012, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 24-04-2012

• Why the Super Mario Movie Sucked
  (tags: nintendo mario movies EpicFail )
• Only 22% of British people are horrifically racist, 25% just a bit racist when it comes to definition of "English"
  (tags: racism english uk society )
• Why is there a dead bird on Tonto's head? Johnny Depp explains
  (tags: johnnydepp movies weird )
• Details on the proposed House Of Lords changes
  (tags: houseoflords uk politics )
• My nightmare about falling, is pretty much like the 4th image here.
  (tags: falling nightmare animated_gif video )
• The cast of Mad Men go bowling. Featuring Wierd Al. Yes. Really.
  (tags: video bowling weird MadMen )
• What publishers do for authors
  (tags: editing authors writing publishing )
• Customer Reviews: Veet for Men Hair Removal Gel (Made me giggle)
  (tags: funny reviews hair men )
• Game of Thrones: How HBO and Showtime make money despite low ratings.
  (tags: gameofthrones HBO tv )
• John Slattery on playing Roger Sterling in the latest episode of Mad Men (S05E06)
  (tags: acting madmen )
• First Asteroid Mining Company launched. Has a few billion behind it.
  (tags: space mining thefuture )
• Facebook’s new moneymaking scheme - hide your posts and then charge you to make them visible again.
  (tags: facebook business )
• The woman who edited Nuts magazine
  (tags: women sex sexuality media uk )
• When I see emails like this, I get a massive rush of anticipatory schadenfreude.
  (tags: schadenfreude email EpicFail internet business )

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  acting, animated_gif, authors, bowling, business, editing, email, english, epicfail, facebook, falling, funny, gameofthrones, hair, hbo, houseoflords, internet, johnnydepp, links, madmen, mario, media, men, mining, movies, nightmare, nintendo, politics, publishing, racism, reviews, schadenfreude, sex, sexuality, society, space, thefuture, tv, uk, video, weird, women, writing

• January 23rd, 2012, 11:00 am

Interesting Links for 23-01-2012

• The Megaupload indictment, in detail; or, a crash course in the DMCA and why they're totally fucked
  (tags: copyright megaupload usa law )
• Ultra-Orthodox Jews and the Modesty Fight
  (tags: women gender judaism patriarchy )
• Weird things fans have said to authors
  (tags: fandom authors )
• The BBC covers polyamory
  (tags: marriage polyamory relationships )
• Has the Conservative's independent-minded MP put the party off open primaries?
  (tags: politics uk )
• France grapples with job conundrum
  (tags: france jobs welfare )
• The 5 Stupidest Habits You Develop Growing Up Poor
  (tags: poverity life habits food money )
• The three deadliest words in the world: "It's a girl."
  (tags: infanticide children murder women )
• A response to the US President's challenge on copyright and technology
  (tags: copyright politics technology )
• Facebook Gives Politico Deep Access to Users' Political Status Updates
  (tags: facebook privacy politics )
• SOPA, Internet regulation, and the economics of piracy
  Oddly, the numbers used by the movie/music execs to justify new laws don't add up.
  (tags: music copyright movies business )
• Magic Cards with Googly Eyes
  (tags: magic funny )
• Until 2009, the human clitoris was an absolute mystery
  (tags: clitoris women biology sex vagina )
• A french view of English and French parenting
  (tags: parenting children development france uk )
• Two undercover police officers had children with campaigners they spied on and then abandoned them
  (tags: police children uk )
• Is teaching women to code a feminist act? And does it matter?
  (tags: feminism development coding )
• Living life without ads (makes it much less stressful)
  (tags: advertising )
• Help! My children have grown up French!
  (tags: children france development )
• Why Some Men Are Playing Women, and Why Game Developers Should Take Note
  I played the female Shepherd in Mass Effect having heard the voice acting was better.
  (tags: gender games )
• An author ties herself in knots justifying lies.
  (tags: writing lies )
• MPAA boss calls for bribed politicians to stay bribed
  (tags: politics corruption usa mpaa oops )
• Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival 2012 - amazing photos!
  (tags: China photos winter snow )

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  advertising, authors, biology, business, children, china, clitoris, coding, copyright, corruption, development, facebook, fandom, feminism, food, france, funny, games, gender, habits, infanticide, jobs, judaism, law, lies, life, links, magic, marriage, megaupload, money, movies, mpaa, murder, music, oops, parenting, patriarchy, photos, police, politics, polyamory, poverity, privacy, relationships, sex, snow, technology, uk, usa, vagina, welfare, winter, women, writing