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Interesting Links for 22-08-2015
Aug. 22nd, 2015 01:00 pm- Eter9 social network learns your personality so it can post as you when you're dead
CREEPY CREEPY CREEPY CREEPY!!!
- Paralyzed designer creates jeans for women in wheelchairs
- Gunman opens fire on Amsterdam-Paris train, wounding two people before being overpowered by two American soldiers who were on board
Interesting Links for 19-12-2014
Dec. 19th, 2014 12:00 pm- 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.'
Interesting Links for 23-10-2014
Oct. 23rd, 2014 01:00 pm- 50 sHAdes of VORpal — Kickstarter
What the fuck is this, I don't even… (appears to be a gaming version of potato salad)
- Soldier killed in Canada shootings - BBC News
Interesting Links for 01-09-2014
Sep. 5th, 2014 04:00 pm- 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.
Interesting Links for 07-02-2014
Feb. 7th, 2014 12:00 pm- Snipers Attacked A Silicon Valley Power Station Last Year And Nobody Told Us
So, this is what the Elf sniper and Dwarf Technomancer were doing, but what did the Troll street samurai and orc adept up to when this was going on?
- We wish Nadia and Masha well – but they're no longer part of Pussy Riot | Comment is free
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 02-06-2013
Jun. 2nd, 2013 05:00 pm- Why do Muslims keep having to explain themselves? We hate extremists more than any outsiders ever could - BelfastTelegraph.c...
- So Much For Fiscal Hawks - Republicans Now Costing You Tens Of Millions To Save A Few Million
Infrastructure maintenance. It's a thing.
- 5 Gamer Comments That Give Straight White Guys a Bad Name | Cracked.com
- Prague introduces singles only 'love carriages' on underground trains - Telegraph
- Only half of officers 'would report colleague who punched suspect' - Telegraph
'for fleeing and resisting arrest, figures showed, as senior officers called for a new code of ethics.'
- MI5 failures over Woolwich probably 'misjudgement' not lack of snoopers' charter, says Sir Chris Fox - Telegraph
'result of human misjudgement rather than lack of "draconian" powers to monitor email traffic, a former police boss said today.'
- 5 Brilliant Clues Hidden in the Background of Movies | Cracked.com
Contains spoilers
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Interesting Links for 18-04-2013
Apr. 18th, 2013 05:00 pm- Researchers Finally Replicated Reinhart-Rogoff, and There Are Serious Problems. | Next New Deal
That being the study that said you need to keep debt down to have good growth, and was used to justify all the austerity.
- Ricin scare rattles Washington
'laboratories are testing samples of a suspicious substance found in letters at off-site White House and Senate mailrooms'
- High Schooler Protests 'Slut-Shaming' Abstinence Assembly
- snopes.com: Van Halen Brown M&Ms
Signals. If someone can't get you a bowl full of M&Ms without any brown ones, they're probably going to fuck up some other bit of putting together a show that requires nine big trucks to hold its bits.
Interesting Links for 16-04-2013
Apr. 16th, 2013 05:00 pm- IDS cites "personal observations" to defend junk statistic
The amount of two-generation worklessness is tiny, there's not backup for three generation.
- Two explosions at Boston marathon finish line - latimes.com
'About three hours after the winners crossed the line, there was a loud explosion on the north side of Boylston Street, just before the photo bridge that marks the finish line. Another explosion could be heard a few seconds later.'
- Electoral Commission spends £55,000 on ice cream scoops and cats - The Commentator
And they copied Reform Cat!
- This Image Should NOT be Seen by the Whole World | How to be an Anthropologist
Misattributation of events seems to be a rising issue on social media
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Interesting Links for 14-04-2013
Apr. 14th, 2013 05:00 pm- The forgotten prisoners of America's own Gulag - The Independent
166 inmates remain. 3 convicted, 30 to face trial. 50 in legal no-man's-land, too dangerous to release but against whom there is not enough evidence to prosecute. And then there are 86 who have been cleared for release, yet aren't released.
Interesting Links for 10-12-2012
Dec. 10th, 2012 04:00 pm- Valve's Gabe Newell confirms the Steam Box project | bit-gamer.net
All that remains to be discussed: a release date and a price.
- All you need is love | The Atlantic
How to stop people dying for their country? Make them want to live for something.
- back of a spreadsheet; back of the net - On Lighting A Christmas Pudding
An informative guide! I don't like Christmas puddings, but I did like this guide to lighting 'em.
Interesting Links for 21-11-2012
Nov. 21st, 2012 04:00 pm- 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.
- 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.
- 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'
- 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
- 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.
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Interesting Links for 26-09-2012
Sep. 26th, 2012 05:00 pm- Rush Limbaugh: Feminism shrinks penises - Salon.com
'the average size of [a male's] member is 10 percent smaller than 50 years — it has to be the feminazis, the chickification and everything else.'
- Future Projects - Angus Reid
'This project, built around the poem Call for a Constitution, stems from a personal quest to initiate a discussion around a constitution for Scotland.'
- Global Bacon Shortage 'Unavoidable' Next Year, Says U.K.'s National Pig Association
'With pork costs rising, Great Britain is facing a bacon and sausage shortage as pig farmers cut back on herd size. But the problem may soon become global.'
- Rick Perry Blames Satan For Separation Of Church And State | TPMMuckraker
'Rick Perry shared his thoughts on the origins of the constitutionally mandated separation of church and state. Rather than tracing the idea to the nation’s founders, Perry warned of a more nefarious source: Satan.'
- Clegg hints at split with Tories on Leveson - UK Politics - UK - The Independent
'Nick Clegg privately told members of the Hacked Off campaign group, including the comedian Steve Coogan, that there was nothing in the Coalition Agreement that prevented him from taking a different position on press regulation from the Conservatives.'
- Google Seaview
Rather awesome google 'streetview' of a coral reef.
- Outrage at CIA's deadly 'double tap' drone attacks - Americas - World - The Independent
'initial strikes are now followed up by further missiles in a tactic which lawyers and campaigners say is killing an even greater number of civilians. The tactic has cast such a shadow of fear over strike zones that rescuers often wait for hours before daring to visit the scene of an attack.'
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- the coalition,
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- xandar; our reign has gone on long enoug
Interesting Links for 16-06-2012
Jun. 16th, 2012 05:00 pm- BBC News - Turkey: Kurd with lemon accused of supporting terror
'A Turkish prosecutor has demanded that a Kurdish man who is deaf, illiterate and unable to speak be jailed for 25 years for supporting terrorism.'
- Technology - Alan Jacobs - The Subtle Usefulness of 'NSFW' - The Atlantic
'How better to signal that content is objectionable without presuming anything about the individual you're warning?'
Interesting Links for 03-05-2012
May. 3rd, 2012 05:00 pm- World's Longest Invoice Unlikely to Be Paid - Businessweek
'designed to spotlight how common the problem of nonpayment'
- 'I'm being evicted,' says east London resident who blew whistle on missiles - London - News - Evening Standard
'revealed the government’s plan to locate an anti-terrorist missile system on the roof of his block of flats'
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Interesting Links for 27-04-2012
Apr. 27th, 2012 05:00 pm- Will Rupert Murdoch's reputation survive Leveson's verdict? | Media | guardian.co.uk
'Man who made millions out of paying people to ask difficult questions finally faced questioners he could not cope with'
- TCR Seige: Man Arrested After Tottenham Court Road Stand Off
They think it's all over. Is it, now?
- George Galloway slams rumours he has converted to Islam | Metro.co.uk
- Netherlands set to ban tourists from cannabis cafes under new ruling | Metro.co.uk
'Government officials plan to introduce a 'weed pass' for its citizens which they will need to enter city cafes.'
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Interesting Links for 12-04-2012
Apr. 12th, 2012 05:00 pm- Planning a trip to Canada or the Caribbean? US Immigration may have other ideas... - News & Advice - Travel - The Independent
'Even if the flight plan steers well clear of US territory, travellers whom the Americans regard as suspicious will be denied boarding.'
- BBC News - Tax avoidance: The most common schemes
- BBC News - Uzbekistan's policy of secretly sterilising women
'[the BBC] has talked to women sterilised without their knowledge or consent.'
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