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• May 10th, 2019, 12:01 pm

Interesting Links for 10-05-2019

Labour's Customs Union Plan would cost us £80Bn per year

(tags:labour europe uk doom )

Jeremy Corbyn says second EU referendum could be 'healing process' for Britain's Brexit splits

(tags:labour uk europe hope )

All Chromebooks will also be Linux laptops going forward

(tags:technology computers linux google )

Drones used missiles with knife warhead to take out single terrorist targets

(tags:weaponry drone )

Edinburgh 2029:Tram loop, car ban and pedestrian zones part of 10-year city vision

(tags:Edinburgh transport trams )

The victim of an armed robbery asks for justice

(tags:crime usa rehabilitation )

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  computers, crime, doom, drone, edinburgh, europe, google, hope, labour, links, linux, rehabilitation, technology, trams, transport, uk, usa, weaponry

• April 17th, 2015, 07:00 pm

Interesting Links for 17-04-2015

• Success meme kid raises cash for dad's kidney transplant
  Of course, with a decent healthcare system, he wouldn't have to...
  (tags: healthcare usa meme )
• What I've Learned About Heterosexual Female Desire From Decades Of Reading
  (tags: Women books society desire relationships romance )
• Robot lawnmowers vs Space telescopes - Fight!
  (tags: space technology radio viaTheFerrett robots )
• Violent thug “too dangerous for prison” given suspended sentence
  (tags: law crime rehabilitation viaJennieRigg )
• How to Survive the UK General Election 2015: A Guide for First-Time Voters
  (tags: voting elections uk politics )
• Highlights of the Lib Dem Manifesto
  (tags: libdem )
• A pun that works in both English and Spanish
  (tags: pun funny spain English )
• Cow Milk Without the Cow Is Coming to Change Food Forever
  (tags: food milk genetics bioengineering thefuture )
• 23 facts about time (I've seen most of them before, but a sense of perspective never hurt anyone)
  (tags: time facts )
• Turns out one of my friends is a freeloading terrorist out to steal our jobs!
  (tags: immigration )
• There goes the BBC with horribly misleading graphs about drug safety.
  (tags: drugs visualisation fail bbc )

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  bbc, bioengineering, books, crime, desire, drugs, elections, english, facts, fail, food, funny, genetics, healthcare, immigration, law, libdem, links, meme, milk, politics, pun, radio, rehabilitation, relationships, robots, romance, society, space, spain, technology, thefuture, time, uk, usa, viajennierigg, viatheferrett, visualisation, voting, women

• September 10th, 2013, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 10-09-2013

• How many languages can you recognise from "Hello World"? (I scored a dismal 400 points)
  (tags: languages programming )
• Hilarious, Ingenious Emoticons From a Wizard of Net Art
  (tags: emoticons )
• Trying to be happier really can work
  (tags: happiness )
• Iowa law allows gun permits for the blind
  (tags: guns blindness usa )
• With a Burst of Color, Turkey's Public Walkways Become a Focus of Quiet Protest
  (tags: colour turkey )
• Scientists calculate the energy required to store wind and solar power on the grid
  (tags: renewables electricity )
• Ancient golden treasure found at foot of Temple Mount (Treasure Type K, by the looks of things)
  (tags: archeology israel )
• The 1970s Cold War Era Home built 26 Feet Underground (Blast From The Past!)
  (tags: LasVegas architecture )
• DIY Game of Thrones Red Wedding Costumes [Spoiler Alert]
  (tags: costumes gameofthrones halloween )
• There are 800-foot-high waves in the deep ocean.
  (tags: ocean )
• Testicle size linked to how much of a role fathers play in their children's life
  (tags: testosterone children parenting )
• How the cult of shareholder value wrecked American business
  (tags: business )
• When you're accused of computer crime by the least competent police ever.
  (tags: computers police crime )
• Small testicles are much easier to live with, say men
  (tags: testosterone funny men )
• Britons more liberal, cynical and individual than 30 years ago
  (tags: politics uk society lgbt )
• What it's like trying to change your mugger's life
  (tags: crime rehabilitation )
• I hadn't realised that compilers where quite this smart.
  (tags: computers programming compiler )

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  archeology, architecture, blindness, business, children, colour, compiler, computers, costumes, crime, electricity, emoticons, funny, gameofthrones, guns, halloween, happiness, israel, languages, lasvegas, lgbt, links, men, ocean, parenting, police, politics, programming, rehabilitation, renewables, society, testosterone, turkey, uk, usa

• September 1st, 2013, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 01-09-2013

• Military Strikes Are An Extremely Cheap Way To Help Foreigners
  (tags: aid charity syria military )
• A fantastic response to the recent Watterson money/art comic.
  (tags: art money )
• Men fighting The Patriarchy
  (tags: funny tumblr patriarchy )
• On Marvel Comics, Movies, and Writing Vulnerable Characters
  (tags: marvel movies writing comics Character )
• Linux kernel swear counts
  (tags: swearing linux )
• These amazing photos are the winners of the Red Bull Illume Photo Contest 2013
  (tags: photos )
• Surprise! It looks like Google’s been planning a smartwatch for quite a while
  (tags: technology google watches )
• Tor's ebook typesetting is appalling (with example of @KariSperring )
  (tags: ebooks publishing )
• Wow. Labour whip's physical bulling of MPs is appalling.
  (tags: politics uk assault labour )
• Collaborating with a 4-year Old (to make awesome art)
  (tags: art children )
• This is the best explanation I've seen of the situation in Syria
  (tags: syria )
• Japanese Velociraptor Prank Is The King Of Pranks
  (tags: funny dinosaurs video )
• A properly untranslateable word
  (tags: translation language viafanf )
• Things Your Yoga Teacher is Dying to Tell You (But Probably Won't).
  (tags: life teaching yoga )
• The lead writer of Borderlands 2 talks about inclusivity and computer games
  (tags: games diversity people )
• Loki: Bringing people together.
  (tags: relationships comics geekery )
• Making friends with a paedophile: 'We can't kill him, so we help him not to do it again'
  (tags: uk canada Child_abuse paedophilia rehabilitation )

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  aid, art, assault, canada, character, charity, child_abuse, children, comics, dinosaurs, diversity, ebooks, funny, games, geekery, google, labour, language, life, links, linux, marvel, military, money, movies, paedophilia, patriarchy, people, photos, politics, publishing, rehabilitation, relationships, swearing, syria, teaching, technology, translation, tumblr, uk, viafanf, video, watches, writing, yoga

• August 30th, 2013, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 30-08-2013

• The strange death of the British middle class
  (tags: uk class )
• We seem to be running out of children's presenters from my youth who didn't abuse children.
  (tags: tv Child_abuse children )
• How do you say not to sex without offending your partner
  (tags: sex )
• Assad lays out the various options open to America. None of them look good
  (tags: syria satire )
• No federal challenge to pot legalization in 2 states
  (tags: drugs usa legalisation )
• Poverty causes a 13-point drop in IQ, purely due to stress.
  (tags: concentration poverty stress intelligence )
• KnobFeel (totally worksafe)
  (tags: ux funny review )
• All Legal Same-Sex Marriages Will Be Recognized For US Federal Tax Purposes
  (tags: tax usa lgbt )
• THIS is why hung parliaments are a good thing, and why the Lib Dems are important
  (tags: politics libdem syria )
• Why electrons pass through very tiny wires less smoothly than expected: Light shed on 20-year-old mystery
  (tags: physics )
• Judge posts about his own terrible sentencing instincts - gets response from man he jailed (see comments)
  (tags: law prison usa rehabilitation )
• Michael Gove, why do you want to omit 'sexual health' from the national curriculum?
  (tags: uk sex education )

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  child_abuse, children, class, concentration, drugs, education, funny, intelligence, law, legalisation, lgbt, libdem, links, physics, politics, poverty, prison, rehabilitation, review, satire, sex, stress, syria, tax, tv, uk, usa, ux

• February 27th, 2013, 11:00 am

Interesting Links for 27-02-2013

• A man tried to rob a bank after paying $500 to a wizard to make him invisible
  (tags: crime funny epicfail )
• How the Oscars proved Hollywood is killing the VFX industry
  (tags: specialeffects cgi movies business )
• How to write dates.
  (tags: date )
• The Norwegian prison where inmates are treated like people (and thus has a very low reoffending rate)
  (tags: prison rehabilitation norway )
• Why is Denmark is so happy?
  (tags: society welfare happiness denmark )
• Labour to join Tories in backing a £25bn deal to renew Trident fleet
  (tags: nuclearweapons labour )
• Making legal music access easier improves sales (Shocking, I know)
  (tags: music viafanf )
• Edinburgh Council are having their five-yearly transport consultation. Have your say (if you live in Edinburgh).
  (tags: edinburgh transport )

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  business, cgi, crime, date, denmark, edinburgh, epicfail, funny, happiness, labour, links, movies, music, norway, nuclearweapons, prison, rehabilitation, society, specialeffects, transport, viafanf, welfare

• December 10th, 2012, 11:00 am

Interesting Links for 10-12-2012

• The world is _amazing_
  (tags: thefuture computers Technology )
• The Most Dangerous Equation [pdf]
  (tags: statistics )
• If you don't want people to die for their cause you need to give them a reason to live.
  (tags: rehabilitation family relationships love life terrorism viaFanf )
• How Harmonix put Gangnam Style into Dance Central 3.
  (tags: games music motioncapture )
• The North Star is 100 light years closer than it was in the 1990s. Aieeee!
  (tags: viaTheWeaselKing astronomy )
• The obsessives behind underground restaurants. Damned impressive.
  (tags: cooking restaurant food )
• Do we actually want to rid Europe of its sex workers?
  (tags: prostitution )
• The UK should decriminalise prostitution – it has worked in New Zealand
  (tags: legalisation newzealand prostitution )
• Scotland must give up the pound to beat poverty. (Bleeding obvious if you ask me.)
  (tags: finance economics independence scotland uk )
• Remembering Patrick Moore - a rather nice personal story
  (tags: astronomy )
• US and UK agree safer banks plan
  (tags: banks banking regulation )

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  astronomy, banking, banks, computers, cooking, economics, family, finance, food, games, independence, legalisation, life, links, love, motioncapture, music, newzealand, prostitution, regulation, rehabilitation, relationships, restaurant, scotland, statistics, technology, terrorism, thefuture, uk, viafanf, viatheweaselking

• November 21st, 2011, 11:00 am

Interesting Links for 21-11-2011

• OWS in an alternate universe
  (tags: occupy watchmen comics funny )
• The co-op business model: share whatever you've got
  (tags: sharing Business advice )
• A very nice visualisation of a Bach cello piece. Click the "?" in the corner for an explanation
  (tags: visualization bach music maths )
• Oddly, Texas can teach the UK a thing or two on criminal justice
  (tags: texas crime rehabilitation )
• Go on tour? How old fashioned! Mariah Carey broadcasts holograms instead.
  (tags: MariahCarey music technology )
• It looks like setting targets for schools and hospitals is actually a good thing
  (tags: measurement targets education healthcare uk politics )
• What happens when you crack an egg 100ft under water?
  (tags: diving scuba eggs video )
• The longest, strangest forgery spree the American art world has known
  (tags: art forgery usa weird )
• Walking through doorways causes forgetting
  (tags: doors architecture memory psychology )
• Self-Help for Nerds. (Cue numerous disagreeing comments over the definitions of "nerd", "geek" and "dork")
  (tags: geek advice )
• Amazon leaves girl gamers out in the cold. (Message to marketing departments - please _think_)
  (tags: amazon gaming women )
• Brent Spiner on perceptions of Star Trek
  (tags: StarTrek acting BrentSpiner )
• Interesting stuff on The Great Dying, when volcanos nearly wiped out all life on Earth.
  (tags: life earth volcano geology )

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  acting, advice, amazon, architecture, art, bach, brentspiner, business, comics, crime, diving, doors, earth, education, eggs, forgery, funny, gaming, geek, geology, healthcare, life, links, mariahcarey, maths, measurement, memory, music, occupy, politics, psychology, rehabilitation, scuba, sharing, startrek, targets, technology, texas, uk, usa, video, visualization, volcano, watchmen, weird, women