The rusty bottle opener of truth
May. 23rd, 2013
05:00 pm - Interesting Links for 23-05-2013
- BBC News - Why the war between drivers and cyclists?
'A motorist's tweet boasting about hitting a cyclist created uproar when it went viral. What does it reveal about the battle on the UK's roads?'
- BBC News - Nick Clegg vows to introduce lobbying register by 2015
- Amazon Kindle Words Sell Fanfic. Yes, you read that right | The Mary Sue
May. 22nd, 2013
05:00 pm - Interesting Links for 22-05-2013
- Legal recognition of humanist marriages blocked in Commons
Gits. IIRC the real reason is more about stopping more non-religious marriages, and other groups such as pagans getting in on the act.
May. 20th, 2013
05:00 pm - Interesting Links for 20-05-2013
- BBC News - Yahoo 'to buy Tumblr for $1.1bn'
- Chicago Grid | Eight nerds get rich off a game that makes Oprah sob into a Lean Cuisine
'Cards Against Humanity has made well more than $12 million, all because some Highland Park 20-somethings wanted to avoid conversation.'
- Scotland's tough call: stay in the UK, or stay in the EU? | Angus Roxburgh | Comment is free | The Guardian
'It's the bad luck of the Scots. You wait a lifetime for a referendum, and then two of the damned things come along at once, each profoundly influencing the other.'
- Intervision Song Contest - Wikipedia
'The competition had an interesting way of voting. Because lot of citizens did not have phones, viewers would turn on lights if they liked the song or turned them off if they didn’t like the song. According to load experienced on the electrical network, points were granted accordingly to each contestant.'
May. 17th, 2013
05:00 pm - Interesting Links for 17-05-2013
- Heavy Metal degree
Want a foundation degree in heavy metal? Then go to Nottingham!
May. 15th, 2013
05:00 pm - Interesting Links for 15-05-2013
- The Future Is Here And Her Name Is Princess Monster Truck
- Cat enjoying licking hoover airstream - tumblr - In Search of the Happiness Max
Though unlike the person asking, I think it's obvious how they discovered the cat liked it.
- NoHomophobes.com
A visualisation of how often homophobic words are in a derrogatory fashion on twitter. This is a real problem, it hurts people.
May. 14th, 2013
05:00 pm - Interesting Links for 14-05-2013
- Batgirl Nightwing Wedding - Imgur
Impressive the lengths they they went to. Then again, if the Bat wants to play, we'll play...
May. 13th, 2013
05:00 pm - Interesting Links for 13-05-2013
- Details of surveys underpinning Michael Gove's assertion in Mail on Sunday re teenagers' lack of historical knowledge - a Fr...
Freedom of information request. Gove's stats suck, unsurprisingly.
May. 9th, 2013
05:00 pm - Interesting Links for 09-05-2013
- Ludicrous medieval pantomime may explain UK’s problems
'the bizarre 17th century pantomime could indicate a desire to live in a comfortingly demented fantasy world.'
- Opinion: Save criminal legal aid
May. 8th, 2013
05:00 pm - Interesting Links for 08-05-2013
- Belief in biblical end-times stifling climate change action in U.S.: study | The Raw Story
'Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL) said in 2010 that he opposed action on climate change because “the Earth will end only when God declares it to be over.” He is the chairman of the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy.'
- BBC News - Solar Impulse plane lands in Phoenix
A plane powered only by the Sun has completed the first leg of a journey that aims to cross the US.
- CNN Holds Split-Screen Interview in Same Parking Lot - The Atlantic Wire
May. 7th, 2013
05:00 pm - Interesting Links for 07-05-2013
- Ukip needs 24 per cent support to have just one MP after 2015 general election - Telegraph
(Semi-paywalled) 24% = 1MP, 34% = Commons majority. Thank you, FPTP.
- UKIP Analysis
The electoral analysis behind the Telegraph story
May. 4th, 2013
05:00 pm - Interesting Links for 04-05-2013
May. 2nd, 2013
05:00 pm - Interesting Links for 02-05-2013
- Top Ten Horrible Book Covers | Ramp.ie
Actually there's 34. But they're pretty funny.
- BBC News - MMR: How parents feel now about avoiding jabs
- Google Glass makes everything look like Knightmare
'Logan’s girlfriend Emma Bradford said: “We talked about buying a house and having kids but since he got these glasses his main goal has become finding a magical scroll.'
- How Not to Die.
When my mother was dying, her knowledge of the health system meant she could make her choices with open eyes and understanding. And I think we are better at having The Conversation here than they are in the US. But it's still something worth considering.
May. 1st, 2013
05:00 pm - Interesting Links for 01-05-2013
Apr. 30th, 2013
05:00 pm - Interesting Links for 30-04-2013
- Beware the rise of the government scientists turned lobbyists | CommentIsFree - George Monbiot
- 30 July – UK copyright: Accessing Orphan Works | Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
A response to the Register thing on 'your photos belong to everyone now' thing I shared yesterday. I probably give this more weight, partly because El Reg is unreliable, but also because I'm told the particular Reg reporter is especially bad.
- Jobseekers made to carry out bogus psychometric tests | Society | guardian.co.uk
- What happens when pirates play a game development simulator and then go bankrupt because of piracy? | Greenheart GamesGreenheart Games
In said game, the copies put on torrent sites (by the makers) had a crippling level of piracy make it harder to do well in the game.
- CosMARXpolitan
'Your va-jay-jay called! It wants to talk about anarcho-syndicalism'
- Train Loop - What If? - XKCD
'i will diminish, and go into the west, and remain a train'
- On the verge of testing human long term memory device and seizure prevention
- Overton window - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
'a political theory that describes as a narrow "window" the range of ideas that the public will find acceptable, and that states that the political viability of an idea is defined primarily by this rather than by politicians' individual preferences'
Apr. 29th, 2013
05:00 pm - Interesting Links for 29-04-2013
- UK.Gov passes Instagram Act: All your pics belong to everyone now • The Register
If your stuff doesn't have a clear owner (say, if its metadata has been stripped during upload), then commercial organisations can not only use it for themselves, but also sell it on.
Apr. 28th, 2013
04:57 pm - The joys of plumbing, again.
Well, that's irritating. Despite my attempts to drain it out, and to get any blockages out (I found a bit of gunk and a tiny bit of plastic, but nothing big/solid), my washer dryer is still stopping when it reaches the dry cycle.
I've rung the cheap plumber I know, but he doesn't do washing machines. I could try another not-too-expensive one, but the thing is probably about 10 years old, so I'm not sure how fixable it'll be, and the cost of plumber versus the cost of a new washer dryer probably ends up in favour of the new machine, given the old thing will likely just break down again if I fix it.
Anyone's thoughts, suggestions for new washer dryer models, or where to get such from, or a particularly cheap London plumber who'll do washing machines, all would be appreciated.
Apr. 26th, 2013
05:00 pm - Interesting Links for 26-04-2013
- Iron Maiden fans somehow immune to self-consciousness epidemic
'“In an age where literally everything has to be arch, knowing, witty or retro, Iron Maiden fans somehow still don’t give a fuck.'
- BBC News - Crews tackle blaze at National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
'The library has millions of books plus manuscripts, archives, maps, pictures, photographs, films and music.'
- If I Admit That 'Hating Men' Is a Thing, Will You Stop Turning It Into a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?
Rather good set of points on the supposed claims of 'misandry' not actually having the societal/cultural entrenchment that misogyny does, and that most feminists don't want men to have to have all the bad stuff they get through similar cultural entrenchments.
Apr. 25th, 2013
05:00 pm - Interesting Links for 25-04-2013
- 25 Photos You Need To Really Look At To Understand
'Ever notice how many things look like genitals at first glance?'
- Facebook Censors Users during Media Blackout on Privatisation of the NHS | Scriptonite Daily
Apr. 24th, 2013
05:00 pm - Interesting Links for 24-04-2013
- BBC News - Same-sex marriage: France changes law
'becomes the 14th country to pass a law allowing gay marriage, and follows New Zealand last week.'
- Fox Censors Cory Doctorow’s “Homeland” Novel From Google | TorrentFreak
DMCA notices for a Creative Commons book. Faaaaaaaiiiiiiillllll.
- Clay Nikiforuk: I Was Detained and Interrogated at the Border for Carrying Condoms
- The Scale of the Universe
Rather awesome little flash thing showing everything from the universe to quantum foam
- Is your Twitter password secure?
'It's a scary world right now, guys. Your Twitter password can cause the Dow Jones to drop nearly 150 points and compel dozens of blogs to write breathless posts about the future of online journalism. You should be worried.'
- Russell's teapot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
'an analogy first coined... to illustrate that the philosophic burden of proof lies upon a person making scientifically unfalsifiable claims'
- Large Hadron Collider putting family-run particle colliders out of business
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