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Interesting Links for 25-09-2013
Sep. 25th, 2013 05:00 pm- CivClicker
A graphicsless, button-based civilisation building game made by a friend. Horribly addictive.
Interesting Links for 17-07-2013
Jul. 17th, 2013 05:00 pm- BBC - Newsbeat - US issues 'athlete' visas to League of Legends players
'effectively recognising the video game as a professional sport.'
- Why Are UK Trans People Going on About a “Spousal Veto?” | Sarah Brown's Blog
Good summary of issues with the Spousal Veto in the Same Sex Marriage Bill.
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Interesting Links for 26-02-2013
Feb. 26th, 2013 04:00 pm- Trent Reznor Announces the Return of Nine Inch Nails: Extensive Touring for 2013 and 2014 | News | Pitchfork
"The band is reinventing itself from scratch"
- BBC News - Bank of England's Paul Tucker backs negative rates idea
'A negative interest rate would mean the central bank charges banks to hold their money and could encourage them to lend out more of their funds.'
- A man tried to rob a bank after paying $500 to a wizard to make him invisible
Photo appears to not be of the person in question; actually from http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-30-most-memorable-mug-shots-of-2009 'The man told the court, ‘I made a mistake. I understand now what a big trick was played on me.’'
- The 30 Most Memorable Mug Shots Of 2009
- BBC News - Valve boss Gabe Newell awarded Bafta fellowship
'for his outstanding contribution to video games.'
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Interesting Links for 10-12-2012
Dec. 10th, 2012 04:00 pm- Valve's Gabe Newell confirms the Steam Box project | bit-gamer.net
All that remains to be discussed: a release date and a price.
- All you need is love | The Atlantic
How to stop people dying for their country? Make them want to live for something.
- back of a spreadsheet; back of the net - On Lighting A Christmas Pudding
An informative guide! I don't like Christmas puddings, but I did like this guide to lighting 'em.
Interesting Links for 05-12-2012
Dec. 5th, 2012 04:00 pm- The PA Report - When pirates outnumber paying customers 10 to 1, online games die very quickly
- Why we don't nuke cyclones
'Needless to say, this is not a good idea.'
Interesting Links for 12-10-2012
Oct. 12th, 2012 05:00 pm- BBC News - World of Warcraft hobby sparks US political row
'Ms Lachowicz's liking for back-stabbing and poison in WoW raise questions about her "fitness for office", [Maine Republicans] claim.'
- 'Softball-Sized Eyeball' Washes Up In Florida; Can You I.D. It? : The Two-Way : NPR
- BBC News - New York's High Line: Why cities want parks in the sky
'Once an elevated freight railway track, New York's High Line is now an oasis for pedestrians.'
- BBC News - Looking back to the future of video games
'many developers have been looking backwards of late and spending their time resurrecting games that are five, 10 and 20 years old.'
- Terrifying French children's books - in pictures | Books | guardian.co.uk
They look awesome!
- Terrifying French children's books (with images) · jennycolgan · Storify
'But where is papa?' - more similar stuff
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Interesting Links for 04-09-2012
Sep. 4th, 2012 05:00 pm- 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"'
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- relates to another of today's links,
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- xandar; our reign has gone on long enoug
Interesting Links for 20-08-2012
Aug. 20th, 2012 05:00 pm- 6 Artists You Didn't Know You Were a Fan Of | Cracked.com
These guys were just farting around on the side when they accidentally created something that would impact the world for decades and decades to come. They impacted the art scene forever, and changed things in our world, infecting pop culture in astounding ways. And you have no idea who any of them are.
- Drunken Expat Writer - Paul Ryan Proving Evolution
The Republican VP nominee in three easy steps!
- OnLive closes, re-opens to avoid debts | bit-gamer.net
- The Five Fatal Flaws of Romney's Ryan Veep Pick | Tim Dickinson | Politics News | Rolling Stone
- New Statesman - Legal myths about the Assange extradition
A comprehensive rebuttal of the myths surrounding the Assange extradition. Via Ian Andrews.
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Interesting Links for 27-07-2012
Jul. 27th, 2012 05:00 pm- Impending Windows 8 'catastrophe' behind $3bn game maker’s shift to Linux - 27 Jul 2012 - Computing News
'Furthermore, Newell implied that Microsoft may be tempted to charge a monopoly rent or even close its platform to outsiders. Indeed, this is the only way that software will be downloadable to the Windows 8 RT version for ARM-based tablets.'
- Westminster city council launches free Wi-Fi network | Guardian Government Computing | Guardian Professional
And it'll actually stay on, and free, after the Olympics. Seems to be somewhat ad supported though, not sure.
- BBC News - Mitt Romney's vice-presidential contenders
- The Brilliant Booting Android Marriage Proposal
'Last month, Reddit user NoShftShck16 posted a seemingly random question to the /r/Android subreddit, asking if it was possible to slow down the boot time of a Galaxy Nexus. He explained that he had bought the smartphone and a ring, and he wanted to modify the bootloader to load a script at a rate slow enough for him to display his custom marriage proposal.'
- Graduates ‘urged to dumb down CVs’ « Express & Star
Graduates were apparently told that their qualifications actually deterred employers and advised to leave them off their CVs altogether to secure “survival jobs”.
- Exalted 3E: What We Know - Google Docs
A compilation of what has been said about Exalted Third Edition on the forums and elsewhere by those working on it.
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Interesting Links for 19-06-2012
Jun. 19th, 2012 05:00 pm- Valve Economics | Valve
The lead in post for their blog on economics; on how they came to have an economist in residence. Randomly, one of his books was published by one of the companies in the building my work used to be in (Zed books)
Interesting Links for 10-05-2012
May. 10th, 2012 05:00 pm- Cave Johnson’s Flaming Lemonade — The Garage
'“I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!” -Cave Johnson'
Interesting Links for 05-05-2012
May. 5th, 2012 05:00 pm- The Maelstrom Event Name Predictor
A predictor/random generator of the name of the next Maelstrom LARP event. (for the unititated, there's a tendency towards certain styles of names; Appropriation, Liberation, Retaliation, Reverence, Declaration, Apotheosis, etc)
- The Pirate Bay’s traffic increases by 12 million following UK ban | PC Gamer
'This probably isn’t what the British Phonographic Industry hoped to achieve.'
- Gizmodo - 'THEY FINALLY MADE A REAL LIGHTSABER!'
Not that you can actually fight with it without risking life'n'limb, or even turn it on without protective eyewear.
- Valve Steam, Source clients heading to Linux | bit-gamer.net
'confirmed that it is working hard on porting its Source game engine and Steam digital distribution service to Linux.' Not that suprised. More customers? Yes please, says Valve.
Interesting Links for 25-04-2012
Apr. 25th, 2012 05:00 pm- Good grades are key to cutting 'risky behaviour', says Gove - Telegraph
'Michael Gove said formal sex education lessons may not be needed if schools can raise pupils’ overall grades across the curriculum.' Dear person-who-is-in-charge-of-education-for-the-entire-bloody-country… I wish to introduce you to a simple statistical phrase; "Correleation does not imply causation"
- Google Drive: Hard to download, but free (as in beer) - Computerworld Blogs
This is the best look at the new Google Drive that I've found from a quick through the news, it even has a link for the sign-up (or rather, sign-up-to-be-told-when-they'll-deign-to-allow-you-it) page.
- Romney campaign spent $18.50 per vote - CNN
Romney spent a total of $76.6 million, far more than any other campaign. That total is, for example, more than the combined spending of Ron Paul, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich.
- BBC News - Twitter effect: How the hashtag has shaped political debate
'Some now argue the hashtag has come of age politically. It matters - whether you're on Twitter or not.'
- The Geeks Who Saved Prince of Persia's Source Code From Digital Death | Game|Life | Wired.com
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- xandar; our reign has gone on long enoug
Interesting Links for 16-03-2012
Mar. 16th, 2012 04:00 pm- Gamers pledge almost a million dollars for Wasteland sequel • reghardware
'Wasteland, released in 1988, was the inspiration for the Fallout series. Both games spearheaded by Interplay founder and famed games developer Brian Fargo.' Edit: It's already beaten it's funding goals (within a few days, impressively), so it's definitely going to be made)
- Announcing Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition
'work has begun on the Enhanced Edition of Baldur’s Gate and Baldur’s Gate II.'
- BBC News - Police commissioner elections: Millions without internet 'miss out'
"Only providing information about PCC candidates on a central website will disproportionately affect groups that have low levels of internet access, such as the elderly and those who live in rural areas."
- Scottish independence: Scotland must go into euro, expert claims - Politics - Scotsman.com
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Interesting Links for 20-02-2012
Feb. 20th, 2012 04:00 pm- Linear A - Sunday Sermonette: Pennies From Heaven
Quantum pennies; a rather good way of describing how some theists describe put over their beliefs. I particularly like the 'I'll meet you in the middle' bit.
- When did 8/10 become a bad score? | bit-gamer.net
'The first rule laid down to any new writer looking to publish a piece of work online should be this: do not take some of the comments to heart.'
Interesting Links for 18-02-2012
Feb. 18th, 2012 04:00 pm- Weird Recruiter Email - hol.istic.net
A rather strange recruitment email a friend received.
- Cannabis seized after pilot strays into Obama's airspace | World news | The Guardian
'It is an unwritten rule of drug running, but important nonetheless – if you're flying a small plane carrying a sizeable consignment of cannabis, don't stray into President Barack Obama's airspace.'
- BBC News - St James' Park graffiti: Michael Atkinson admits painting stadium
I love that he makes sure to mention that he *was* going to include the apostrophe.
- Spotify: 1 million plays, £108 return - News - Music - The Independent
That's what Lady Gaga earned last year from fans listening to 'Poker Face'.
- The artist vandalising advertising with poetry - Features - Art - The Independent
Interesting words, lovely typography.
- EA launching copies of Mass Effect 3 into Space, you can catch one
'using weather balloons, EA is launching copies of Mass Effect 3 into space, and gamers literally across the globe will have a chance a snagging one when they touch down on Earth.'
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- via #maelfroth,
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Interesting Links for 13-02-2012
Feb. 13th, 2012 04:00 pm- 4 'Geek Humor' Books by Authors Who Understand Neither | Cracked.com
The 'jokes'… why did I inflict them on my poor mind?
- BBC News - Expert challenges "myth" of falling NHS productivity
'Official figures have failed to reflect recent improvements in the NHS in England, according to the Lancet.'
Interesting Links for 27-01-2012
Jan. 27th, 2012 04:00 pm- The Busted Game Theory
Why do people like mechanically weak games, and dislike hard to break ones?
- Steam for Mobile Devices
I'm most interested in it for the chat capabilities, but may be useful for not missing deals. Currently in limited beta though.
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Interesting Links for 17-01-2012
Jan. 17th, 2012 04:00 pm- Today’s Greatest Thing Ever: Elevator Source | Rock, Paper, Shotgun
A Half Life 2 mod. That's all about an elevator.
- Cruise disaster: Captain leaves ship
... and coast guard order him back aboard to do his job
Interesting Links for 05-01-2012
Jan. 5th, 2012 04:00 pm- How the Candidates Roll - Graphic - NYTimes.com
The modes of travel and the entourages of the Republican potential nominees vary widely.
- BBC News - Loch Ness is giant 'spirit level'
Does that mean if we bash it on the ground a few times it'll work better?
- Management Myth #1: The Myth of 100% Utilization | Project Management
There was a time when it was important to get 100% utilisation of a company's computers, because they were so expensive. But now? That doesn't really work. And it doesn't work with people either.
- What Video Games Can Learn from Board Games
'right now board games invite, whereas video games only permit.'
- Space Exploration History: The Space Shuttle and the Horse's Rear End
The width of the booster rockets for the space shuttle is partially determined by the width of the arse of a Roman chariot horse.
- Babes of the BNP | VICE
The stupid, it burns. Particularly "I wouldn't mind them if they actually worked and didn't take all of our jobs" That's an impressive self-contradiction to fit into a single sentence. Some of the pictures may be mildly NSFW.
- Lord, spare us this wave of nerdy new scientists | This is Cornwall
Anti-elitism is making its way to the UK. Who needs all those physicists? Certainly not anyone who appreciates how MRI machines allow the easy detection or diagnosis of many sorts of health problem…
- From the Mailbag | Regretsy
Buyer disputes authenticity of the $2500 violin he's just bought? Paypal says to get a refund he must DESTROY THE VIOLIN!!!
- ‘Yes we know it’s Christmas’ say African musicians as they finally record a response to Band Aid - Hayibo | Hayibo
After 28 years of silently tolerating it, a group of unemployed local musicians have joined forces to release a Christmas single, entitled ‘Yes we do,’
- This is What Happens When You Give Thousands of Stickers to Thousands of Kids | Colossal
A room done entirely in white. Many, many coloured stickers. Lots of children. The result? Something quite beautiful.
- BBC News — Q&A;: Assisted suicide
'A group of experts have called for a change in the law to allow assisted suicide.'
- Brits' Unpaid Overtime 'Worth A Million Jobs'
'Workers gave bosses nearly two billion hours of unpaid overtime last year'
- Can we run PC Pro on tablets? Live blog
Is it viable to write articles, answer email & update magazine's blog via tablets?
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