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• February 21st, 2017, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 21-02-2017

The Programming Interview from Hell (So glad I haven't had to interview for 12 years)

(tags: interview jobs work )

Oppenheimer and the atom bomb: The story behind 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds'

(tags: quotes nuclearweapons history india religion )

Build an Amazing (Free) Markdown Editor Using Visual Studio Code and Pandoc

(tags: text writing )

"I Discuss Things With My Husband, But I Don't Ask For Permission"

(tags: relationships )

Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?

(tags: men leadership fail women management )

This video helped me understand what fractional dimensions are (and thus, fractals)

(tags: fractals mathematics video viaSwampers )

Fuckers: A scientific inquiry

(tags: science evil comics satire )

Mismatch between the way our senses evolved and modern world is making us ill

#modernlifeisrubbish
(tags: life Technology world )

4chan: How a group who define themselves by their powerlessness are the skeleton key to the rise of Trump

(tags: viaCahwyguy politics economics society power men patriarchy )

Daily Mail exactly the same in parallel universe where Nazis won

(tags: DailyMail satire scifi )

The power and danger of women who take up space.

(tags: women fat society )

All you need to know how to influence the EU in one easy chart

(tags: europe politics viaFanf )

Pssst, wanna see some sleeping puppies?

(tags: dogs cute )

Fresh Guacamole - an Oscar-nominated (very) short film

(tags: video food funny )

Single women hide their ambtion if others can see them.

(tags: feminism women jobs society )

"I’m a commis in a Chinese restaurant kitchen, this is what I do"

(tags: food china cooking )

Some people wanted to know what my most-used tags are...

(tags: links categorisaton )

The Moon: A propaganda hoax!

(tags: moon conspiracy satire funny )

A lovely Calvin and Hobbes sketch - in 3D

(tags: 3d comics art )

An actual Calvin & Hobbes comic recreated in 3D

(tags: comic 3d )

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  3d, art, categorisaton, china, comic, comics, conspiracy, cooking, cute, dailymail, dogs, economics, europe, evil, fail, fat, feminism, food, fractals, funny, history, india, interview, jobs, leadership, life, links, management, mathematics, men, moon, nuclearweapons, patriarchy, politics, power, quotes, relationships, religion, satire, science, scifi, society, technology, text, viacahwyguy, viafanf, viaswampers, video, women, work, world, writing

• January 2nd, 2017, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 02-01-2017

The farmer who built her own broadband

(tags: farming broadband uk viaCahwyguy )

The New Year and the Bend of the Arc of the Moral Universe

(tags: morality advice )

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  advice, broadband, farming, links, morality, uk, viacahwyguy

• June 29th, 2016, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 29-06-2016

AI fighter pilot wins in combat simulation

(tags: ai airplanes war military )

Who governs Britain? This is the UK's new 10-party system

(tags: politics europe uk )

Majority of new Labour members support deselecting MPs who undermine Jeremy Corbyn

(tags: labour politics uk )

Jeremy Corbyn loses 'no confidence' vote among Labour MPs by 172 to 40

(tags: labour politics uk )

Scotland's First Minister sets up expert group to advise on aftermath of Brexit vote

(tags: scotland uk europe )

Eggs Don't Cause Heart Attacks -- Sugar Does

(tags: food sugar heart health )

Tetris gets trilogy as story 'too big' to fit into single film

(tags: tetris EpicWTF movies games )

Less Than 1000 Brits Googled "What is the EU?" After Referendum

(tags: google europe uk myths referendum )

US border authority seeks travellers' social media details

(tags: usa immigration travel socialmedia OhForFucksSake )

Exercise Releases Brain-Healthy Protein

(tags: exercise health brain )

13 Questions to Ask Before Getting Married

(tags: marriage relationships )

All the important stuff that happens offscreen in Independence Day: Resurgence

Seriously, do people have to actively work at making films this badly?
(tags: movies fail )

Study shows Millennial Men do not think of women as their equals

(tags: men feminism usa misogyny )

Chemists say they finally know how to make soft, delicious gluten-free bread

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
(tags: gluten food viaCahwyguy )

Amazing closeups of a Luna Moth's wing

(tags: photos beautiful animals )

The classic meme returns: Brexit vs Downfall!

(tags: video uk europe referendum politics funny )

UK in breach of international human rights

(tags: humanrights austerity welfare uk )

Inside a robot-run warehouse

(tags: robots business jobs china )

The key lesson of Brexit is that globalisation must work for all of Britain

Gordon Brown speaking a huge amount of good sense.
(tags: politics globalization labour uk economics europe scotland )

The Languages Which Almost Became CSS

(tags: web history browser )

Brexit Buzzword Bingo - Can you collect the set?

(tags: uk europe funny )

Making Sense of Brexit – the data you need to analyse

(tags: europe uk data )

Open plan offices are basically terrible in every way

(tags: office work fail )

SNP bids to replace Labour as official Commons opposition

(tags: snp labour funny politics uk scotland )

Suffering Vs. Oblivion

(tags: morality death happiness )

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  ai, airplanes, animals, austerity, beautiful, brain, browser, business, china, data, death, economics, epicwtf, europe, exercise, fail, feminism, food, funny, games, globalization, gluten, google, happiness, health, heart, history, humanrights, immigration, jobs, labour, links, marriage, men, military, misogyny, morality, movies, myths, office, ohforfuckssake, photos, politics, referendum, relationships, robots, scotland, snp, socialmedia, sugar, tetris, travel, uk, usa, viacahwyguy, video, war, web, welfare, work

• June 11th, 2016, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 11-06-2016

Scottish Episcopal Church takes gay marriage step

(tags: religion equality marriage lgbt )

Scientists Now Know How Many Trees You Need to See to Relax

(tags: trees nature stress anxiety psychology viaSwampers )

Movie written by AI algorithm turns out to be hilarious and intense

Reminds me of the bad lip-reading videos actually. Or the fun I used to have with "Babble" which produced similarly cut-up predictive text.
(tags: movie ai funny acting writing )

Hillary Clinton's Foreign Policy: Is She Really Hawkish?

(tags: politics usa viaCahwyguy )

10 Mind Blowing Sex Tips

(tags: sex advice )

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  acting, advice, ai, anxiety, equality, funny, lgbt, links, marriage, movie, nature, politics, psychology, religion, sex, stress, trees, usa, viacahwyguy, viaswampers, writing

• November 29th, 2015, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 29-11-2015

• What do the British people really think about bombing Syria?
  • Syria polls
• UK ISP boss points out massive technical flaws in Investigatory Powers Bill
  • surveillance UK internet
• Turning Logan's Run Into The Next Hunger Games Is a Really Silly Idea
  • movies age scifi
• Finally, someone comes up with decent names for paint colours
  • colour painting names funny
• 13 Tips on How To Speak While Female
  • women conversation satire
• The template used to produce music reviews (literally)
  • music review OhForFucksSake
• Every female meteorologist is currently wearing the same dress on TV
  • weather tv clothing viaCahwyguy
• Storyteller Tools - now approved by Hannu Rajaniemi and Ken MacLeod
  • stories planning writing
• Sisyphus Lego Kinetic Sculpture
  • Lego sculpture animation
• 'Easy' Cooking Isn't Easy
  • cooking
• Belgian Physicists Calculate that Everyone Is Lying About the Downed Russian Jet
  • Russia turkey physics
• The Library of Babel
  • writing library philosophy odd viajohnbobshaun
• Email spam has fallen to a 10-year low and is unlikely to make a comeback
  • spam email vianwhyte
• Australian Chicken Treat Restaurant Uses Hen to Tweet
  • chicken Twitter marketing viaJennieRigg
• CLEARLY THE FINEST MUSICAL INSTRUMENT OF ALL TIME
  • (Alternate suggestions gratefully accepted)
  • music video
• Todd Klein has gorgeous posters on sale
  • alanmoore NeilGaiman posters design
• What really happened on Thanksgiving (a fascinating piece of complex history)
  • usa history
• Why U.S. "Dolphin-Safe" Tuna Isn't
  • dolphins viaSteer

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  age, alanmoore, animation, chicken, clothing, colour, conversation, cooking, design, dolphins, email, funny, history, internet, lego, library, links, marketing, movies, music, names, neilgaiman, odd, ohforfuckssake, painting, philosophy, physics, planning, polls, posters, review, russia, satire, scifi, sculpture, spam, stories, surveillance, syria, turkey, tv, twitter, uk, usa, viacahwyguy, viajennierigg, viajohnbobshaun, vianwhyte, viasteer, video, weather, women, writing

• January 4th, 2015, 11:00 am

Interesting Links for 04-01-2015

• Slaves endure 'a living hell' on remote South Korean islands
  (tags: korea slavery )
• Kafka’s Joke Book.
  (tags: funny )
• Ten things an Irish woman could not do in 1970
  (tags: feminism women ireland )
• Eleven things women in Saudi Arabia can't do
  (tags: women saudiarabia )
• Today in robotentacle news - a surgical tentacle tying knots, and a laser snake.
  (tags: lasers robots snake surgery healthcare )
• How to stop autoplay videos
  (tags: videos web browser viaCahwyguy )
• Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old immune system
  (tags: food eating immune_system )

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  browser, eating, feminism, food, funny, healthcare, immune_system, ireland, korea, lasers, links, robots, saudiarabia, slavery, snake, surgery, viacahwyguy, videos, web, women

• May 30th, 2014, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 30-05-2014

• Gay Dads' Brain Activity Pattern Resembles Both New Mothers And Fathers, Study Finds
  (tags: LGBT parenting brains )
• BBC Skylon spaceplane economics stack up
  (tags: space Europe )
• New report backs Scottish membership of the EU
  (tags: europe scotland )
• Scientists Studied What Psychedelics Do to the Brain, and It's Not What You've Been Told
  (tags: psychology drugs psychedelics )
• LiveJournal revives the "Feedback" community, asks for users opinions. *gasp*
  (tags: livejournal )
• Publishing books without DRM continues to have no negative consequences
  (tags: drm publishing books viasupergee )
• Puppy training advice (also applies to children)
  (tags: dogs training viaSkreidle )
• The drug you should be giving up
  (tags: viaCipherGoth media )
• The fiction of Ted Chiang: Why you should read his stories
  (tags: writing shortstory scifi )
• Could 'Community' be revived on Hulu?
  (tags: tv community streaming )
• Robert Morse on His Big ‘Mad Men’ Number (spoilers if you're not up to date)
  (tags: madmen )
• Disney’s ‘Game of Thrones'
  (tags: gameofthrones Disney )
• On asexuality oppression
  (tags: asexual )
• If Compulsory Voting Is The Answer, You’re Asking The Wrong Question
  (tags: voting )
• Utah high schoolers furious after their yearbook photos are photoshopped to add more clothes (all women, obviously)
  (tags: usa school clothing women )
• A study of sexism in Dr Who - with Moffat vs RTD figures!
  (tags: drwho sexism )
• Under Ex-Googler CEO, LiveJournal Gets A Revamp, Promises New Services, Apps And More In 2014
  via Gonzo21
  (tags: livejournal )
• Mario Kart 8 vs Mario Kart 64
  (tags: mario games nintendo )
• Think You're Sensitive To Gluten? A Different Carb In Wheat May Be The Real Culprit
  (tags: health gluten wheat food diet viaCahwyguy )
• The brain's reaction to male odor shifts at puberty in children with gender dysphoria
  (tags: gender transgender pheremones puberty )
• Labour will be unable to reverse government cuts
  (tags: austerity uk Labour )
• Elon Musk unveils Space X's Reusable Dragon V2 spacecraft
  (tags: space spaceflight )
• Mother wants answers after teenage daughter's armpits were shaved by teacher (I would too!)
  (tags: women school hair )
• Britain is still feasting on credit – and the next crunch will hit in 2016
  (tags: UK economics credit )
• Would Marvel Really Cancel Fantastic Four To Snub Fox?
  (tags: comics marvel movies )
• Drugs and prostitution add £10bn a year to UK economy
  (tags: uk economy drugs prostitution )
• Anti-Independence advert pulled over fraudulent child hospital claim
  (tags: hospital independence )
• An open letter to all my male friends
  (tags: sexism women harassment )
• Lessons From a Day Spent With the UCSB Shooter's Awful Friends (Warning: horrible)
  (tags: misogyny assault women )

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  asexual, assault, austerity, books, brains, clothing, comics, community, credit, diet, disney, dogs, drm, drugs, drwho, economics, economy, europe, food, gameofthrones, games, gender, gluten, hair, harassment, health, hospital, independence, labour, lgbt, links, livejournal, madmen, mario, marvel, media, misogyny, movies, nintendo, parenting, pheremones, prostitution, psychedelics, psychology, puberty, publishing, school, scifi, scotland, sexism, shortstory, space, spaceflight, streaming, training, transgender, tv, uk, usa, viacahwyguy, viaciphergoth, viaskreidle, viasupergee, voting, wheat, women, writing

• December 29th, 2013, 11:00 am

Interesting Links for 29-12-2013

• One unquestioned benefit of books, and the hardware to solve it
  (tags: books ebooks funny )
• Nice service to replace animated GIFs with HTML5 Video
  (tags: video html5 animated_gif )
• Sorry, Astronauts: It's Impossible to Fry Food in Zero G
  I'm not going if I can't have my deep-fried Mars Bar
  (tags: space food viaCahwyguy )
• 9 Lies About Fat That Destroyed The World's Health
  (tags: diet food health fat viaCahwyguy )
• Help push Female Genital Mutilation back up the political agenda
  (tags: fgm uk politics )
• 2013 - The Year We Broke the Internet
  (tags: writing media journalism viral newspapers )

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  animated_gif, books, diet, ebooks, fat, fgm, food, funny, health, html5, journalism, links, media, newspapers, politics, space, uk, viacahwyguy, video, viral, writing

• August 4th, 2013, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 04-08-2013

• Could Spider-Man be black?
  (tags: tv spiderman comics )
• What's the difference between r/creepshots and The Telegraph?
  (tags: photographs nudity )
• Some excellent writing advice by Chuck Palahniuk
  (tags: writing )
• A brilliant rant against modern society that I almost entirely disagree with
  (tags: society rant )
• Liverpool FC Threaten To Ban Fans Who Say 'Play Like A Girl'
  (tags: society language women )
• Behold! The Eye of Sauron appears in London ...
  (tags: lotr moon london architecture )
• The bikes are taking over London. Hurrah
  (tags: bicycles uk london )
• When unhappy customers of a real airline tweet a spoof account to complain, hilarity ensues.
  (tags: twitter airlines funny satire )
• The Legend of The Oregon Trail - the history of one of the oldest and most popular educational games ever
  (tags: history games viaCahwyguy education )

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  airlines, architecture, bicycles, comics, education, funny, games, history, language, links, london, lotr, moon, nudity, photographs, rant, satire, society, spiderman, tv, twitter, uk, viacahwyguy, women, writing

• July 6th, 2013, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 06-07-2013

• Political parties shelve funding reform talks
  (tags: politics uk money )
• If Barbie had an average body
  (tags: viaCahwyguy toys barbie bodies women )
• Iain Banks gets an asteroid named after him!
  (tags: asteroids space IainBanks )
• Rocket Science: Not actually that hard
  (tags: spaceflight rockets space )
• Windows 95 Tips, Tricks, and Tweaks - simultaneously creepy and hilarious!
  (tags: scary funny windows )
• Tram testing starts soon (I may even be able to get one home after Christmas!)
  (tags: trams edinburgh )
• Grilling Over Charcoal Is Objectively, Scientifically Better Than Grilling Over Gas
  (tags: food bacon cooking )
• Unique epigenomic code identified during human brain development
  (tags: genetics epigenetics children brains )
• The 19-year-old boy jailed for a sarcastic joke.
  (tags: law freespeech usa )
• If Films Were Reviewed Like Video Games
  (tags: games reviews movies )
• Fifteen-Year-Old Creates Flashlight Powered By Body Heat
  (tags: technology viaPatrickHadfield heat light )
• Hint: If you install a panic alarm in your office building, tell your staff not to push it to see what it does.
  (tags: guns police usa )
• BRICK[bricksmash]SMASH - Recursive Breakout FTW!
  (tags: games awesome viajohnbobshaun recursion )
• Important role of insulin in making breast milk identified
  (tags: insulin milk )

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  asteroids, awesome, bacon, barbie, bodies, brains, children, cooking, edinburgh, epigenetics, food, freespeech, funny, games, genetics, guns, heat, iainbanks, insulin, law, light, links, milk, money, movies, police, politics, recursion, reviews, rockets, scary, space, spaceflight, technology, toys, trams, uk, usa, viacahwyguy, viajohnbobshaun, viapatrickhadfield, windows, women