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Interesting Links for 24-04-2015
- InvisAbility Girl — On Passing as Disabled
Well written post explaining what it's like to have an invisible disability, when the world judges you on just what it can see. As someone who has both dyspraxia (clumsiness, disorganisation, other stuff), and hypermobility syndrome (double jointed to the point it's a painful problem), I very much agree with this.
Interesting Links for 20-03-2015
- Lighten Up
A strong point, and a beautiful use of design, image, and concepts like hexadecimal web colours on a post about colour, race, and racism
- British Views off the Solar Eclipse
I feel we've shared something important, as a nation.
Interesting Links for 20-02-2015
- 8 Things Some A$$#ole Says in Every Debate About Sexism | Cracked.com
"I'M ON FIRE!" "Actually, before we start, I think you should say you're violently oxidizing. Not all oxidization is bad."
Interesting Links for 17-02-2015
- Fifty Shades of Socialist Feminism
'“I’ll buy you a Lamborghini’ “I’d really prefer a tank.”'
- Stonewall to campaign for trans equality
A mere two and a half decades after its formation, and four and a half after the riots it was named for, which heavily involved trans people.
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Interesting Links for 03-12-2014
- Understanding is a three edged sword: Part one
MPs don't turn up to help people but do to help themselves? A rebuttal to a meme. Have been meaning to post this for a while, but seeing a rebuttal to this rebuttal reminded me.
- Understanding is a three edged sword: Part two
The rebuttal to the rebuttal. "Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth." But who knows the truth, in a matter of opinion, perception, and presentation.
- Three-Year Struggle to Get Chicago to Admit We Were Beaten by the Police
Interesting Links for 18-11-2014
- #Shirtgate / #Shirtstorm - a bunch of people being disappointed and saying "That's inappropriate", not a feminist lynch mob
Assuming this is an accurate representation (I've not searched myself), the guy in the stupid shirt hasn't been 'hounded', he's just very visibly worn an inappropriate shirt, thus had quite a few people react (fairly mildly) to it.
Interesting Links for 18-10-2014
- Sugar Puffs now 'Honey Monster puffs', slightly less sugary
Because sales are down
Interesting Links for 11-07-2014
- This Bike Elevator Makes Steep Hills a Little More Manageable - CityLab
- Trigger Warning: Breakfast — The Nib — Medium
Discusses rape. And the narratives our culture pushes us towards.
Interesting Links for 15-05-2014
- Why your pictures of naked chicks aren’t art | Charlotte Sometimes
NSFW for drawn breasts and a Rosie the Riveter wearing a strap-on.
- OAP offers armed but inept man attempting to rob bank £20 to leave
'A hapless criminal wearing socks over his shoes tried robbing a bank with a breadknife – just minutes after giving the cashier his full name and address.'
- Turkey mine disaster: grief turns to rage as hopes of finding survivors fade
Prime Minister uses examples from Victorian England to argue "These things happen."
Interesting Links for 17-04-2014
- Attractiveness of facial hair declines the more men adopt it and vice versa, study finds
Journalists assume that this means that *right now* we have reached peak beard.
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- disability,
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- diversity,
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- love,
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Interesting Links for 18-01-2014
- £1000 certification required to apply to join the Metropolitan Police
Which'll be a fairly massive obstacle to having a diverse force. Especially given that it's no guarantee of a job once you have it.
- I've Been Single For My Entire Life | Huffington Post
A fair bit of sympathy with this, given it's been quite a long time since my last relationship. Though I note it appears to ascribe to the 'Men approach women' cultural model without thinking about it.
- Hate crimes against disabled people soar to a record level - Crime - UK - The Independent
'Last year the Glasgow Media Trust found the public believed between 50 and 70 per cent of those on disability benefits were fraudulent. The actual number is likely to be between 1 and 2 per cent.'
- The Myth Of The Absent Black Father | ThinkProgress
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Interesting Links for 13-01-2014
- 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 19-12-2013
- 10 Reasons Coffee is Both the Best and the Worst Beverage Ever Invented
I'd imagine a lot of these would apply to tea too.
- One Weird Old Trick to Undermine the Patriarchy : The Last Word On Nothing
'My five-year-old insists that Bilbo Baggins is a girl.'
- This Man Came Up With 101 Uses For His Ex-Wife's Wedding Dress - Business Insider
- Anna in Frozen: Her eyes are bigger than her wrists.
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Interesting Links for 10-12-2013
- Nobel winner declares boycott of top science journals
- Metal 3D printing and six key shifts in the 'second industrial revolution'
'From a 3D printer that you can build from stuff lying around the house to 3D printing steel, food or plastic in the home'
- Growing Up Unvaccinated - Voices for Vaccines
Someone growing up on a super-healthy diet/lifestyle, but still getting lots of vaccinateable diseases
- BBC disciplines Graham Norton for wearing AIDS awareness ribbon on chat show · PinkNews.co.uk
Do you make a list of approved symbols? Essentially the question is where do you draw the line on what stuff presenters are allowed to wear and thus show their support (and arguably plug) - e.g. political party rosettes during an election.
- Can young people influence Government policy by voting? | ampp3d
Politicians woo the grey vote, because it makes a difference. They shit on the young people, because they don't vote.
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Interesting Links for 29-11-2013
- Sony files patent for vibrating 'SmartWig' - Telegraph
'would include ultrasound sensors, a camera and laser pointer, creating a subtle wearable computer than could provide sat-nav style directions or monitor your health'
- For Sale: A Scrooge McDuck Bank Vault With Enough Coins For Swimming | Geekologie
- Makeup Wizardry: Women's Faces Painted To Look 2-D | Geekologie
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Interesting Links for 25-11-2013
- The cutesification of everything makes me want to strangle an elf
'how many sleeps until Christmas? I should warn you that if you answered with a number – any number at all – then you're dead to me'
- One Woman's Dangerous War Against the Most Hated Man on the Internet
Fighting the Revenge Porn sites.
- The Neuroscientist Who Discovered He Was a Psychopath | Surprising Science
Now I want a scan...
- Breeds of metal brethren - Imgur
Amusing. But how about the breeds of metal sistren? Or drawings of both for each category?
- DC Noir | henriksahlstrom
Batman & some of his villians, with added Noir.