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Interesting Links for 29-08-2014
Sep. 5th, 2014 01:00 pm- UKIP's Clacton Candidate Says He Won't Stand Down For Douglas Carswell
'prominent local UKIP activists say there is no guarantee that the local association is willing to adopt Carswell as their official candidate.'
- Panda Fakes Pregnancy To Get More Food | IFLScience
Interesting Links for 20-05-2014
May. 20th, 2014 01:00 pm- What is Twitch, and why does Google want it?
For the pokemons, obviously!
- The Lives of Sociable Spiders - NYTimes.com
It's about spiders, but no photos (one non-autoplaying video though). Some are bold hunters, some timid nurturers. The latter 'eventually liquefy their own bodies to nourish the next generation', so they're hardcore childminders!
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Interesting Links for 01-03-2014
Mar. 1st, 2014 12:00 pm- Surgeons shocked to find fully formed teeth in a baby's brain tumor
- Putting Time In Perspective
The T Rex is chronologically closer to Justin Bieber than to the Stegosaurus. Humans had fire for around 75,000 years before being able to talk about it.
- BBC News - Northern Lights or Aurora Borealis seen in Wales
The downside? You're still in Wales
Interesting Links for 18-02-2014
Feb. 18th, 2014 12:00 pm- Crystal Head Vodka Forensic Facial Reconstruction
Rather freaky. But awesome. And he's *so* happy!
- Large Pooh blocks Scottish sewers
Winnie, specifically.
- Britain somehow manages to drag itself away from the curling
'Millions of workers congratulated each other on their strength of character and pledged mutual support until they can rush home and immerse themselves once more in the icy drama.'
Interesting Links for 27-01-2014
Jan. 27th, 2014 12:00 pm- BBC News - Ukraine crisis: Peaceful negotiations 'futile'
- The secrets of Sloth-poo
- Mull of Kintyre test - Wikipedia
'an unofficial guideline said to have been used by the British Board of Film Classification to decide whether an image of a man's penis could be shown.'
- So You Want To Be A Writer For Evil Hat
'You’re in luck! We’re looking for a few writers for our plans over the next few years. To get your name on our talent list, you need to pass our evaluation. Details follow.'
Interesting Links for 21-01-2014
Jan. 21st, 2014 12:00 pm- Suspension of Lord Rennard
He'll be back in if he apologises, I think, but it's some action at least.
- Hero Forge wants you to design your own 3D-printable tabletop minis - Crave
'allows you to customise the race, gender, facial expression, pose, physical build, size (28-30 millimetres, three inches and six inches), hairstyle, armour and weapons of an existing base — rather like creating an avatar in an MMORPG.'
- Jet lag and night shifts disrupt rhythm of hundreds of genes, study shows
- Time to Bite The Ballot: National Voter Registration Day is coming | Metro News
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Interesting Links for 04-01-2014
Jan. 4th, 2014 12:00 pm- David Cameron's internet porn filter is the start of censorship creep | Laurie Penny
- Happy 40th birthday to Dungeons and Dragons | Mary Hamilton
- Facebook faces lawsuit for allegedly scanning private messages | PCWorld
'Swiss firm High-Tech Bridge, for example, reported in August it used a dedicated Web server and generated a secret URL for each of the 50 largest social networks, Web services and free email systems it was testing for their respect of user privacy.'
- I am the guy with two penises. AMA. — Reddit
NSFW text and links to NSFW images, duh. 'Just to summarize what we've learnt. He's bisexual. He's attractive. He's lives in a threesome. He likes fisting others and being fisted. He likes putting things down his urethra. He casually mentions the time six people had sex with him simultaneously. He shoots 12 times when he cums. Straight men magically turn bicurious around him. And on top of that, he has two penises. Well played, God. Good to know you didn't waste that extra penis on a prude.'
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Interesting Links for 19-12-2013
Dec. 19th, 2013 04:00 pm- 10 Reasons Coffee is Both the Best and the Worst Beverage Ever Invented
I'd imagine a lot of these would apply to tea too.
- One Weird Old Trick to Undermine the Patriarchy : The Last Word On Nothing
'My five-year-old insists that Bilbo Baggins is a girl.'
- This Man Came Up With 101 Uses For His Ex-Wife's Wedding Dress - Business Insider
- Anna in Frozen: Her eyes are bigger than her wrists.
Interesting Links for 06-09-2013
Sep. 6th, 2013 05:00 pm- A £5,000 cap on donations?
'Manifesto at 2015 general election expected to include pledge to 'take the big money out of politics' - but it has yet to reach a consensus with Tories and Lib Dems'
- Bacteria from slim people could help treat obesity, study finds | Society | The Guardian
'Experiments show microbes from thin or fat people's intestines can cause mice to lose or gain weight'
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Interesting Links for 02-08-2013
Aug. 2nd, 2013 05:00 pm- BBC News - Carry on camping - can a week under canvas reset our body clocks?
May be of interest to all the people I know who spend three to five weeks or more a year camping for LARP
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Interesting Links for 18-07-2013
Jul. 18th, 2013 05:00 pm- BBC News - How Scientology changed the internet
- Of Peaches and Cream: besturlonhere: June 7th, 1942: Edward Hopper...
'Edward Hopper completes his best known painting, the seminal Nighthawks. When asked by a Chicago Tribute reporter about the philosophical meaning behind the diner having no clearly visible exits Hopper responded, “Shit. Fuck. I did it again. Goddamnit. Fuck. Not again. I did it again. Shit."'
- Call to broaden register of lobbyists as new figures show extent of meetings | Politics | The Guardian
'Business ministers held 988 meetings with outside organisations in 2012, and just two with a formally defined lobbying company' To put it another way, the members of the PRCA (lobbying industry body) would be covered by the register, but if the PRCA itself lobbied, it wouldn't be.
- How did dinosaurs have sex? - Australian Geographic
'For an animal the size of Tyrannosaurus (14m long) to mate effectively, the male organ would need be in the order of at least 2m long, and a lot more if it happened to be cork-screw shaped like a duck’s.'
- Migrants needed to pay for NHS spending or Britain will go broke, says OBR - UK Politics - UK - The Independent
Immigrants are usually working age, and most of them do work, and thus pay tax. A lot of government spending is on children and the elderly, who are generally not paying much tax at that age. Thus, if net migration drops significantly, the deficit is likely to increase.
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Interesting Links for 15-05-2013
May. 15th, 2013 05:00 pm- The Future Is Here And Her Name Is Princess Monster Truck
- Cat enjoying licking hoover airstream - tumblr - In Search of the Happiness Max
Though unlike the person asking, I think it's obvious how they discovered the cat liked it.
- NoHomophobes.com
A visualisation of how often homophobic words are in a derrogatory fashion on twitter. This is a real problem, it hurts people.
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Interesting Links for 28-03-2013
Mar. 28th, 2013 04:00 pm- It's not just any two-headed shark. It's the rarest two-headed shark ever recorded
- Huge cyber attack, possibly slowing down general Web traffic
'a web hosting service lashed out at one of the world's biggest spam email blocking services.'
- Latest Japanese Schoolgirl Trend: Fake Dragon Ball Attacks
As covered on Kotaku yesterday, photos of schoolgirls doing faux manga style martial arts moves have been popping up on forums and threads in Japan. Those photos, however, are just the tip of the iceberg. Japanese Schoolgirls Bring Manga Style Martial Arts To Life for FunWhat looks like a Japanese manga come to life is really a bunch of schoolgirls having fun with… Read…This Lady Appears To Be FloatingBack in 2011, photographer Natsumi Hayashi burst on the scene. Her series of photos, which she… Read…RQ
Interesting Links for 19-03-2013
Mar. 19th, 2013 04:00 pm- 'New Banksy' appears at site of 'stolen' mural - ITV News
"A stencil image of a rat holding a card saying 'Why?' "
- National Security Letters ruled unconstitutional • The Register
'A federal court judge has ruled that National Security Letters (NSLs) – the controversial, ultra-clandestine surveillance tools used by the FBI to gather information on individuals – are unconstitutional and must be halted.'
- Don’t let Jedi Knights hold weddings - Free Church - Scotland - Scotsman.com
May your marriage be with you, always.
- Nadine Dorries: Tory party is looking 'silly and ridiculous' for suspending me - Telegraph
Does she really think these comments will help? Nope. She thinks they'll get her media attention.
- Train Wi-Fi and mobile access expected to be in Osborne's budget giveaway | Politics | The Guardian
Some 12 out of 25 rail franchise operators still don't have Wi-Fi – chancellor expected to offer an inducement to them to install it
- ‘Unwise to block free speech law’ at Stormont - Headlines - Belfast Newsletter
'he could think of no reason for Stormont blocking the Defamation Bill from Northern Ireland other than that politicians wanted “to be able to sue newspapers more readily”.'
- 10 Companies Chasing Innovations That Really Matter | Wired Business | Wired.com
- Innovator Under 35: Danielle Fong, 24 - MIT Technology Review
'Making clean energy pay off by storing it as squeezed air '
- Computer lessons in Vietnam
Computer classes start at age 7, programming starts at age 9
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Interesting Links for 18-03-2013
Mar. 18th, 2013 04:00 pm- How to do madness: An illustrated guide « zedkat
'how the media presents mental health'
- Inquest to open into death of prisoner convicted of stealing gingerbread man | Society | The Guardian
- BBC News - Richard O'Brien: ‘I'm 70% man'
"There are people who are hardwired male and there are people who are hardwired female, but most of us are on that continuum"
- Fujitsu smartphone can check your pulse - Telegraph
Bit creepy, no?
- Global warming denial: Debunking misleading climate change claims by David Rose.
The Mail on Sunday, getting it wrong, wrong, wrong.
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Interesting Links for 12-03-2013
Mar. 12th, 2013 04:00 pm- Antibiotics resistance 'as big a risk as terrorism' - medical chief
If anything, the risk seems rather larger than terrorism, in the UK at least.
- Capital rules for banks 'still need to be tougher', says Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards - Telegraph
- Dolphins may be calling each other by name - CNN.com
- Finally, a tablet simple enough for a woman to use | Ars Technica
'Do iPads or Nexus 7s scare and confuse you? ePad Femme is here to help!'
- The Sunday Times jails its source » Spectator Blogs
'My Guardian colleague Marina Hyde said that the lesson of the Sunday Times’ treatment of Pryce was that no one should talk to journalists.'
- Rape in the headlines: is there a war on? | Another angry woman
Trigger warning for rape, unsurprisingly enough. Discussion/disection of rape in the media ATM
- The religious right are wrong: all women have the right to choose | Liz Ford | Global development | guardian.co.uk
- KGB man will not assist British inquest into Alexander Litvinenko - Telegraph
'chief suspect in the poisoning of former Russian security services officer Alexander Litvinenko has withdrawn cooperation from the inquest into his death and accused Scotland Yard of political bias.'
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