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Interesting Links for 30-10-2015

Paradox Buys White Wolf from CCP
So, a bunch more computer games rather than MMO's? An interesting development.
(tags: Interesting Gaming World-of-Darkness exalted geekery tabletop-RPGs computer-games )
Kitten videos: an engineering approach
'Kittens have a fairly well known failure state: they fall asleep. Sleeping kittens are adorable, but kinda boring' What's the solution? Make something that checks a whole bunch of kitten videos and plays the one with the most movement.
(tags: awwww cute Kitty! cats Awesome silly Internet programming clever )

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Interesting Links for 24-10-2013

Prince George rejects Christianity
He was also heard to comment "But *why* can't I call him 'not-Mum'? It describes him perfectly...
(tags: religion babies silly the monarchy Christianity amusing UK The Daily Mash )
Coding Horror: Why Can't Programmers.. Program?
(tags: computers jobs technology programming people suck )

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Interesting Links for 21-11-2012

World's oldest digital computer restored to former glory | bit-tech.net
The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) at Bletchley park has announced the switching on of the world's oldest working digital computer, the Harwell Dekatron, following the successful completion of a three-year restoration project.
(tags: programming awesome history computers technology science interesting )
Swedish woman charged for sexing herself with human skeletons
Warning: It's a story who gets off on bones. Nothing more explicit shown than her licking a skull, but still, not for everyone and possibly not for viewing at work.
(tags: semi-nsfw posttofacebook death sex weird wtf )
MPs' expenses: top Tory in secret deal - Telegraph
'A senior Conservative MP investigating Britain’s social care system secretly arranged for the owners of a chain of nursing homes to buy his London flat – which he now rents back at taxpayers’ expense'
(tags: posttofacebook Conservatives Westminster money politics image fail expenses scandal corruption wtf )
Gideon Levy: the most hated man in Israel – and perhaps the most heroic - Features, Life & Style - Belfasttelegraph.co.uk
For three decades, the writer and journalist Gideon Levy has been a lone voice, telling his readers the truth about what goes on in the Occupied Territories
(tags: posttofacebook image propaganda terrorism war Palestine Middle East Israel news important interesting )
BBC News - Nudity ban passed in San Francisco
City officials voted 6-5 in favour of banning anyone over five from exposing "his or her genitals, perineum or anal region" in most public locations.
(tags: America San Francisco nudity news )

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Interesting Links for 24-09-2012

The Profound Programmer
'[text: “HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found”, photograph of a lost, sad car sinking hopelessly into a river'
(tags: programming amusing geeky via Aquarion clever computers posttofacebook )

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Interesting Links for 05-01-2012

How the Candidates Roll - Graphic - NYTimes.com
The modes of travel and the entourages of the Republican potential nominees vary widely.
(tags: 2012 Presidential elections image culture transport politics America Republicans interesting )
BBC News - Loch Ness is giant 'spirit level'
Does that mean if we bash it on the ground a few times it'll work better?
(tags: via Andrew Ducker water science UK Scotland twitter interesting )
Management Myth #1: The Myth of 100% Utilization | Project Management
There was a time when it was important to get 100% utilisation of a company's computers, because they were so expensive. But now? That doesn't really work. And it doesn't work with people either.
(tags: programming computers management culture technology interesting )
What Video Games Can Learn from Board Games
'right now board games invite, whereas video games only permit.'
(tags: computers computer games RPG gaming geeky interesting )
Space Exploration History: The Space Shuttle and the Horse's Rear End
The width of the booster rockets for the space shuttle is partially determined by the width of the arse of a Roman chariot horse.
(tags: posttofacebook dude... awesome space history design technology SCIENCE!!! science amusing interesting )
Babes of the BNP | VICE
The stupid, it burns. Particularly "I wouldn't mind them if they actually worked and didn't take all of our jobs" That's an impressive self-contradiction to fit into a single sentence. Some of the pictures may be mildly NSFW.
(tags: semi-nsfw sem posttofacebook interview stupidity women politics BNP discrimination racism wtf )
Lord, spare us this wave of nerdy new scientists | This is Cornwall
Anti-elitism is making its way to the UK. Who needs all those physicists? Certainly not anyone who appreciates how MRI machines allow the easy detection or diagnosis of many sorts of health problem…
(tags: I do not agree with the page linked to braaaaaains culture anti-elitism people suck wtf )
From the Mailbag | Regretsy
Buyer disputes authenticity of the $2500 violin he's just bought? Paypal says to get a refund he must DESTROY THE VIOLIN!!!
(tags: posttofacebook money fail interesting internet music destruction dude... wtf )
‘Yes we know it’s Christmas’ say African musicians as they finally record a response to Band Aid - Hayibo | Hayibo
After 28 years of silently tolerating it, a group of unemployed local musicians have joined forces to release a Christmas single, entitled ‘Yes we do,’
(tags: parody charity Africa Christmas amusing )
This is What Happens When You Give Thousands of Stickers to Thousands of Kids | Colossal
A room done entirely in white. Many, many coloured stickers. Lots of children. The result? Something quite beautiful.
(tags: posttofacebook photos art colour image children via Andrew Ducker awesome interesting )
BBC News — Q&A;: Assisted suicide
'A group of experts have called for a change in the law to allow assisted suicide.'
(tags: medicine health death life law politics news interesting )
Brits' Unpaid Overtime 'Worth A Million Jobs'
'Workers gave bosses nearly two billion hours of unpaid overtime last year'
(tags: posttofacebook law UK culture employment work interesting )
Can we run PC Pro on tablets? Live blog
Is it viable to write articles, answer email & update magazine's blog via tablets?
(tags: computers geeky tablets technology clever interesting )

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Interesting Links for 01-12-2011

Ask Chris #81: Scooby-Doo and Secular Humanism - ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews
'I will fight tooth and nail over the idea that there should never, ever be even a trace of the supernatural in the world of Scooby-Doo.'
(tags: interesting belief comment tv cartoons via Andrew Ducker skepticism )
Gavin Mackey's Pokemon Redesigns Will Haunt Your Nightmares [Art] - ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews
'In Mackey's art, [pokemon] take an insidious turn toward resembling Renée French subjects or that creepy baby in David Lynch's Eraserhead.'
(tags: awesome art drawings cartoons pretty )
Comics, Everybody: The History of Captain America Explained - ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews
'Curt Franklin and artist Chris Haley of Let's Be Friends Again have broken down the history of Marvel Comics' esteemed Sentinel of Liberty. Read all about the fabled ascent of Steve Rogers from weakling to Nazi-smasher to Avengers Leader to head of S.H.I.E.L.D'
(tags: amusing geeky awesome comics )
EU: Copyright Doesn't Cover Functionality, Programming Language
'Yves Bot, an advocate-general at the Court, has stated that functions provided by computer programs, as well as the programming languages they're written in, do not receive copyright protection.'
(tags: copyright interesting law economics europe programming via Andrew Ducker intellectual property )
US judge orders hundreds of sites "de-indexed" from Google, Facebook
'After a series of one-sided hearings, luxury goods maker Chanel has won recent court orders against hundreds of websites trafficking in counterfeit luxury goods.'
(tags: interesting censorship law google copyright SOPA crime fail )
BBC News - Fahrenheit 451 becomes e-book despite author's feelings
Best line in the article? This: '"We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now," he said.'
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Paul McMullan lays bare newspaper dark arts at Leveson inquiry | Media | The Guardian
''Privacy is for paedos," declared former News of the World man and tabloid veteran Paul McMullan in the midst of his evidence at the Leveson inquiry. He had only just observed that "in 21 years of invading people's privacy I've never found anybody doing any good" – statements that together amounted to a credo for the brutal Sunday tabloid world of which McMullan became the chief spokesman in the otherwise stifled confines of courtroom 73.'
(tags: interesting journalism media notw Murdoch people suck via Andrew Ducker )
BBC News - Is £40,000 really a liveable income for families in the UK?
Perhaps a bad idea for them to lead with the family where the lady of the house "spends £10,000 every couple of years to buy a new car and likes to go on two or three package holidays a year." and yet complains of money being tight. The later couple who's café collapsed, leaving them with lots of debt, that I can more emphasise with.
(tags: money uk interesting via Andrew Ducker economy )
BUSTED! Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps • The Register
'…Trevor Eckhart showed how software from a Silicon Valley company known as Carrier IQ recorded in real time the keys he pressed into a stock EVO handset, which he had reset to factory settings just prior to the demonstration.'
(tags: wtf privacy security surveilance phones smart phones via Andrew Ducker )
BBC News - Ministers announce U-turn on mobility benefit cut
'Controversial plans to axe some benefit payments to disabled people living in care homes are being dropped.' Very glad to see this, as the plan to drop it felt very much like "If you're in a care home, you can stay there, you don't need to see the outside world"
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