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Interesting Links for 23-03-2016
- Why Are There Buttons On Tube Train Doors?
A curiosity answered
Interesting Links for 02-09-2015
- Union suspends planned Tube strikes - BBC News
Not yet done and dusted, but the September strikes have been cancelled.
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- economics,
- employment,
- interesting,
- links,
- london,
- money,
- transport,
- uk,
- unions
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.”
Interesting Links for 26-03-2015
- Things You Learn When You've Lived In London For Five Years
Quite a few ones that hit the mark here.
Interesting Links for 19-12-2014
- Pub offers free Christmas dinner to homeless people
- Art Held Hostage: Why Sony Not Releasing “The Interview” Is Scary
'The Interview is a story about members of the media assassinating a North Korean leader. But the opposite happened: because of The Interview, North Korea assassinated our media.'
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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 01-09-2014
- There Isn’t A Specific Threat To London’s Tube Network, Despite What Your Text Messages Say
Has been shared a lot, but the police say it's bollocks.
- California Passes Affirmative Consent Bill; Rape Apologists Retreat Into Fantasy | Autostraddle
Trigger warning for discussion of rape, though it's discussed very much from just the consent side.
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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 03-06-2014
- Giant octopus stranded in Oxford Circus
Life ain't easy for cephalopod Londoners…
- Humpty Dumpty - Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Rhymes plus maths!
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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 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'
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- amusing,
- employment,
- links,
- london,
- parody,
- politics,
- the-daily-mash,
- uk,
- unions
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 12-02-2014
- Unions suspend tube strike after reaching deal
Deal is 'let's talk about things some more'. I'll also note that the last line is a bit inaccurate AIUI — there'll be no compulsory redundancies if there are enough voluntary ones.
Interesting Links for 05-02-2014
- Rare chance as Edinburgh swordsmith seeks apprentices
- Tube Strike Tube Map
Useful map that shows what'll be still be running during the strikes.
- Journalists at Sochi are live-tweeting their hilarious and gross hotel experiences - The Washington Post
Interesting Links for 04-02-2014
- Boris Johnson, not Bob Crow, is the one behaving terribly over the tube strike|Comment is free
'little is said of London's mayor breaking his promise not to close ticket offices'
- Ministers could slap VAT on Bitcoin trades