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Interesting Links for 31-07-2014
Sep. 4th, 2014 08:00 am- Windows 95 Tips, Tricks, and Tweaks
Useful and informative!
- 17 Things Overheard In Glasgow
I don't wish to slander a city, but these are pretty fucking funny…
Interesting Links for 19-07-2014
Sep. 3rd, 2014 08:00 pm- How Google’s New Font Tries to Anticipate the Future | Design | WIRED
Design needing to be used across many different devices.
Interesting Links for 04-07-2014
Sep. 3rd, 2014 05:00 am- Russia Moves To Ban Online Services That Don’t Store Personal Data In Russia | TechCrunch
Your government is in control. Go back to sleep.
- Hot water with bag floating in it not a cup of tea
“Drinks retailers treat coffee drinkers like cherished, fussy children, giving them a zillion pretentious, intricate options involving frothy milk and syrups. Tea drinkers, by contrast, get a cup of nuclear-temperature water with a deflated paper testicle floating on it."
- The motherfucker song.
An ode to the baddassery of Boxer Crabs
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Interesting Links for 03-07-2014
Sep. 3rd, 2014 04:00 am- Hearthstone tournament explains why women aren't allowed to play
Because apparently the only way that eSports will be accepted as 'real' sports is if they unnecessarily ape the gender divisions of such.
- Facebook under investigation by UK data regulator following psychological experiments - Gadgets and Tech - Life & Style - The Independent
Glad it's being looked at. Hope some sort of ban/fine/punishment results.
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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 28-03-2014
Mar. 28th, 2014 12:00 pm- Homeopathic remedies recalled for containing real medicine
Which would actually make me sick! And another place wasn't doing enough to keep CRUSHED GLASS out of it, or the 'active ingredient' (which isn't actually active) in it
- 'Mordheim: City of the Damned' game coming out
Turn based tactical combat, with experience and equipment gain
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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 13-01-2014
Jan. 13th, 2014 12:00 pm- TV adverts to be just picture of thing, name of thing
“You’ll buy our product anyway. We only spend money on advertising because otherwise we would literally drown in cash.”
- "Threshold" to be Called Windows 9, Ship in April 2015
One wonders whether the inverse Star Trek rule will continue to apply (odd numbered versions of Windows are good, even numbered are crap)
- India Manages to Free Itself of Polio
Interesting Links for 08-01-2014
Jan. 8th, 2014 12:00 pm- Satanic Temple Unveils Design For 7-foot Statue In Oklahoma
'The Satanic Temple maintains that the Oklahoma Legislature's decision to authorize a privately funded Ten Commandments monument at the Capitol opened the door for its statue.'
- The British Punk Band That Fooled Reagan, Thatcher And The CIA - The Daily Beast
- The Internet of Things Is Wildly Insecure — And Often Unpatchable | Wired Opinion | Wired.com
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Interesting Links for 25-12-2013
Dec. 29th, 2013 05:54 pm- BBC News - Giant prehistoric toilet unearthed
'The 240-million-year-old site is the "world's oldest public toilet"' Though I don't think the saying is usually worded 'you don't poo where you eat', as the article suggests
- BBC News - Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The legacy of the teen heroine
'what is Buffy the Vampire Slayer's legacy and why there are so few "daughters of Buffy": strong and complex fictional creations, who aren't simply the sole female lead in a predominantly-male cast'
- BBC News - Queen Elizabeth Hospital surgeon suspended over 'branding' claim
A doctor has been suspended over allegations he "branded" his initials on to a patient's liver.
- BBC News - Cryptolocker ransomware has 'infected about 250,000 PCs'
Made me think; I'd really not care if it hit me. I'd just use another computer to google and ask friends about solving it, and use my antivirus to try and solve it. I've got pretty much fuck all that I care about that I can't retrieve, either from another computer, from cloud storage, or redownload from where I got it originally.
Interesting Links for 13-11-2013
Nov. 13th, 2013 04:00 pm- 19 Painful Truths Only Guys Who Can't Grow Beards Will Understand
Time has eventually furnished me with the ability to grow a beard that at least vaguely works, but for many years I bore this pain...
- What Is Cuil Theory? - Cuil Theory
1 Cuil: if you asked me for a hamburger, and I gave you a raccoon. 2 Cuils: If you asked me for a hamburger, but it turns out I don't really exist. Where I was originally standing, a picture of a hamburger rests on the ground. 3 Cuils: You awake as a hamburger. You start screaming only to have special sauce fly from your lips. The world is in sepia.
- House Prices In The North Vs. House Prices In London
'You could get this five-bedroom 18th century house WITH A LAKE in Yorkshire. Or this spacious one-bedroom apartment in Mayfair.'
- John Lewis Is The Most Patient And Polite Man On Twitter
- Palestinian villages subject to Israeli mock raids not told they are exercises
- BYO cutlery: why we should all carry our own knives and forks
- What are the Windows A: and B: drives used for? - Super User
How to make geeks feel old.
- Swedes Develop Invisible Bike Helmet
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Interesting Links for 24-10-2013
Oct. 24th, 2013 05:00 pm- Prince George rejects Christianity
He was also heard to comment "But *why* can't I call him 'not-Mum'? It describes him perfectly...
- Coding Horror: Why Can't Programmers.. Program?
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Interesting Links for 24-07-2013
Jul. 24th, 2013 05:00 pm- Say Goodbye to the Tech Sounds You'll Never Hear Again | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
- The 15 Most Ridiculous College Application Questions - Yahoo! Finance
"If you could choose to be raised by robots, dinosaurs, or aliens, who would you pick? Why?"
- 12 Silly Things People Believe About Computers | Terminally Incoherent
- US And Russia Simultaneously Announce Intent To Arm Opposing Sides In Syria - Yahoo! Finance
It sounds like a parody story, but its not. I wonder if Fantasy Flight could make an updated version of Cold War...
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- xandar; our reign has gone on long enoug
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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