Interesting Links for 09-12-2017
- A guide to Bitcoin: The amazing investment based on dream gold invented by a wizard
- (tags: Bitcoin satire funny )
- Women can’t sing rock: The Middlesbrough bar which bans female-fronted bands
- (tags: women music OhForFucksSake ViaDrCross )
- Korea is obsessed with Bitcoin
- Also, I flew to Venice a few days ago and the in-flight magazine had _seven_ full-page ads for either Bitcoin or other blockchain/cryptocurrency technology.
I wonder how much more ridiculous things can get.
(tags: bitcoin ) - Couple Abandon Baby Because She Received A Blood Transfusion From A Transgender Woman
- (tags: india transgender lgbt viaSupergee OhForFucksSake )
- Theresa May’s Brexit deal ‘hard to reconcile’ with UK leaving the single market and customs union, EU says
- (tags: europe uk )
- Silicon Valley Is Hiring Models To Go Their Holiday Parties
- (tags: party Technology business women OhForFucksSake )
- A guide to Parliament’s Brexit tribes
- (tags: UK Europe politics )
- Healthcare for American Small Business Owners is Awful
- (tags: healthcare usa OhForFucksSake business )
- Learnings from a Mental-Health First-Aid course
- (tags: mentalhealth )
- My Lousy Children Are Both Fake Geeks
- (tags: children geekery funny )
- Trade talks will not start until February at earliest, EU tells UK
- Maybe by then we’ll know what we want out of them?
(tags: UK Europe trade ) - Does Socialism Make People Happy?
- (tags: socialism happiness europe )
- Lithium-ion battery packs are $209/kWh, down 24% from a year ago and 80% from 2010.
- (tags: batteries GoodNews )
- Americans have to put up with Square Dancing because Henry Ford was scared of “negro music”
- (tags: history dancing usa WTF racism )
- Photo-realistic lip-sync from text
- (tags: video technology voice )
- How Patreon Sees Things
- (tags: money CrowdFunding OhForFucksSake )
- How William Carlos Williams’s famous poem about plums in the icebox became a meme.
- My favourite:
Hwæt! þēos plumas þe in icebox wære swylce þu ge-saving hǽdfe for þæm breoc-fastum eaten hæbbe ic.
Me forgif mine gyltas for synnum minum Swæt wǽre swa swa ceoll frofer mannum.
Þæs ofereode, þisses swa mæg.
(tags: poetry meme )
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