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Interesting Links for 28-01-2017
- Dyspraxia can be serious – it deserves more recognition
It me (with less journalism)
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Interesting Links for 09-07-2015
- Tonight's Tube Strike Is Entirely Justified
It's more about needing limits on night work than the pay issues, and TFL made its last offer too late for the Unions to consult their members on it. Article is a point of view, but seems a fair point.
- LIVING WAGE FOUNDATION RESPONSE TO BUDGET 2015
“Is this really a Living Wage? The Living Wage is calculated according to the cost of living whereas the Low Pay Commission calculates a rate according to what the market can bear. Without a change of remit for the Low Pay Commission this is effectively a higher National Minimum Wage and not a Living Wage.”
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Interesting Links for 26-04-2014
- 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 12-03-2014
- Oh shit, say tube drivers
They need a new 'Person to Scare the Shit Out of Capitalists'
Interesting Links for 16-01-2014
- Kristen Stewart joins a "romantic" remake of 1984 because life is pain
- Amazon Warehouse Workers to Vote Today on Labor Union Representation | Re/code
- Britain could miss out on crazy, pointless war with China, says important American
“Your military will be dropping food from its only helicopter while the US Marines are surging towards Shanghai for reasons that will never be fully explained."
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Interesting Links for 15-11-2013
- Welcome to Dinovember
' Every year, my wife and I devote the month of November to convincing our children that, while they sleep, their plastic dinosaur figures come to life.'
- Boris Johnson accused of dodging responsibility over cycling deaths
Says there can be no blame or finger-pointing, then does exactly that.
- Men and Women Can't Be "Just Friends": Scientific American
Titled for the internet; more accurate would be "Men are more likely to be attracted to platonic friends, and to think it's recipriocated, than women are."
- The Glass Ceiling Illustrated in one 'Meet the Staff' page
Funnily enough, that page has now disappeared from the company's website.
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Interesting Links for 11-06-2013
- Exxon Mobil LGBT Discrimination Complaint: A Tale Of Two Applicants
Two candidates. One is noticeably better than the others in every area. But she has LGBT activism on her CV. She doesn't get invited in, the other one does.
- “Misogyny triangle”: why minor misogyny matters (@stillicides) | feimineach.com
- No, Texas Law Does Not Say You Can Shoot an Escort Who Refuses to Have Sex
Analysis piece argues that the jury likely acquit because the defence argued that shooter fired at tires, and a fragment hit the escort, making it manslaughter not murder, with neither prosecution or judge giving the jury the option to convict on that.
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Interesting Links for 04-06-2013
- Germany drops its longest word: Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz - Telegraph
'the 63-letter long title of a law regulating the testing of beef, has officially ceased to exist.'
- Recruitment site only offers jobs to beautiful people - Telegraph
- Let your child try and fail before trying to help, new Coaltion social mobility tzar tells parents: Telegraph
Yet no matter how much he says it, it's just not going to happen.
- BBC News - Gay marriage bill: Lords debate 'wrecking amendment'
And trot out all the same old tired & wrong objections
- seven reasons to maybe feel slightly better about things
Simultanously possitive yet downbeat webcmic
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Interesting Links for 27-03-2013
- Do four out of five people really believe in prayer? | Science | guardian.co.uk
No. 4/5 people are able to think up an answer to "What would you pray for?"
- David Miliband to quit as MP, taking up dream charity job in New York triggering South Shields by-election - Mirror Online
'intends to step down with immediate effect, triggering a by-election in May'
- BBC News - Brick up spare rooms, urges Labour MP Frank Field
'said landlords should "brick up" doors and "knock down the walls" in defiance.'
- Video: water appears frozen in sine wave - Boing Boing
- Police Issue ‘Scratch and Sniff’ Cards to Help Weed Out Marijuana Growers | TIME.com
- PGN-The Philadelphia Gay News. Phila gay news. philly news - Archive looking for Philly gay couple from 1950s ceremony
'they likely eagerly awaited the return of their photos of the big day — which they may soon finally receive, nearly 60 years later.'
- 21 graphs that show America’s health-care prices are ludicrous
'pay much, much more than other countries do for the exact same things'
- Ed Miliband to join Scooby Doo Gang
'admitted last night that his brother David becoming the head of International Rescue is more impressive than him becoming prime minister. But he now believes he can leapfrog his brother by joining an organisation that has a much better 'hit-rate' in apprehending evil-doers'
- South Shields: Why bother with a by-election?
It's been Labour since 1935, and in that time, only one MP there has had a local connection, he was the only one from there to not become a cabinet minster.
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Interesting Links for 17-02-2013
- Are You Addicted to Job Hunting?
- Computer science students successfully boycott class final | The Johns Hopkins News-Letter
'all grades are relative to the highest actually achieved score. Thus, if no one showed up and everyone got 0 percent, everyone would be marked as 100 percent'
- Amazon 'used neo-Nazi guards to keep immigrant workforce under control' in Germany - Europe - World - The Independent
- Politician moves to make vulgar Photoshopping illegal | Technically Incorrect - CNET News
"No one has a right to make fun of anyone," he says.
- Hi, I'm Earnest G. Smith, Please Photoshop Me
Some NSFW pictures. A FB page dedicated to photoshopped pictures of the aforementioned American politician.
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Interesting Links for 16-01-2013
- BBC News - Police pay: Cuts and changes explained
'The Home Secretary is implementing a range of major reforms to police pay in England and Wales after two years of tense negotiations between officers and government.'
- Coulter: ‘Not a gun problem,’ U.S. has ‘demographic problem’ with non-whites | The Raw Story
'Ann Coulter is insisting that guns don’t kill people, non-white people kill people.'
- Security audit finds dev OUTSOURCED his JOB to China • The Register
'and was spending all his work time playing around on the internet.'
- Burchill slams Chorlton and the Wheelies
- Planet Earth Abandons Death Star Project In Face Of Superior Galactic Imperial Power | Star Wars Blog
'The overwhelming military superiority of the Galactic Empire has been confirmed once again by the recent announcement by the President of the United States that his nation would not attempt to build a Death Star, despite the bellicose demands of the people of his tiny, aggressive planet.'
- Tumblr: Arthur Novit,...
The Superman of the Subway
- The price of a peerage | Unlock Democracy
- Coalition For Equal Marriage | Support For Equal Marriage
Equal marriage is winning; 332 for, 126 against, 177 unknown, 15 neutral/nonvoting at the time of writing. Is your MP an unknown? Then write to them!
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Interesting Links for 27-07-2012
- 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 26-03-2012
- Richard Hanna, GOP Congressman, Tells Women To Give Their Money To Democrats
They're trying to remake the Equal Rights Amendment, which Congress passed in 1972 but has not yet been ratified by the necessary 38 states, which simply says that equality under the law "shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of sex."
- David Cameron reveals Tory donors dinners list - The Independent
So, a register of dinner guests is happening. How about decent register of lobbyists too? And while they're at it, a donations database that allows you to uniquely identify people.
- Senators want ruling on whether Facebook password requests are illegal
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- xandar; our reign has gone on long enoug
Interesting Links for 18-03-2012
- Daily Kos: Texas loses Medicaid funding in effort to spite Planned Parenthood
'the state would lose basic health and family planning services funding from Medicaid because it is in violation of federal law'
- 100 Real Tweets from Homophobes Who Would Murder Their Gay Child · homophobes · Storify
- Nano Ink 'Tattoo' Could Monitor Diabetes: Discovery News
"injectable nanotech ink" makes it sound like something out of Shadowrun or Cyberpunk (Edit: Old story, but variations on this are still being worked on)
- Why We Have to Go Back to a 40-Hour Work Week to Keep Our Sanity | Visions | AlterNet
'One hundred fifty years of research proves that shorter work hours actually raise productivity and profits -- and overtime destroys them. So why do we still do this?'
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Interesting Links for 13-01-2012
- LORD NORTON - STIRRING UP APATHY?
Apparently there's no interest in Lords reform. Despite over 4k people responding through one organisation alone on that subject
- Museum volunteer told to work unpaid at Poundland | Third Sector
- Dead Teen Sued for Losing Control of Flying Body Parts | The Stir
'an appeals court in Illinois recently ruled that a woman is allowed to sue a dead teen's estate for injuries caused by his flying body parts.' The argument for it is in the private healthcare situation of the USA, it becomes much more necessary to sue when your injuries are caused by another person.
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Interesting Links for 05-01-2012
- 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?