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Interesting Links for 24-08-2015
Aug. 24th, 2015 01:00 pm- Google ordered to remove links to ‘right to be forgotten’ removal stories
Don't forget to forget the stories reminding you what you've forgotten
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 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 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 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 25-01-2014
Jan. 25th, 2014 12:00 pm- German Olympians will wear rainbow-colored uniforms in Sochi
- Why sugar helped remove Victoria Line concrete flood - Telegraph
To stop the concrete they poured the sugar, to stop the sugar they poured the…
- Gmail And Google+ Go Down Across The World, Intermittent Outage Continues For Many | TechCrunch
It was down, it's now back up, for some at least
Interesting Links for 08-11-2013
Nov. 8th, 2013 04:00 pm- Swedish cinemas take aim at gender bias with Bechdel test rating | World news | theguardian.com
As has been said before, the Bechdel test is not an absolute; you can fail and be a pro-feminist film, or pass and be very misogynistic. It's more what it says about the proportion of films that fail it.
- YouTube aims to tame the trolls with changes to its comments section | Technology | theguardian.com
'The promise of a calmer, more constructive comments section on YouTube is, however, slightly undermined by the fact that the second comment in the top thread under the video explaining the changes includes a prominent ASCII penis.'
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Interesting Links for 01-11-2013
Nov. 1st, 2013 05:00 pm- BBC News - Ticket issued to driver wearing Google Glass
Except it was turned off...
Interesting Links for 15-08-2013
Aug. 15th, 2013 05:00 pm- Blood in Your Eye: Why We Need Violent Stories -- Vulture
'we generally demonize violent acts and violent work. We make them Other, and we just distance ourselves. They are Other, and they didn’t come from us, and we’re just going to stand over there and shake our heads sadly. And, moreover, anyone who gets closer to it in order to experience or understand it must be a freak.'
- Gmail Users Shouldn't Expect Privacy, Google Says In Filing : The Two-Way : NPR
- Newsnight strips "porn user" of her PhD - The Media Blog
Spare a thought for academic Dr Jude Roberts who admitted on Newsnight on Wednesday night that she uses porn. A minute or so later the caption writers at the BBC had made the necessary changes to her billing and stripped her of her PhD.
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Interesting Links for 02-05-2013
May. 2nd, 2013 05:00 pm- Top Ten Horrible Book Covers | Ramp.ie
Actually there's 34. But they're pretty funny.
- BBC News - MMR: How parents feel now about avoiding jabs
- Google Glass makes everything look like Knightmare
'Logan’s girlfriend Emma Bradford said: “We talked about buying a house and having kids but since he got these glasses his main goal has become finding a magical scroll.'
- How Not to Die.
When my mother was dying, her knowledge of the health system meant she could make her choices with open eyes and understanding. And I think we are better at having The Conversation here than they are in the US. But it's still something worth considering.
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Interesting Links for 09-04-2013
Apr. 9th, 2013 05:00 pm- Margaret Thatcher and misapplied death etiquette
'When a political leader dies, it is irresponsible in the extreme to demand that only praise be permitted but not criticisms.'
- Wearable Video Cameras, for Police Officers - NYTimes.com
- Alt Text: Magical Fruit Trees and the Sale of Digital Music — A Parable | Underwire | Wired.com
How much money does the anti-piracy efforts of the music industry make for *musicians* as opposed to the businessmen, lawyers, etc?
- Shodan: The scariest search engine on the Internet
"When people don't see stuff on Google, they think no one can find it. That's not true."
- Budge: Facing up to Facebook scams
'A Facebook page is created, with an appeal for readers to like, comment or share …the people who started it, having quickly acquired tens of thousands of followers, sell the page. Now an advertiser has all those names and Facebook addresses'
- The 17-Year-Old Yahoo Paid $30 Million Did Not Build His Startup's App (Or Invent Its Technology) - Business Insider
- Google accused of anti-competitive Android rules - Telegraph
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Interesting Links for 13-03-2013
Mar. 13th, 2013 04:00 pm- Google Glass is banned in Seattle bar months before launch- The Inquirer
'due to privacy concerns'
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Interesting Links for 26-09-2012
Sep. 26th, 2012 05:00 pm- Rush Limbaugh: Feminism shrinks penises - Salon.com
'the average size of [a male's] member is 10 percent smaller than 50 years — it has to be the feminazis, the chickification and everything else.'
- Future Projects - Angus Reid
'This project, built around the poem Call for a Constitution, stems from a personal quest to initiate a discussion around a constitution for Scotland.'
- Global Bacon Shortage 'Unavoidable' Next Year, Says U.K.'s National Pig Association
'With pork costs rising, Great Britain is facing a bacon and sausage shortage as pig farmers cut back on herd size. But the problem may soon become global.'
- Rick Perry Blames Satan For Separation Of Church And State | TPMMuckraker
'Rick Perry shared his thoughts on the origins of the constitutionally mandated separation of church and state. Rather than tracing the idea to the nation’s founders, Perry warned of a more nefarious source: Satan.'
- Clegg hints at split with Tories on Leveson - UK Politics - UK - The Independent
'Nick Clegg privately told members of the Hacked Off campaign group, including the comedian Steve Coogan, that there was nothing in the Coalition Agreement that prevented him from taking a different position on press regulation from the Conservatives.'
- Google Seaview
Rather awesome google 'streetview' of a coral reef.
- Outrage at CIA's deadly 'double tap' drone attacks - Americas - World - The Independent
'initial strikes are now followed up by further missiles in a tactic which lawyers and campaigners say is killing an even greater number of civilians. The tactic has cast such a shadow of fear over strike zones that rescuers often wait for hours before daring to visit the scene of an attack.'
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Interesting Links for 09-09-2012
Sep. 9th, 2012 05:00 pm- Drinks are on the house! Landlord outwits pub licensing law by asking customers to buy beer mats - UK - News - Evening Standard
'Drinkers are flocking to a bar that doesn’t need a licence because it doesn’t charge its customers.' (Came up in a discussion about LARP games where you can buy alcohol with IC currency.)
- Grant Shapps altered school performance entry on Wikipedia | Politics | The Observer
'New Tory party chairman Grant Shapps deleted O-level entry and information about donors to his private office'
- Google blacklists websites run by family of Grant Shapps | Politics | The Guardian
'for breaching its rules on copyright infringement. A string of at least 19 sites run by the wife, sister or 75-year-old mother of Shapps have been banned from carrying Google's adverts and been relegated to the bottom of its search results.'
- The rise and fall of Grant Shapps' Twitter followers | Politics | The Guardian
'It appears that Shapps, at regular intervals, increases the number of people he follows by as many as 5,000 and if they do not follow him back, he unfollows them.'
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Interesting Links for 15-06-2012
Jun. 15th, 2012 05:00 pm- BBC News - The future of Google Search: Thinking outside the box
Reminds me of the 'agents' in Charles Stross' books or Eclipse Phase; AIs that have a good idea of what you're interested in, go and look for it, and bring it back to you.
- Michigan bans women representatives for using the V-word - Telegraph
... in a debate about abortion. There's an argument that it was for the context of the use: "And finally, Mr. Speaker, I'm flattered that you're all so interested my vagina, but 'no' means 'no.'", but that's not an argument that the people supporting it seem to be using much; given comments like "It was so offensive, I don't even want to say it in front of women. I would not say that in mixed company." Also, I am wondering if the telegraph was trolling with their original title for this story: "Michigan bans women representatives for vagina use"
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Interesting Links for 30-05-2012
May. 30th, 2012 05:00 pm- Benefits claimant admits subsistence income scam
'AN unemployed man is scamming the taxpayer out of £67.50 a week, it has emerged.'
- Google facing new WiFi 'snooping' investigation - Telegraph
'its Street View cars secretly harvested emails, photographs and other personal data from WiFi networks.'
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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Interesting Links for 27-03-2012
Mar. 27th, 2012 05:00 pm- MPs try to overturn 'God can heal' ad ban | Total Politics
'they want the Advertising Standards Authority to produce "indisputable scientific evidence" to say that prayer does not work - otherwise they will raise the issue in Parliament.'
- May be months to stop North Sea gas cloud - Total | Reuters
'A cloud of explosive natural gas boiling out of the North Sea from a leak at Total's abandoned Elgin platform forced wider evacuations off the Scottish coast'
- BBC News - Google under fire in UK MPs report into privacy
'called on Google to introduce an algorithm to remove search links found to be in breach of privacy - or face legislation to force it to do so.'
- How GPs are set to make a killing out of NHS reform - UK Politics - UK - The Independent
'One in three who publicly supports change may have conflicts of interest'
- O2 forced to expose 'porn downloaders' - Telegraph
'personal details handed to a pornographer who claims they unlawfully downloaded his films'
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Interesting Links for 25-02-2012
Feb. 25th, 2012 04:00 pm- This is Why I Oppose the MPAA : SOPA
A powerful story of what the big companies do to the little people to get their way.
- Happy News - Real News. Compelling Stories. Always Positive.
News that makes you smile.
- How Bots Seized Control of My Pricing Strategy
'with “Turing Test” we have a delightful futuristic absurdity: a computer program, pretending to be human, hawking a book about computers pretending to be human, while other computer programs pretend to have used copies of it.'
- A good description of the problem with the TV/film industry, compared to the ease of piracy
- Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Year's End - NYTimes.com
'able to stream information to the wearer’s eyeballs in real time.'
- Doctor who criticised NHS reforms is threatened with disciplinary action | Society | The Guardian
He was told "You are bound by the NHS code of conduct and as such it is inappropriate for individuals to raise their personal concerns about the proposed government reforms."
- This is the worst reproductive strategy in the animal kingdom
'Between navigational problems, botanical problems, and the occasions when horny male parrots try to have sex with animals that can kill them, this is the most hopelessly inefficient reproducer on Earth.'
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