Interesting Links for 02-07-2015
- BBC Subtitle Writer's Innovative Transcription of Kanye's Glastonbury Set
'[RAPS] Something, something, something… Oh God, when does this finish, Bev?!?'
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- bbc,
- gaming,
- links,
- oops,
- parody,
- politics,
- silly,
- the-daily-mash,
- ukip,
- warhamster,
- westminster
Interesting Links for 15-05-2015
- Shock and horror as BBC reporter accurately describes Nigel Farage
- Human Rights Act to be replaced with Warhammer rulebook
"If you are claiming a right to privacy, for example, we roll two twenty-sided dice to determine your score, take away any debuffs – low income, being foreign – and measure it against the government’s own total."
Interesting Links for 09-09-2014
- Duchess of Cambridge pregnant: TUC leader Frances O’Grady speech on class system cut off by royal baby newsflash - UK Politics - UK - The Independent
“Good luck to the Duchess of Cambridge, but she would still have been pregnant when Frances finished speaking.”
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Interesting Links for 10-12-2013
- Nobel winner declares boycott of top science journals
- Metal 3D printing and six key shifts in the 'second industrial revolution'
'From a 3D printer that you can build from stuff lying around the house to 3D printing steel, food or plastic in the home'
- Growing Up Unvaccinated - Voices for Vaccines
Someone growing up on a super-healthy diet/lifestyle, but still getting lots of vaccinateable diseases
- BBC disciplines Graham Norton for wearing AIDS awareness ribbon on chat show · PinkNews.co.uk
Do you make a list of approved symbols? Essentially the question is where do you draw the line on what stuff presenters are allowed to wear and thus show their support (and arguably plug) - e.g. political party rosettes during an election.
- Can young people influence Government policy by voting? | ampp3d
Politicians woo the grey vote, because it makes a difference. They shit on the young people, because they don't vote.
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Interesting Links for 02-09-2013
- BBC News - One-in-four prison inmates 'in overcrowded cells'
'on a typical day 835 prisoners shared a cell designed for one person, which the charity also pointed out contain an open toilet.' 'about 19,140 inmates on average were made to share a cell designed for one person.' Either it's a very large cell, or there's some serious compression going on…
- Game of Lulz
'The collision knocked him off his feet, and he landed on his George R.R. Martin' The joy of formatting issues.
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Interesting Links for 19-08-2013
- Doctor Who Phrases from your waiter; how to get more tips (and sometimes confuse)
- Ubuntu sets crowdfund pledge record for Edge smartphone
Dear BBC; try and get someone who understands crowdfunding to write about it? 'Canonical would have to return all the money if it does not reach the target.' — no it wouldn't, as it doesn't *get* the cash unless it reaches the goal.
- Mexico politician: Gays shouldn’t marry ‘as they don’t face each other during sex’ | Gay Star News
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- amusing,
- bbc,
- buzzfeed,
- choice,
- crime,
- culture,
- design,
- discrimination,
- forced marriage,
- france,
- freedom,
- history,
- interesting,
- law,
- links,
- maps,
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- news,
- parody,
- politics,
- porn,
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- rights,
- sex,
- silly,
- statistics,
- terrorism,
- the onion,
- the world,
- travel,
- war,
- women,
- wtf
Interesting Links for 16-08-2013
- www.themediablog.co.uk
Spare a thought for academic Dr Jude Roberts who admitted on Newsnight on Wednesday night that she uses porn. A minute or so later the caption writers at the BBC had made the necessary changes to her billing and stripped her of her PhD.
- 4 Copy Editors Killed In Ongoing AP Style, Chicago Manual Gang Violence | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
''graffiti tags in which the word “anti-social” had been corrected to read 'antisocial.''
- 27 Pictures That Will Change The Way You Look At The World
Ahh, data :)
- 'I said to Klaus Barbie: I want people to see your human side' | World news | The Guardian
'French lawyer Jacques Vergès has represented some of the 20th century's most notorious criminals.'
- Women who fear being forced to marry abroad told to hide spoon in underwear | World news | The Guardian
Charity advises women and young girls to set off airport metal detectors to give them more time to seek help from authorities
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- bbc,
- braaaaaains,
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- discrimination,
- email,
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- google,
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- law,
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- porn,
- posttofacebook,
- privacy,
- psychology,
- sex,
- technology,
- the other,
- violence,
- warren ellis,
- wtf
Interesting Links for 15-08-2013
- Blood in Your Eye: Why We Need Violent Stories -- Vulture
'we generally demonize violent acts and violent work. We make them Other, and we just distance ourselves. They are Other, and they didn’t come from us, and we’re just going to stand over there and shake our heads sadly. And, moreover, anyone who gets closer to it in order to experience or understand it must be a freak.'
- Gmail Users Shouldn't Expect Privacy, Google Says In Filing : The Two-Way : NPR
- Newsnight strips "porn user" of her PhD - The Media Blog
Spare a thought for academic Dr Jude Roberts who admitted on Newsnight on Wednesday night that she uses porn. A minute or so later the caption writers at the BBC had made the necessary changes to her billing and stripped her of her PhD.
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Interesting Links for 24-10-2012
- BBC News - Ex-Telegraph owner Black hints at return to Lords
Former media mogul Conrad Black has indicated he plans to resume his seat in the House of Lords, despite being convicted of fraud by a US court.
- How did Jimmy Savile get away with it? | Edinburgh Eye
(Trigger warning for discussion of rape)
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- awwww,
- bbc,
- brain meltingly cute i warn you,
- cats,
- computer games,
- computers,
- copyright,
- cute,
- fairy tales,
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- geeky,
- government,
- health,
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- mmmmm the lovely water that cures malari,
- mmorpg,
- nhs,
- politics,
- posttofacebook,
- relates to another of today's links,
- stupidity,
- technology,
- tongues or no tongues?,
- tv,
- uk,
- ukraine,
- via james graham,
- via zoe stavri,
- weird,
- westminster,
- what the everliving fuck,
- wtf,
- xandar; our reign has gone on long enoug
Interesting Links for 04-09-2012
- Infinite cats
A page of infinitely many pictures of cats (note to pedants; infinitely many cat pictures, not infinitely many *different* cat pictures)
- Sleeping Beauties Wait To Be Kissed At Ukrainian Museum
'To participate in the exhibit, potential princes have to sign a contract that states, "If I kiss the Beauty and she opens her eyes, I agree to marry her." The female performers have also entered into an agreement that reads, "If I open my eyes while being kissed, I agree to marry the kisser."'
- How copyright enforcement robots killed the Hugo Awards
Livestream of the awards ceremony shut down by automated robots due to the terrible crime of… showing clips of stuff that was nominated for an award.
- City of Heroes shutting down | bit-gamer.net
'set to close its doors by the end of the year and NCSoft is disbanding its developer, Paragon Studios.'
- BBC launches mobile downloads for iPlayer - Telegraph
will allow viewers to download programmes onto a smartphone or tablet, free of charge.
- Why Jeremy Hunt shouldn't be Health Minister
Because he supports the wastes of money that are the homeopathic hospitals.
- 3 top Tories call for NHS to be dismantled - Mirror Online
2009 story. Our health minister wants the NHS got rid of 'Three of his Shadow Cabinet - Michael Gove, Greg Clark and Jeremy Hunt - called for the health service to be dismantled. They claimed it was "no longer relevant"'
Interesting Links for 22-06-2012
- 21 Pictures That Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity
People aren't always awful. Sometimes, they're maybe even just a little bit wonderful. Here are 21 pictures to remind you of that fact.
- Emmeline Pankhurst - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Emmeline Pankhurst had ninja bodyguards. That is all. 'She tried to evade police harassment by wearing disguises and eventually the WSPU established a jujutsu-trained female bodyguard squad to physically protect her against the police.'
- BBC News - The evolution of those annoying online security tests
Am I the only one that doesn't find captchas to be particularly annoying? Sure, they take a moment to fill out, but they stop things being swamped in spam.