Interesting Links for 13-07-2016
- Why Is America Dotted with Giant, Concrete Arrows?
Because you mail yourself at night
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Interesting Links for 10-10-2015
- Charles Traub’s Lunchtime: A collection of portraits of strangers taken during the late 1970s
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
Interesting Links for 03-09-2015
- RIP, Time Cube
But there's still a guy called Alex selling immortality rings.
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Interesting Links for 10-07-2015
- I, Racist — "Why I don’t talk about race with White people"
- Border crossings no more
Photos of the closed border checkpoints of Schengen-ised Europe
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Interesting Links for 19-06-2015
- Roman "Swiss army knife"
Looks like my leatherman is now IC usable at Odyssey!
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Interesting Links for 10-12-2014
- Emily Brothers, the first openly transgender person to run for Westminster from a major party
- A brief history of trans parliamentarians « Complicity
Corrects the previous post with a list of other trans candidates
Interesting Links for 19-11-2014
- The first woman to run a marathon
(In modern times, registered, at least)
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Interesting Links for 18-09-2014
- 10 Lessons From Real-Life Revolutions That Fictional Dystopias Ignore
- What will happen if Scotland votes Yes?
Answers to important questions as we wait for Referendum day to dawn.
- Bus strike - Transport for London
Bus strikes tomorrow and Monday in South West London.
Interesting Links for 31-07-2014
- 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…
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- by-elections,
- democracy,
- history,
- interesting,
- links,
- london,
- military,
- money,
- politics,
- uk,
- ukip,
- war,
- weird,
- westminster
Interesting Links for 07-06-2014
- New Statesman | Tactical voting against Ukip is bad news for Farage
The Newark by-election saw centre-left voters hold their noses and back the Tories to stop Ukip.
- The bizarre secret of London’s buried diggers
And one day, they shall rise up, their shovels honed to a razor edge on the gravel they were buried in, inexorably driving toward us on their caterpillar tracks…
- D-day anniversary: emotional swansong for UK veterans of Normandy
We will remember them.
Interesting Links for 02-06-2014
- Edinburgh trams ‘worth 400 year wait’
'Original plans for the Edinburgh tram system were drawn up shortly after King James VI united Scotland and England into the Union of the Crowns in 1603'
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- advertising,
- amusing,
- art,
- cryptography,
- culture,
- d&d,
- gaming,
- history,
- interesting,
- internet,
- kotaku,
- links,
- london,
- nsfw-text,
- rpg,
- tabletop-rpgs,
- tfl,
- transport,
- university
Interesting Links for 11-04-2014
- Like Civilization And Clicking Things? You'll Love CivClicker | Kotaku Australia
- A Tube map of London’s ghost stations
Suddenly I want to make or meet a bunch of NPCs named after these stations. "Ms Langley, Mr Waddesdon and Mark Lane are here to see you..."
- TFL Etiquette Posters Made More Honest | The Poke
- The great 1980s Dungeons & Dragons panic
They tried to cast Magic Missile against the darknes... in our hearts
- The code hidden in the books at the Western University library
What is art?
Interesting Links for 04-04-2014
- 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 31-03-2014
- Black death was not spread by rat fleas, say researchers | Science | The Observer
'Evidence from skulls in east London shows plague had to have been airborne to spread so quickly'
Interesting Links for 22-03-2014
- The problem with “We are all Oxford"
When people say they've experienced racism, it's not good to dismiss it with "But we're trying really hard!" or "But these other people haven't experienced that!"
- PHD Comics: Cosmic Inflation Explained
A rather good visual explanation of stuff to do with Cosmic inflation and gravitational waves
- “‘We Have Always Fought’: Challenging the ‘Women, Cattle and Slaves’ Narrative” by Kameron Hurley — A Dribble of Ink
'I’m going to tell you a story about llamas. It will be like every other story you’ve ever heard about llamas: how they are covered in fine scales; how they eat their young if not raised properly; and how, at the end of their lives, they hurl themselves – lemming-like - over cliffs to drown in the surging sea. They are, at heart, sea creatures, birthed from the sea, married to it like the fishing people who make their livelihood there.'