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Interesting Links for 25-03-2014

Children Around the World With Their Most Prized Possessions
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The Morse code: No other actors will be allowed to play Colin Dexter’s detective after the late John Thaw - News - TV & Radio - The Independent
Written into his will; Endeavour was allowed because of the age difference, but nothing else after that.
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Interesting Links for 15-01-2014

Friendly Floatees - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1992, approximately 29,000 rubber bath toys fell off a cargo ship in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. And told us a lot about ocean currents
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Rest of Europe wants referendum on Britain
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Man Poses as Woman on Online Dating Site; Barely Lasts Two Hours
Before the barrage of aggressive come-ons drove him away.
(tags: sexism culture online-dating relationships people-suck )

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Interesting Links for 30-12-2013

Marks & Spencer Toy Store Gender Neutral | The Mary Sue
'Marks & Spencer has decided to ditch the gender-specific packaging that unfairly restricts toys by what gender they “should” be played with.'
(tags: Interesting gender sexism Marks&Sparks UK shopping children toys )
Parliament still has a long way to go if it is to be considered ‘family friendly’ : Democratic Audit UK
'many MPs are still finding it difficult to achieve a healthy life/work balance, putting off prospective candidates in the process'
(tags: politics UK Westminster culture family )
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It's a grammatically correct sentence about the attitudes of New York fauna.
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Interesting Links for 15-11-2013

Welcome to Dinovember
' Every year, my wife and I devote the month of November to convincing our children that, while they sleep, their plastic dinosaur figures come to life.'
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Boris Johnson accused of dodging responsibility over cycling deaths
Says there can be no blame or finger-pointing, then does exactly that.
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Men and Women Can't Be "Just Friends": Scientific American
Titled for the internet; more accurate would be "Men are more likely to be attracted to platonic friends, and to think it's recipriocated, than women are."
(tags: gender relationships love friendship innacurate title ahoy psychology )
The Glass Ceiling Illustrated in one 'Meet the Staff' page
Funnily enough, that page has now disappeared from the company's website.
(tags: amusing gender sexism discrimination employment )

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Interesting Links for 12-06-2013

Obama Is Checking Your Email
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Lego launches 'Incredibly Depressing Recession-Era Town Centre'
'chain pubs where hollow-eyed old Lego men sit drinking.'
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the Lampocalypse
'Ironically, it was a dark time.'
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Russian lawmakers pass anti-gay bill in 436-0 vote
'A bill that stigmatizes gay people and bans giving children any information about homosexuality won overwhelming approval Tuesday in Russia's lower house of parliament.'
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Ohio woman accused of breaking into home, cleaning it and leaving $75 bill pleads guilty - Yahoo! News
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Interesting Links for 16-10-2012

BBC News - Should Bank start the helicopter?
Will the giraffe accept the yo-yo? It's a discussion of a 'helicopter drop' of money into the economy, and a fairly good one at that, I just love the surrealness of the title.
(tags: posttofacebook financial crisis money economics quantitative easing amusing )
BBC News - Furby, aliens and jigsaws: Top toys get techy for Christmas
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BBC News - A Nobel Prize for beauty – and truth
'economics can be both deeply mathematical and abstract, and deeply practical - not to say hugely useful to public and private organisations all over the world.'
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‘Dredd’ shows why the 3D film format is doomed… again | Kieran Turner-Dave | Independent Arts Blogs
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World's biggest geoengineering experiment 'violates' UN rules | Environment | guardian.co.uk
'Controversial US businessman's iron fertilisation off west coast of Canada contravenes two UN conventions'
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Lobbying scandals: All of this has happened before and all of this will happen again. | Unlock Democracy
You could almost set your watch by it. A lobbying scandal breaks. The rest of the press pick up on it, and everyone’s furious.
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I Swear, You're Famous
'This is one man's ongoing quest to make obscene gestures near people better-known than him.'
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The Grind Haus, At Comic Con today, I went as Black Cat.
People at a con, being fail and misogynist at a female cosplayer. And her forthright and awesome response.
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