Interesting Links for 09-12-2015

So you want to write a dark spin on a fairy-tale…

(tags: writing fairytale )

FactCheck: is Saudi Arabia more extreme than ‘Islamic State’?

(tags: saudiarabia Islam Syria )

Awesome use of Wikipedia to scam your way backstage

(tags: wikipedia fraud funny bands )

The air that makes you fat

(tags: pollution weight insulin inflammation )

How Elmo Ruined Sesame Street

(tags: muppets age tv advice emotion )

Why we built Known

(tags: web opensource rights control community )

That time I was nearly burned alive by a machine-learning model and didn’t even notice for 33 years

(tags: nuclearweapons war Russia ai )

Which actor played the 9th incarnation of Doctor Who?

(tags: drwho funny )

Twitter Is Monkeying Around With The Order Of Tweets In Your Timeline

(tags: Twitter OhForFucksSake )

How a Jellyfish-Obsessed Engineer Upended Our Understanding of Swimming

(tags: swimming engineering design )

Finland’s experimental government approach is why it can implement a basic income experiment

(tags: Finland research experiment government )

Ironically, modern surveillance states are baffled by people who change countries

(tags: computers epicfail location nationality Google )

Being homeless a struggle — even with a $100,000 job offer (particularly when you were falsely convicted)

(tags: homelessness crime fail )

Why has Jar Jar Binks been banished from the Star Wars universe?

(tags: starwars viaDrJon )

Understanding Tony Blair, as explained by Tony Blair

(tags: tonyblair politics UK Labour )

Every so often, a journalist discovers the top 0.001% of game players can make money at it. (As with sports)

(tags: sports games competition money viaSwampers )

Judges rule that lying to the people who elect you isn’t strictly illegal

(tags: lies libdem law Scotland politics )

1984: When Women Stopped Coding

(tags: women coding computers patriarchy society )

The DWP is cutting a disability benefit that already leaves a third of recipients struggling to afford food

(tags: food welfare UK austerity OhForFucksSake )

Worldwide Smartphone Market Will See the First Single-Digit Growth Year on Record

(tags: phones technology growth )