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• December 27th, 2021, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 27-12-2021

What if the Flu isn't "just the Flu?"

(tags:disease flu death )

Dealing with Apple if you have user generated content is a nightmare. (A Tumblr Developer speaks)

(tags:Tumblr Apple censorship OhForFucksSake )

What happened when an Orthodox Jewish congregation went to a gay bar to mourn Orlando

(tags:LGBT Jews death )

The most Christmassy of all jigsaws

(tags:puzzle Christmas vegetables )

If you work at a university then this will make you laugh *and* cry

(tags:university funny HumanResources )

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  apple, censorship, christmas, death, disease, flu, funny, humanresources, jews, lgbt, links, ohforfuckssake, puzzle, tumblr, university, vegetables

• June 10th, 2021, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 10-06-2021

Albania's first floating solar plant starts commercial operations

(tags:solarpower water Europe viaDanielDWilliam )

Which came first, bread or beer?

(tags:bread beer alcohol prehistory )

The UK is proud of its disregard for the rule of law

(tags:trade law Europe uk Doom )

Miraculous mosquito hack cuts dengue by 77%

(tags:disease mosquito GoodNews viaKirsty )

Annular Solar Eclipse on 10 June 2021 - will it be visible for you, and if so when?

(tags:eclipse )

A mystery cube, a secret identity, and a puzzle solved after 15 years

(tags:puzzle history )

US hits UK with formal diplomatic reprimand

(tags:UK USA NorthernIreland Europe )

No Worries if Not!

(tags:comic funny society email )

The Dead Sea is disappearing, leaving behind a landscape shattered by sinkholes

(tags:Israel water Doom )

The Sandman - Behind The Scenes Sneak Peek

(tags:tv sandman neilgaiman )

DNA Jumps Between Animal Species. No One Knows How Often.

(tags:viaNancyLebov genes animals fish )

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  alcohol, animals, beer, bread, comic, disease, doom, eclipse, email, europe, fish, funny, genes, goodnews, history, israel, law, links, mosquito, neilgaiman, northernireland, prehistory, puzzle, sandman, society, solarpower, trade, tv, uk, usa, viadanieldwilliam, viakirsty, vianancylebov, water

• November 7th, 2020, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 07-11-2020

PlayStation 5 review (looks like I'll be waiting a couple of years)

(tags:PlayStation consoles review )

UK COVID-19 Map (click the button under the zoom to see which areas are getting worse/better)

(tags:pandemic UK map )

The weird genomes of the goldfish

(tags:fish genetics )

Special Counsel Confirms Hatch Act Investigation of Trump Campaign

(tags:law USA politics )

John Finnemore has just solved "the world's most difficult literary puzzle."

(tags:puzzle books )

We're no longer allowed to beat either of our children.

(tags:children abuse law Scotland )

BBC correspondent: 'Long Covid has left me exhausted for seven months'

(tags:virus BBC Doom )

30-50% of prehistoric hunters in the Americas were female

(tags:prehistory gender women )

The unlikely link between TV show Supernatural and Georgia going Blue

(tags:USA politics TV funny )

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders voted in record numbers

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1324894295644659712.html
(tags:race voting usa )

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  abuse, bbc, books, children, consoles, doom, fish, funny, gender, genetics, law, links, map, pandemic, playstation, politics, prehistory, puzzle, race, review, scotland, tv, uk, usa, virus, voting, women

• September 5th, 2019, 12:01 pm

Interesting Links for 05-09-2019

Average speed cameras may be put on 25 Edinburgh roads

(tags:speed driving Edinburgh Scotland safety )

Thousands in UK born as result of extreme inbreeding (about 0.025%)

(tags:incest uk )

Giving People Simple "Moral Nudges" Encourages Them To Donate Much More To Charity

(tags:morality psychology charity money )

Active learning works best, even though students don't feel that way

(tags:education psychology )

How parliament works in the UK (the bit about the Queen's rabbit made me giggle a lot)

(tags:parliament UK satire )

Mental-health information sold to advertisers by websites

(tags:Web mentalhealth advertising )

Want your brain trained? Play Portal 2

(tags:learning psychology puzzle games portal )

40% of Americans think society should be burned to the ground to start over again

(tags:society usa )

Why phones that secretly listen to us are a myth

(tags:surveillance phones advertising )

Green-fingered couple devastated as new Fountainbridge curved glass office block will ruin their garden

(tags:Edinburgh light gardens OhForFucksSake viaSwampers )

Ex-Muslims of North America debuts billboards in Atlanta, Chicago, Houston

(tags:USA religion Islam society )

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  advertising, charity, driving, edinburgh, education, games, gardens, incest, islam, learning, light, links, mentalhealth, money, morality, ohforfuckssake, parliament, phones, portal, psychology, puzzle, religion, safety, satire, scotland, society, speed, surveillance, uk, usa, viaswampers, web

• September 25th, 2018, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 25-09-2018

A Self Solving Rubik's Cube.(Is there anything humanity is necessary for now? Surely that was the last thing?)

(tags: puzzle video viaSwampers )

Overweight pregnant women can safely cut calories, restrict weight gain

(tags: weight pregnancy health )

UK-EU flights could cease in event of no-deal Brexit, says government

(tags: uk europe airplanes doom )

Man paralysed from waist down makes history by walking again using mind-controlled implant to power his legs

(tags: cyborg )

What does Scotland think about gender recognition?

(tags: gender transgender lgbt scotland )

Labour Trade Secretary has described his own party's Brexit policy as 'Looney Tunes territory'

(tags: Labour UK europe )

The angry union boss, the archaic rules, the coffee breath: The inside story of the meeting that decided Labour's Brexit policy

(tags: Labour UK europe )

Bodyguard most watched BBC drama since 2008

(tags: tv uk bbc )

What does the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU or ECJ) do?

(tags: law europe )

Chrome's "Clear all Cookies" doesn't clear Google cookies. (Yet another reason to use Firefox)

(tags: chrome google surveillance )

The ‘Exit from Brexit’ illusion: why the Liberal Democrats cannot capture the 48%

(tags: libdem politics uk europe )

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  airplanes, bbc, chrome, cyborg, doom, europe, gender, google, health, labour, law, lgbt, libdem, links, politics, pregnancy, puzzle, scotland, surveillance, transgender, tv, uk, viaswampers, video, weight

• October 21st, 2016, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 21-10-2016

Video of (and inside) a fully self-driving Tesla

(tags: automation video cars transport )

First look at the new Nintendo console

(tags: nintendo games consoles video )

The Killing Joke Script

(tags: alanmoore writing batman comics )

How Hillary Clinton’s 3 debate performances left the Trump campaign in ruins

(tags: debate politics usa )

Clown porn searches are up over 200%

(tags: porn statistics viaBartCalendar )

Software architect is an illegal job title in the UK

(tags: law jobs language viaFanf )

The Architects Registration Board will sadly not prosecute software architects

(tags: names software architecture law viaFanf )

Wild animals with Halloween pumpkins

(tags: cute animals )

Deep-Dream like image synthesis - using a NSFW dataset

(tags: nsfw ai porn image )

Great Old Ones arranged from most to least fuckable.

(tags: cthulhu sex )

Beyond the Moomins: Tove Jansson's art gets major UK exhibition

(tags: art uk finland )

The Adventure Game: looking back at a brilliant kids' TV show

(tags: tv children puzzle games uk )

36 Brutally Honest And Sweary Things Noel Gallagher Has Actually Said

(tags: quotes music celebrity )

Pro-EU traitors have been undermining Parliament. Can a racist frog, a Ukip solicitor, and Louise Mensch save us?

(tags: UKIP twitter satire europe uk funny )

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  ai, alanmoore, animals, architecture, art, automation, batman, cars, celebrity, children, comics, consoles, cthulhu, cute, debate, europe, finland, funny, games, image, jobs, language, law, links, music, names, nintendo, nsfw, politics, porn, puzzle, quotes, satire, sex, software, statistics, transport, tv, twitter, uk, ukip, usa, viabartcalendar, viafanf, video, writing

• May 14th, 2016, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 14-05-2016

Tap is a wearable that turns any surface into a keyboard

(tags: Technology writing )

The last US woman born in the 19th Century has died

(tags: history death )

A Eukaryote without a Mitochondrial Organelle

(tags: biology evolution life bacteria )

How London became Britain's capital has just been revealed for the first time

(tags: london history uk )

Google's NHS deal does not have regulatory approval

(tags: google privacy nhs data UK )

MPs should be banned from filibustering private members bills, influential parliamentary committee says

(tags: parliament law government )

Couples Therapy. Not at all what I was expecting

(tags: relationships comics )

The Goat, the Wolf, and the Cabbage, OR: Poor Purchasing Decisions

(tags: puzzle history myths )

World of Warcraft designer discusses the difficulty of dealing with feedback

(tags: WorldOfWarcraft games design discussion )

What are the key bits of "theory" that every programmer should know?

(tags: programming design )

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  bacteria, biology, comics, data, death, design, discussion, evolution, games, google, government, history, law, life, links, london, myths, nhs, parliament, privacy, programming, puzzle, relationships, technology, uk, worldofwarcraft, writing

• January 21st, 2016, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 21-01-2016

• Sky will push all subscribers onto IPv6 network by summer 2016
  • ipv6 internet sky
• The ants on a stick puzzle
  • ants puzzle
• Whatever happened to television’s most famous couples? (No, really, you want to read this. All of it.)
  • tv scifi funny satire
• PETER JACKSON: 'THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR WILL HAVE TO BE 5 FILMS'
  • peterjackson funny movies
• Nature photographers being sat on by nature.
  • nature cute
• Star Wars Episode VIII release pushed back to December 15th, 2017
  • starwars
• The Star Wars Episode 7.5 Comic shows what really _should_ happen next
  • starwars comic funny
• Revealed: victims of UK's cold war torture camp
  • uk torture history
• Weekend binges just as bad for the gut as a regular junk food diet (in rats)
  • diet microbiome food
• In Praise of Blue Notes: What Makes Music Sad?
  • music emotion sadness
• Are mice actually useful when trying to produce medication for humans?
  • mice medicine research viaNancyLebov
• The Classic Cyberpunk Novel Altered Carbon Is Becoming A Netflix Series
  • scifi tv cyberpunk books
• “We Have a Serious Problem” (an explanation for Donald Trump)
  • politics usa viaTheWeaselKing funny
• The Illegitimacy of Aragorn's Claim to the Throne
  • lotr Tolkien royalty vianwhyte
• Now these are impressive cake decorating skills
  • cake video
• Is France's unloved AZERTY keyboard heading for the scrapheap?
  • keyboard France design fail
• UK set to spend £43bn a year less on health than European Neighbours
  • NHS money
• The US medical profession makes money from fear. Scummy drug "information" sites more than most.
  • drugs web usa OhForFucksSake
• Why is Leslie Nielsen STILL dead?
  • death news
• Ninth Planet May Exist Beyond Pluto
  • space solarsystem
• More than 400 children under the age of 10 have been referred to the government’s flagship de-radicalisation programme
  • uk terrorism children
• The science of internet trolls
  • troll psychology
• An excellent, in-depth response to Scalzi's "Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting That There Is."
  • feminism race JohnScalzi gaming

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  ants, books, cake, children, comic, cute, cyberpunk, death, design, diet, drugs, emotion, fail, feminism, food, france, funny, gaming, history, internet, ipv6, johnscalzi, keyboard, links, lotr, medicine, mice, microbiome, money, movies, music, nature, news, nhs, ohforfuckssake, peterjackson, politics, psychology, puzzle, race, research, royalty, sadness, satire, scifi, sky, solarsystem, space, starwars, terrorism, tolkien, torture, troll, tv, uk, usa, vianancylebov, vianwhyte, viatheweaselking, video, web

• June 25th, 2015, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 25-06-2015

• Some context on Tim Hunt's comments on women scientists
  • (tags: women science )
• The Internet That Was (and Still Could Be)
  • (tags: internet communication )
• Can you solve the Three Switches Problem?
  • (tags: puzzle physics )
• What's Really Warming the World?
  • (tags: globalwarming visualisation )
• The "Confederate Battle Flag" has nothing to do with heritage.
  • (tags: history usa flag racism )
• Community Moderation - you can't always halt a flamewar with one raised eyebrow (but it rarely hurts to try)
  • (tags: community discussion tools conversation )
• Why black Republicans are among the most progressive forces in American politics
  • (tags: politics racism usa viaAlexTFish )
• Netflix catches ABC and NBC. On track to overtake CBS and Fox next year
  • (tags: netflix vod TV )
• A Former Baltimore Cop Just Tweeted All the Horrible Shit He Saw on the Job
  • (tags: corruption police racism Twitter usa )

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  communication, community, conversation, corruption, discussion, flag, globalwarming, history, internet, links, netflix, physics, police, politics, puzzle, racism, science, tools, tv, twitter, usa, viaalextfish, visualisation, vod, women

• November 14th, 2014, 11:00 am

Interesting Links for 14-11-2014

• A German Cloud Company Is Offering Free Heat If You Have Room for Some of Its Servers
  (tags: heating computers Germany )
• EU scraps science advisor role – now are you happy, Greenpeace?
  (tags: science Europe greenpeace )
• What should happen to a released rapist?
  (tags: rape crime society jobs )
• “Too Many Cooks:” an analysis
  (tags: tv criticism )
• The presenter of Grand Designs wrote and episode based on the fans’ drinking game
  (tags: alcohol architecture tv )
• Have a fun puzzle game
  (tags: games puzzle logic )
• Government petition to replace the Benefit System with a Universal Basic Income (I'd love to see this debated)
  (tags: welfare petition GuaranteedIncome uk viaMorag )
• Smartphones versus DSLRs versus film: A look at how far we've come
  (tags: photography phones )

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  alcohol, architecture, computers, crime, criticism, europe, games, germany, greenpeace, guaranteedincome, heating, jobs, links, logic, petition, phones, photography, puzzle, rape, science, society, tv, uk, viamorag, welfare