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Interesting Links for 27-07-2016
Jul. 27th, 2016 01:00 pm- Viewpoint: The waste mountain of coffee cups
Effectively unrecycleable in the UK
Interesting Links for 19-09-2015
Sep. 19th, 2015 01:00 pm- Profound Decisions - Equality And Diversity
Doing it right. The games are created settings, so they can be gender neutral.
- Lidl can only afford living wage because of their extortionate pricing, insist business leaders
Interesting Links for 11-08-2015
Aug. 11th, 2015 01:00 pm- Google announces radical overhaul with creation of new parent company called Alphabet
Sounding ever more like a Cyberpunk megacorp
Interesting Links for 28-05-2015
May. 28th, 2015 01:00 pm- The Secret History of Ultimate Marvel
As someone who read much of the Ultimate Marvel universe, up 'till around Ultimates 3/Ultimatum, I found this really quite interesting. Makes me want to go back and dig up all the trade paperbacks and hardbacks I have of it.
Interesting Links for 29-04-2015
Apr. 29th, 2015 01:00 pm- Small Business letter to the Telegraph; an attempt to defraud the electorate?
Names repeated, people that are retired, not small business owners, people (and charities) that didn't sign it. Quite an impressive set of inaccuracies, all told.
- Thousands sign letter dismissing David Cameron as a ‘meat hamper-faced gobshite’
Seems a fair response to the other letter 'the signatories dismiss Conservative economic plans and say that the Tories are an assortment of git-brained wank hammers with about as much compassion as a hookworm.'
- A graffiti artist named Wanksy found a cheeky way to force his city to fix potholes
'It looks like Wanksy's work is yielding results. The road ahead may be long and hard, but as long as he keeps thrusting ahead, he'll get the satisfaction his city needs. And when he sees the hot liquid asphalt spurting all over the street, he knows it's worth it.'
Interesting Links for 15-11-2014
Nov. 15th, 2014 02:00 pm- Waiters face sack if they ask diners for cash tips
Well, I'll be defaulting to cash tips from now on. And probably somewhat avoiding the chain restaurants that do this shit.
Interesting Links for 13-06-2014
Sep. 2nd, 2014 07:00 am- All Our Patent Are Belong To You | Blog | Tesla Motors
'Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. If we clear a path to the creation of compelling electric vehicles, but then lay intellectual property landmines behind us to inhibit others, we are acting in a manner contrary to that goal. Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.'
- Sales of toilet paper plummet after delivery of free copy of The Sun
"…do you know what’s better than wiping your arse on a copy of The Sun?Wiping your arse on a copy of the The Sun that Rupert Murdoch had to pay to give to you.”
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 26-04-2014
Apr. 26th, 2014 01:00 pm- Zero-hours crackdown plan unveiled by Labour leader - BBC News
Reading the tenses of a story going into a future speech's contents in exacting detail gets rather confusing. "[Blah] would be harder" he will say, adding "…"
- Physics-exploiting axe splits wood in record time | News | Geek.com
SCIENCE AXE!
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Interesting Links for 04-04-2014
Apr. 4th, 2014 01:00 pm- Medieval Jokes
Various, often dirty, medieval jokes. Mostly worded in a way to somewhat hide the smut. It even has a 'your mum' joke in there.
- Texas Can't Kill Inmates Until It Reveals Where It Got Its Lethal Drugs
- Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO | The Mozilla Blog
Surprising. Good to see LGBT issues rating this level of importance/response.
Interesting Links for 07-03-2014
Mar. 7th, 2014 12:00 pm- Yahoo 2014 Purchases
A helpful illustration of what Yahoo have been doing with their corporate purchases in the wake of the purchase of Vizify, an infographic-making website.
Interesting Links for 05-03-2014
Mar. 5th, 2014 12:00 pm- Look at the logo on the right closely
Don't know how they did it, nor how long it will last, but I'm impressed. Edit: They fixed it. Here and here are a couple of news stories on what it was looking like before.
- The day the Dalai Lama hit the slopes in Santa Fe
Interesting Links for 04-02-2014
Feb. 4th, 2014 12:00 pm- Boris Johnson, not Bob Crow, is the one behaving terribly over the tube strike|Comment is free
'little is said of London's mayor breaking his promise not to close ticket offices'
- Ministers could slap VAT on Bitcoin trades
Interesting Links for 31-01-2014
Jan. 31st, 2014 12:00 pm- 25 People Who Are Really Confused As To Why Grant Shapps Follows Them On Twitter
It says that it's been happening since 2010. But he followed me in late 2009. Does that mean I'm a hipster now, as I got followed by Grant Shapps before that was mainstream…
- The truth about the origins of the Space Marines…
- HIV Positive Immigrants Should Be Banned From Entering UK, Tory MPs Say
tries to sell his amendment as wanting them to 'confirm their Hepatitis B status'
- Vintage Porcelain Covered With Hand-Painted Ants
- Booth Babes Don’t Work | TechCrunch
Someone compared a booth with 'babes' and one without for the same company at the same show.
Interesting Links for 22-01-2014
Jan. 22nd, 2014 12:00 pm- How to make sex 'more awesome' using Google Glass
'A new app developed at a wearable-tech hack day promises to show what your partner sees during sex - and means you could even turn off the lights with just your voice'
- Guest post: Matt Pennington on drugs, roleplay and validation. | LARP experience
The powerful effects of a piece of laminated card that tells you that you're high.
- Don't play Candy Crush Saga, for a while at least, because its creators are being dicks
Best way to make them notice is reduce their player numbers. They're claiming trademarks on the words 'Candy' and 'Saga', and going against utterly unrelated indie games that can't afford to oppose them in court.
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