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Interesting Links for 30-10-2015
Oct. 30th, 2015 12:00 pm- Paradox Buys White Wolf from CCP
So, a bunch more computer games rather than MMO's? An interesting development.
- 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.
Interesting Links for 18-09-2015
Sep. 18th, 2015 01:00 pm- Magic clock locates your friends
A digital version of the Harry potter clock. Perhaps a bit too much effort to actually make, but the general idea seems useful.
Interesting Links for 11-07-2015
Jul. 11th, 2015 01:00 pm- Welsh assembly asked about UFOs
Response: “jang vIDa je due luq. ‘ach ghotvam’e’ QI’yaH-devolved qaS.”
Interesting Links for 26-06-2015
Jun. 26th, 2015 01:00 pm- If Lord of the Rings was a Series of LARP Events
[Legolas fires an arrow.] Legolas: “Strike down!” [Arrow bounces off monster, who ignores it.] Legolas, noble elf, full of the grace and light of his people: “Fuck.”
- Avengers star Patrick Macnee dies
:(
- The Mad Max Furiosa comic, created entirely by men, is terrible about women
Le sigh. And after the film handled it so well.
Interesting Links for 30-05-2015
May. 30th, 2015 01:00 pm- The case for prescription heroin » The Spectator
‘Whatever gave you the idea folk in authority operate according to reason? Your trouble is you’re being rational.’
- Rickrolling is sexist, racist and often transphobic in context - Boing Boing
Interesting Links for 15-05-2015
May. 15th, 2015 01:00 pm- Shock and horror as BBC reporter accurately describes Nigel Farage
- Human Rights Act to be replaced with Warhammer rulebook
"If you are claiming a right to privacy, for example, we roll two twenty-sided dice to determine your score, take away any debuffs – low income, being foreign – and measure it against the government’s own total."
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Interesting Links for 09-05-2015
May. 9th, 2015 01:00 pm- The country is screwed, the electorate is evil ... but here are nine reasons to be cheerful
'We live on a coldly rotating speck in an ocean of total nothingness, and nothing we do can ever truly matter. All is blackness and abstract cruelty. There is no point to us, and soon we will be gone. The universe will spin on, oblivious.'
Interesting Links for 22-04-2015
Apr. 22nd, 2015 01:00 pm- We put a chip in it!
'It was just a dumb thing. Then we put a chip in it. Now it's a smart thing.' Smart socks! Smart luggage! Smart baby's dummy!
Interesting Links for 20-03-2015
Mar. 20th, 2015 12:00 pm- 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 04-07-2014
Sep. 3rd, 2014 05:00 am- Russia Moves To Ban Online Services That Don’t Store Personal Data In Russia | TechCrunch
Your government is in control. Go back to sleep.
- Hot water with bag floating in it not a cup of tea
“Drinks retailers treat coffee drinkers like cherished, fussy children, giving them a zillion pretentious, intricate options involving frothy milk and syrups. Tea drinkers, by contrast, get a cup of nuclear-temperature water with a deflated paper testicle floating on it."
- The motherfucker song.
An ode to the baddassery of Boxer Crabs
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Interesting Links for 28-06-2014
Sep. 2nd, 2014 11:00 pm- Petition to make Father Ted's 'My Lovely Horse' Ireland's Eurovision song turned down - News - Music - The Independent
'Irish MPs said they 'didn't have the musical expertise' to decide'
- Facebook tinkered with users’ feeds for a massive psychology experiment · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Facebook is playing with your emotions, because it can.
- GOP Candidate Charges Opponent Is Dead, Represented By A Body Double
'[His opponent] told KFOR however, that he has never been to the country where he's being accused of having been executed.'
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Interesting Links for 19-06-2014
Sep. 2nd, 2014 02:00 pm- Government bans all existing and future Academies and Free Schools from teaching creationism as science » British Humanist Association
I'd call that good news.
- Facebook down today, not working say users | Product Reviews Net
Probably will be back up before anyone reads this…
- Zuckerberg dies turning Facebook back on
'Internet user Tom Logan said: “That’s cool but I was momentarily inconvenienced so fuck him and Facebook, I’m 100 per cent Twitter now.”'
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Interesting Links for 03-06-2014
Sep. 1st, 2014 09:00 pm- Giant octopus stranded in Oxford Circus
Life ain't easy for cephalopod Londoners…
- Humpty Dumpty - Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Rhymes plus maths!
Interesting Links for 02-06-2014
Sep. 1st, 2014 08:00 pm- 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'
