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Interesting Links for 03-10-2015
Oct. 3rd, 2015 01:00 pm- Pope Francis: Kim Davis Is A Liar And I Don’t Support Her Bigotry
Admittedly, the Vatican didn't phrase it quite that way, but it's still good to know.
Interesting Links for 11-01-2014
Jan. 11th, 2014 12:00 pm- Try formalising a dress code and you will understand the importance of informal, cultural regulation.
- How useless is a Chocolate Teapot? - The Naked Scientists
http://www.plokta.com/plokta/issue23/teapot.htm - An alternative (less rigorous) approach.
- sorrelish: 7 Reasons Why You Should Stop Bitching About People On Benefits.
- Woman claims lawyers should have told her divorce would end her marriage - Home News - UK - The Independent
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Interesting Links for 19-12-2013
Dec. 19th, 2013 04:00 pm- 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.
Interesting Links for 04-09-2013
Sep. 4th, 2013 06:00 pm- 8 Ruined Cities That Remain a Mystery to This Day
'Even if we know who built them, certain aspects of the city may simply defy comprehension in the modern age. Here are 8 ancient cities that we may never fully understand.'
- BPAL Debuts New Dark Crystal Scents At DragonCon
I mean, who *doesn't* want to smell like a Skeksis?
- Outrage over Brighton bondage bridal fair (From The Argus)
"From a Catholic point of view, marriage is sacred and I think dressing up in fantasy outfits risks damaging that."
Interesting Links for 19-08-2013
Aug. 19th, 2013 05:00 pm- Doctor Who Phrases from your waiter; how to get more tips (and sometimes confuse)
- Ubuntu sets crowdfund pledge record for Edge smartphone
Dear BBC; try and get someone who understands crowdfunding to write about it? 'Canonical would have to return all the money if it does not reach the target.' — no it wouldn't, as it doesn't *get* the cash unless it reaches the goal.
- Mexico politician: Gays shouldn’t marry ‘as they don’t face each other during sex’ | Gay Star News
Interesting Links for 16-08-2013
Aug. 16th, 2013 05:00 pm- www.themediablog.co.uk
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.
- 4 Copy Editors Killed In Ongoing AP Style, Chicago Manual Gang Violence | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
''graffiti tags in which the word “anti-social” had been corrected to read 'antisocial.''
- 27 Pictures That Will Change The Way You Look At The World
Ahh, data :)
- 'I said to Klaus Barbie: I want people to see your human side' | World news | The Guardian
'French lawyer Jacques Vergès has represented some of the 20th century's most notorious criminals.'
- Women who fear being forced to marry abroad told to hide spoon in underwear | World news | The Guardian
Charity advises women and young girls to set off airport metal detectors to give them more time to seek help from authorities
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Interesting Links for 17-07-2013
Jul. 17th, 2013 05:00 pm- BBC - Newsbeat - US issues 'athlete' visas to League of Legends players
'effectively recognising the video game as a professional sport.'
- Why Are UK Trans People Going on About a “Spousal Veto?” | Sarah Brown's Blog
Good summary of issues with the Spousal Veto in the Same Sex Marriage Bill.
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Interesting Links for 12-07-2013
Jul. 12th, 2013 05:00 pm- Children of unmarried parents to just run around doing murders
'ALL children born after 2022 will be born out of wedlock, and lead a life of devoid of any morals'
- A study of the Galaxy Song by Eric Idle
"And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space ..."
- Russia Says It Will Arrest Openly Gay Tourists | Travel and Escape
'Putin claims the law doesn’t discriminate against LGBT people, but rather—in an argument riddled with faulty logic—is there to “protect children from pedophilia.”'
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Interesting Links for 09-07-2013
Jul. 9th, 2013 05:00 pm- BBC News - Aye, robot: Scotland's rise of the machines
'Robots are to be placed into the homes of people with dementia as part of a pilot on the Western Isles, but it is just one of many uses machines are being put to in Scotland amid a wider debate on robotics.'
- Sex, friends and strangers: what to expect when you stop shaving
'he was normally too happy to have someone getting naked in his bed that he sincerely could not care less whether she had some hair on her body or not.'
- How new UK spouse visa rules turned me into an Englishman in exile | Richard Fabb | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
- Still no evidence for St John Ambulance's life-saving claim | Full Fact
Knowing first aid is good. But making claims you can't back up is bad.
Interesting Links for 24-06-2013
Jun. 24th, 2013 05:00 pm- Humanist marriage move could open way to surge in sham weddings, claim registrars - Telegraph
The people who currently do non religious marriages are bitching about the idea that other people might get to do 'em. Somehow, I think they may have a bias…
- Batman And Wonder Woman Costume Backpacks e - ComicsAlliance
Silly, but could be quite cool
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Interesting Links for 04-06-2013
Jun. 4th, 2013 05:00 pm- 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 22-05-2013
May. 22nd, 2013 05:00 pm- Legal recognition of humanist marriages blocked in Commons
Gits. IIRC the real reason is more about stopping more non-religious marriages, and other groups such as pagans getting in on the act.
Interesting Links for 24-04-2013
Apr. 24th, 2013 05:00 pm- BBC News - Same-sex marriage: France changes law
'becomes the 14th country to pass a law allowing gay marriage, and follows New Zealand last week.'
- Fox Censors Cory Doctorow’s “Homeland” Novel From Google | TorrentFreak
DMCA notices for a Creative Commons book. Faaaaaaaiiiiiiillllll.
- Clay Nikiforuk: I Was Detained and Interrogated at the Border for Carrying Condoms
- The Scale of the Universe
Rather awesome little flash thing showing everything from the universe to quantum foam
- Is your Twitter password secure?
'It's a scary world right now, guys. Your Twitter password can cause the Dow Jones to drop nearly 150 points and compel dozens of blogs to write breathless posts about the future of online journalism. You should be worried.'
- Russell's teapot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
'an analogy first coined... to illustrate that the philosophic burden of proof lies upon a person making scientifically unfalsifiable claims'
- Large Hadron Collider putting family-run particle colliders out of business
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Interesting Links for 04-04-2013
Apr. 4th, 2013 05:00 pm- Same-Sex Marriage Does Threaten “Traditional” Marriage | Nursing Clio
Because it shows the lack of necessity of the traditional gender roles.
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Interesting Links for 27-03-2013
Mar. 27th, 2013 04:00 pm- 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 19-03-2013
Mar. 19th, 2013 04:00 pm- 'New Banksy' appears at site of 'stolen' mural - ITV News
"A stencil image of a rat holding a card saying 'Why?' "
- National Security Letters ruled unconstitutional • The Register
'A federal court judge has ruled that National Security Letters (NSLs) – the controversial, ultra-clandestine surveillance tools used by the FBI to gather information on individuals – are unconstitutional and must be halted.'
- Don’t let Jedi Knights hold weddings - Free Church - Scotland - Scotsman.com
May your marriage be with you, always.
- Nadine Dorries: Tory party is looking 'silly and ridiculous' for suspending me - Telegraph
Does she really think these comments will help? Nope. She thinks they'll get her media attention.
- Train Wi-Fi and mobile access expected to be in Osborne's budget giveaway | Politics | The Guardian
Some 12 out of 25 rail franchise operators still don't have Wi-Fi – chancellor expected to offer an inducement to them to install it
- ‘Unwise to block free speech law’ at Stormont - Headlines - Belfast Newsletter
'he could think of no reason for Stormont blocking the Defamation Bill from Northern Ireland other than that politicians wanted “to be able to sue newspapers more readily”.'
- 10 Companies Chasing Innovations That Really Matter | Wired Business | Wired.com
- Innovator Under 35: Danielle Fong, 24 - MIT Technology Review
'Making clean energy pay off by storing it as squeezed air '
- Computer lessons in Vietnam
Computer classes start at age 7, programming starts at age 9
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Interesting Links for 11-03-2013
Mar. 11th, 2013 04:00 pm- Linear A - Sunday Sermonette: The Prodigal
The Catholic church is saying 'Welcome home!" to its lapsed members. But are they listening?
- Facing the future: an interview with Jim Al-Khalili | Rationalist Association
Theoretical physicist and star science presenter Jim Al-Khalili has just become the President of the British Humanist Association.
- Why should married women change their names? Let men change theirs | Jill Filipovic
- Ticking time bomb scenario - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
'a thought experiment that has been used in the ethics debate over whether torture can ever be justified.'
- David Cameron in peril as discontent in Tory ranks rises - Telegraph
'Up to 25 Conservative MPs are planning to oust David Cameron if the party’s fortunes do not improve within the next two months'
- Schneier on Security: Hacking the Papal Election
'As the College of Cardinals prepares to elect a new pope, people like me wonder about the election process. How does it work, and just how hard is it to hack the vote?'
- Scotland's top judge summoned to appear before MSPs after trying to block register of interests - Daily Record
'A Holyrood committee want the law chief to explain why he tried to halt a register which would reveal judges' business, professional and financial links.'
- 'If I turn a green field into an estate then I’m not doing it for peanuts' - Telegraph
'Three councillors reveal their involvement with consultancies which specialise in helping companies to win planning permission for developments across the country.'
- E.U. to Ban Cosmetics With Animal-Tested Ingredients - NYTimes.com
'expected to announce Monday a ban on the import and sale of cosmetics containing ingredients tested on animals and to pledge more efforts to push other parts of the world, like China, to accept alternatives.'
- Study debunks notion that men and women are psychologically distinct | The Raw Story
'there are not two distinct genders, but instead there are linear gradations of variables associated with sex, such as masculinity or intimacy, all of which are continuous.'
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