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Interesting Links for 16-02-2016
Feb. 16th, 2016 01:00 pm- Diagnosing Dyspraxia: when clumsiness becomes a condition | The Student Newspaper
Minus the fact I've never even tried to learn to drive, this is very familiar to me.
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 21-05-2014
May. 21st, 2014 01:00 pm- Will UKIP make me Richer, or will UKIP make me Poorer?
AKA 'flat taxes are regressive'
- Disabled students could be 'shut out' by government cuts
Some of the support I got through the Disabled Students Allowance, particularly the PDA it got me, were a real help in getting myself organised, actually managing to make all the things I was supposed to, etc. I think I'd've had a much harder time without them.
- What If We Admitted to Children That Sex Is About Pleasure? - Pacific Standard: The Science of Society
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Interesting Links for 11-04-2014
Apr. 11th, 2014 01:00 pm- Like Civilization And Clicking Things? You'll Love CivClicker | Kotaku Australia
- A Tube map of London’s ghost stations
Suddenly I want to make or meet a bunch of NPCs named after these stations. "Ms Langley, Mr Waddesdon and Mark Lane are here to see you..."
- TFL Etiquette Posters Made More Honest | The Poke
- The great 1980s Dungeons & Dragons panic
They tried to cast Magic Missile against the darknes... in our hearts
- The code hidden in the books at the Western University library
What is art?
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Interesting Links for 22-03-2014
Mar. 22nd, 2014 12:00 pm- The problem with “We are all Oxford"
When people say they've experienced racism, it's not good to dismiss it with "But we're trying really hard!" or "But these other people haven't experienced that!"
- PHD Comics: Cosmic Inflation Explained
A rather good visual explanation of stuff to do with Cosmic inflation and gravitational waves
- “‘We Have Always Fought’: Challenging the ‘Women, Cattle and Slaves’ Narrative” by Kameron Hurley — A Dribble of Ink
'I’m going to tell you a story about llamas. It will be like every other story you’ve ever heard about llamas: how they are covered in fine scales; how they eat their young if not raised properly; and how, at the end of their lives, they hurl themselves – lemming-like - over cliffs to drown in the surging sea. They are, at heart, sea creatures, birthed from the sea, married to it like the fishing people who make their livelihood there.'
Interesting Links for 21-12-2013
Dec. 21st, 2013 04:00 pm- IAC's PR Chief Apparently Tweeted a Bizarrely Tasteless Joke About AIDS and Africa | Adweek
She's apparently 'unreachable on an international flight'. Going to have an interesting landing then. Company owns Match.com, OkCupid, Vimeo, Ask.com, Dictionary.com, & more.
- Students win LSE apology over ban on T-shirts depicting Prophet Mohamed and Jesus Christ - News - Student - The Independent
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Interesting Links for 10-12-2013
Dec. 10th, 2013 04:00 pm- Nobel winner declares boycott of top science journals
- Metal 3D printing and six key shifts in the 'second industrial revolution'
'From a 3D printer that you can build from stuff lying around the house to 3D printing steel, food or plastic in the home'
- Growing Up Unvaccinated - Voices for Vaccines
Someone growing up on a super-healthy diet/lifestyle, but still getting lots of vaccinateable diseases
- BBC disciplines Graham Norton for wearing AIDS awareness ribbon on chat show · PinkNews.co.uk
Do you make a list of approved symbols? Essentially the question is where do you draw the line on what stuff presenters are allowed to wear and thus show their support (and arguably plug) - e.g. political party rosettes during an election.
- Can young people influence Government policy by voting? | ampp3d
Politicians woo the grey vote, because it makes a difference. They shit on the young people, because they don't vote.
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Interesting Links for 05-12-2013
Dec. 5th, 2013 04:00 pm- Launch code for US nukes was 00000000 for 20 years | Ars Technica
The codes, known as Permissive Action Links were not the pals of Strategic Command generals.
- Minneapolis professor Shannon Gibney: Reprimanded for talking about racism.
'The American myth of rugged individualism is alive and well. We love to believe that nothing determines our life’s chances but our capacity to dream and work hard, despite reams of evidence to the contrary.'
- Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies
The effect of pricebots
- Missing: hard drive containing Bitcoins worth £4m in Newport landfill site
- Scotland's entire rail network shuts down and motorists told to stay at home | Herald Scotland
'serious travel disruption as blizzards and winds of up to 114mph strike.'
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- the code is more what you'd call 'guidel,
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- what the everliving fuck,
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- xandar; our reign has gone on long enoug
Interesting Links for 24-07-2013
Jul. 24th, 2013 05:00 pm- Say Goodbye to the Tech Sounds You'll Never Hear Again | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
- The 15 Most Ridiculous College Application Questions - Yahoo! Finance
"If you could choose to be raised by robots, dinosaurs, or aliens, who would you pick? Why?"
- 12 Silly Things People Believe About Computers | Terminally Incoherent
- US And Russia Simultaneously Announce Intent To Arm Opposing Sides In Syria - Yahoo! Finance
It sounds like a parody story, but its not. I wonder if Fantasy Flight could make an updated version of Cold War...
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Interesting Links for 31-05-2013
May. 31st, 2013 05:00 pm- “Why do women try to get ahead by pulling men down?” — LadyBits on Medium — Medium
A rather good metaphorical escalator
- Peter Mandelson joins board of Russian firm 'with organised crime links' | Business | The Guardian
- BBC News - Incapacity benefit test claims 'conflated figures' - watchdog
'Suggestions that 878,300 benefit claimants dropped their claims rather than take a medical test have been challenged by the statistics watchdog.'
- BBC News - Scottish independence: Dissecting legal advice on student fees post-yes
- Nick Clegg: we will strike a balance on 'snoopers charter' after Woolwich attack - Telegraph
'work is already under way within the civil service to resurrect some of the proposals without the need for legislation, meaning the Liberal Democrats would not be able to vote it down in parliament.'
- Motorola's tattoos could replace passwords for phones- Telegraph
- BBC News - Tory MP Patrick Mercer resigns
'has resigned the Tory whip to "save my party embarrassment" over a BBC Panorama programme alleging he had broken lobbying rules.'
- 33 Teachers Who Got The Last Laugh
I may have to use the Helen Waite one at some point myself.
- How attractive is Britain to ‘benefit tourists?
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Interesting Links for 17-05-2013
May. 17th, 2013 05:00 pm- Heavy Metal degree
Want a foundation degree in heavy metal? Then go to Nottingham!
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Interesting Links for 17-02-2013
Feb. 17th, 2013 04:00 pm- Are You Addicted to Job Hunting?
- Computer science students successfully boycott class final | The Johns Hopkins News-Letter
'all grades are relative to the highest actually achieved score. Thus, if no one showed up and everyone got 0 percent, everyone would be marked as 100 percent'
- Amazon 'used neo-Nazi guards to keep immigrant workforce under control' in Germany - Europe - World - The Independent
- Politician moves to make vulgar Photoshopping illegal | Technically Incorrect - CNET News
"No one has a right to make fun of anyone," he says.
- Hi, I'm Earnest G. Smith, Please Photoshop Me
Some NSFW pictures. A FB page dedicated to photoshopped pictures of the aforementioned American politician.
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Interesting Links for 15-01-2013
Jan. 15th, 2013 04:06 pm- Who is to blame for the farce in Whitehall? | Unlock Democracy
'Have we really not moved on from this vision of a government run by processes and procedures so convoluted that only the civil-servants have the power to control what’s really going on?'
- London Dungeon to sell unwanted stock - Telegraph
Think I'll be popping along to this. 'One of the capital’s most popular tourist attractions is to sell hundreds of its macabre props at a Pimlico car boot sale.'
- University investigation after explicit video of student safe sex ball posted on the internet - Telegraph
Ahh, Exeter. Went to a couple of SSB's during my time there. Via Katherine Fitton.
Interesting Links for 18-10-2012
Oct. 18th, 2012 05:00 pm- Scottish independence: Funding fees for EU students would cost £150m, Mike Russell reveals - Education - Scotsman.com
'The Scottish Government says talks are under way to find some means of charging EU students.' So, going against that whole EU equal access thing whilst saying "Of course we'll be let in!"
- Expenses scandal: MPs block details of new expenses - Telegraph
'believed to show that some rent their taxpayer-funded homes to each other.'
- Young blood can reverse some effects of ageing, study finds | Science | guardian.co.uk
As a friend put is: "Diablerme! Diableryou! Diablereverybody!" Possibly also 'Diablermice!' given the source.
